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While friendly towards fellow MPs, and evidently towards journalists also, the late David Amess MP was a Brexiter and a Roman Catholic: a member of the stupidest, most corrupt and most destructive faction of his perennially stupid, corrupt and destructive party, and a member of a church so ruthless, mendacious and avaricious that it numbers Tony Blair and Boris Johnson among its converts. Amess was a tireless campaigner for animal rights and a tireless opponent of women's rights and gay rights; he campaigned against fuel poverty and in favour of medical care for his constituents while happily voting through the legislation with which his bosses assaulted those on low incomes and vandalised the NHS. As befits a follower of Christ, he was in favour of capital punishment, though presumably not of the excessively populist variety by which he himself was assassinated. He was, with all due respect, eminently replaceable; and his replacement has duly vowed to continue his great work.