Did you mean cent?
Andrew Percy: ...such abuse, and one tweet that I received recently contained a very rude word. Following an appearance about Brexit on “Brexitcast”, one of the first responses I received was: “Utter, utter cunts the lot of you, even more stupid than a cunt.” That is the sort of abuse we are receiving, and it is happening in both directions on this issue. I do not agree with Nigel Farage about many...
Paul Masterton: ...cosmetic products. They were on the frontline when the community woke to find a swastika spray painted on the side of a sheltered housing block with the words—I apologise in advance—“Jewish cunts. Jews out.” In 2013, the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities published a report on “Being Jewish in Scotland.” They have since produced an update, entitled “What’s Changed about...
Mhairi Black: ...“the C-word”, but the reality is that there is no softening when I am targeted by these words: I am left reading them on my screen day in, day out. Someone said: “She needs a kick in the cunt”. I have been called “guttural cunt”, “ugly cunt” and “wee animal cunt”. There is no softening just how sexualised and misogynistic the abuse is. Some guy called William Hannah—I...
Baroness Jenkin of Kennington: ...Momentum and Labour activists yelling at her, and I quote—and please, my Lords, forgive the unparliamentary language and block your ears if you are sensitive or easily offended—“Fucking Tory cunt”. This young woman has a young child. How can this be acceptable? How does this not deter other mothers from stepping up? Her activists and volunteers were routinely spat at. They told an...
Mr Gilbert Mitchison: Yes, if the right hon. Gentleman likes. In Britain, the figure is 5½ per cunt., in Italy, 5·40 per cent.: in France, 6·05 per cent.; and in Western Germany between 12 per cent. and 13 per cent. They are on the low side by comparison, but it is nothing like the disparity in the employers' contributions. If one puts it in terms of the average weekly amount paid by an employer on behalf of...