Tory MP killed in knife attack

[Pannonian]

Not yet officially confirmed (probably in the next hour), but Southend MP David Amess was killed in a knife attack at his constituency surgery.

[spmetla]

RIP to the MP. Seems like a good bloke too according to what the news was saying today.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Horrible event. This kind of political violence almost never begets anything good.

[Montmorency]

There was also the bow-and-arrow mass killing in kongsberg, Norway around the same time.

[spmetla]

RIP to the victims of that madman too.

[Pannonian]

WTF. Southend, the constituency of the MP, is to be given city status in his honour. Other than Tory angling for political gain, I'm not sure how it merits that status.