Brenda Leyland. Coroner's Court reconvenes on 20 March 2015.

[Eleanor]

I support exposure...no anonymous posting on the net...everyone takes personal responsibility for their views

I support that.  And it will come.

[Brietta]

Yes - he gave her the opportunity to explain herself on national tv.  You don't get a better opportunity to express freedom of speech to as wide an audience as possible than when a Sky microphone is thrust under your nose.  Brenda baulked.

I have a few opinions of my own which I would give my eye teeth to express in the full glare of publicity to the media ... the thought of the opportunity of an interview on Sky News with Martin Brunt or anyone else for that matter is the stuff of dreams.  They wouldn't have had a problem getting me to talk ... only in getting me to shut up.

Do you suppose Brenda Leyland's apparent reticence to speak on camera when given the opportunity to do so was because, as an intelligent woman, she was aware that her activities on social media were beyond the pale?

[Brietta]

I support exposure...no anonymous posting on the net...everyone takes personal responsibility for their views

I agree with that 100%.

I think people like Brenda Leyland would be more thoughtful about their on line ramblings if there was any possibility their neighbours and friends could see what they are really thinking. 

[Anna]

I support exposure...no anonymous posting on the net...everyone takes personal responsibility for their views

I agree.

[Mr Gray]

Yes - he gave her the opportunity to explain herself on national tv.  You don't get a better opportunity to express freedom of speech to as wide an audience as possible than when a Sky microphone is thrust under your nose.  Brenda baulked.

Brunt did Voltaire proud

[Lyall]

I agree with that 100%.

I think people like Brenda Leyland would be more thoughtful about their on line ramblings if there was any possibility their neighbours and friends could see what they are really thinking.

Borrowing from Ian Paisley: Never! Never! Never! Never! &%&£(+

You'd deliver us into totalitarianism with that policy.

[Alice Purjorick]

I have a few opinions of my own which I would give my eye teeth to express in the full glare of publicity to the media ... the thought of the opportunity of an interview on Sky News with Martin Brunt or anyone else for that matter is the stuff of dreams.  They wouldn't have had a problem getting me to talk ... only in getting me to shut up.

Do you suppose Brenda Leyland's apparent reticence to speak on camera when given the opportunity to do so was because, as an intelligent woman, she was aware that her activities on social media were beyond the pale?

Well if you recall and were paying attention at the time there were two video clips floating about one with Brenda mit die Leggings und ein anderer ohne die Leggings [or with and without leggings if you prefer]. That suggests two separate  occasions and an element of editing. On that basis it will be a wise man/woman who really knows the extent of what occurred.

[Alfred R Jones]

What I find hypocritical is anonymous internet users claiming "Je Suis Charlie".  Please don't latch on to the bravery and outspokenness of dead Charlie Hebdo cartoonists and journos to make you feel good about yourself from behind your own safe and cosy cloak of anonymity.  And what is even more heinous and vomit-inducing are those doing so as some sort of point-scoring exercise in the online war of words over Madeleine McCann.

[Mr Gray]

What I find hypocritical is anonymous internet users claiming "Je Suis Charlie".  Please don't latch on to the bravery and outspokenness of dead Charlie Hebdo cartoonists and journos to make you feel good about yourself from behind your own safe and cosy cloak of anonymity.  And what is even more heinous and vomit-inducing are those doing so as some sort of point-scoring exercise in the online war of words over Madeleine McCann.

well said

[stephen25000]

What I find hypocritical is anonymous internet users claiming "Je Suis Charlie".  Please don't latch on to the bravery and outspokenness of dead Charlie Hebdo cartoonists and journos to make you feel good about yourself from behind your own safe and cosy cloak of anonymity.  And what is even more heinous and vomit-inducing are those doing so as some sort of point-scoring exercise in the online war of words over Madeleine McCann.

and that is precisely what you are doing.

[Mr Gray]

Charlie...elle n'est pas ...would be more appropriate

[Alice Purjorick]

What I find hypocritical is anonymous internet users claiming "Je Suis Charlie".  Please don't latch on to the bravery and outspokenness of dead Charlie Hebdo cartoonists and journos to make you feel good about yourself from behind your own safe and cosy cloak of anonymity.  And what is even more heinous and vomit-inducing are those doing so as some sort of point-scoring exercise in the online war of words over Madeleine McCann.

Shouldn't that be Je m'appelle Charlie?
P'raps the senior mod will advise ? 
You clearly have a low nause threshold Alf. Or perhaps your nause threshold is selective ?
If they do or don't is San fairy Ann to most I feel.

[Lyall]

What I find hypocritical is anonymous internet users claiming "Je Suis Charlie".  Please don't latch on to the bravery and outspokenness of dead Charlie Hebdo cartoonists and journos to make you feel good about yourself from behind your own safe and cosy cloak of anonymity.  And what is even more heinous and vomit-inducing are those doing so as some sort of point-scoring exercise in the online war of words over Madeleine McCann.

Actually pretty nearly everyone crying "Je Suis Charlie", anonymously or not, is being hypocritical. Freedom is the freedom to say that, but the mob attacks those who don't share the majority's current emotional obsessions. Pretty much as davel attacked Sonia Poulton for her views on the Paris events (and me too, in a less hysterical way), and others on forums attacked her too. So you see nearly everyone is hypocritical in their own way.

[Eleanor]

Shouldn't that be Je m'appelle Charlie?
P'raps the senior mod will advise ? 
You clearly have a low nause threshold Alf. Or perhaps your nause threshold is selective ?
If they do or don't is San fairy Ann to most I feel.

Je Suis Charlie means To Follow.  Ca ne fait rien.

[Lyall]

It's actually surprising that events in Paris are being used in an argument against anonymity, since the creation of the French Republic depended on anonymous campaigning. As did the American, and every other progressive movement.

Removal of anonymity is the best tool any tyrant could ever wish for.