"put a sock in your mouth" means in the 1940-60s "shut your gob" in other words "shut up" stop talking. What you are saying is offensive to not mind your own business.

'You are just plagiarising Alan Jones'
true Mr Opinion certainly nothing new under the sun. Mind you put a sock in it was a very common saying for anyone over 25 growing up in Australia. Such false hurt feelings. Even the NZ PM showed a bit of class in her response rather than the loud mouthed vulgar leftist virtue signallers.

Her father died of shame
Put her in a sugar bag and throw her in the sea
Giver her a few good smacks
Shove a sock down her throat
And outside that London toilet block, no officer that is not what I was doing
Enough said

SR,

Thanks for expanding the etymology of the phase "shove a sock in it"

Now that we have cleared up that AJ was exhorting Scott Morrison to get Jacinda to shut up rather than to assault her, we can put this into context.

What is still interesting is that you consider criminal assault acceptable as long as it is "gentle"? Does this apply to sexual assaults such as a gentle fanny grab, or does this only apply to assaults on male conservatives?

You know what is funny about all this?
Everyone is acting as if all this is some kind of surprise and all the players are acting out of character.
I've got news for y'all, let's not forget who/what we're talking about.
POLITICIANS!

Dear Shadow Minister,

Trying it on yet again I see.

You write;

“Now that we have cleared up that AJ was exhorting Scott Morrison to get Jacinda to shut up rather than to assault her, we can put this into context.”

No, if he were doing that he would have exhorted SM to ask Prime Minister Adern to 'put a sock in it'. Instead he said he wondered if “Scott Morrison had been fully briefed to shove a sock down her throat”.

There is a vast difference between the two and for you to be claiming any kind of equivalence is pretty ugly stuff. On top of that he 'exhorted' SM to 'get tough here with a few backhanders'.

Why are you defending this?

As to the egging you will recall you where happy that the Galah who recklessly rode his horse though an area with children and ending up delivering suspected spinal injuries to a woman was 'let off with a warning'.

So a bit of egg on a politician is far more a hanging offence? Hypocrite.