Thursday 15th.Jun 2016
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Re: Thursday 15th.Jun 2016
It is brilliant to have your elected Member of Parliament hold weekly surgeries where you can go in and see them You can't do that in the US.
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Fiona Trott @bbcfionatrott 11m11 minutes ago
#Birstall: Man arrested being named locally as Tommy Mair. More on @BBCNews @bbc5live #JoCox
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It is unacceptable to have this civility taken away
it is unacceptable to use violence
it is unacceptable to use violence
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They might say something at 5pm - they've apparently scheduled a press conference for then. Elsewhere someone has tweeted they are worried by the way some presenters keep referring to Jo Cox in the past tense and hoping it doesn't mean anything.yahyah wrote:Even if the report is not eventually substantiated by the police, I reserve the right to be concerned about what Britain First activists are actually doing at their survival camps.
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Couple hours, darling.yahyah wrote:When's your lovely man back from work JA ?citizenJA wrote:I keep polished stones arranged on my desk and hold them
it comforts me
I write out 'love one another' and say it out loud
it comforts me
that's all I mean by it
this is profoundly disturbing to me, this news
absolutely devastating
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Almost definitely not a Muslim, then. That will disappoint some.rebeccariots2 wrote:Fiona Trott @bbcfionatrott 11m11 minutes ago
#Birstall: Man arrested being named locally as Tommy Mair. More on @BBCNews @bbc5live #JoCox
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There's a short video attached to that tweet.Ben @Jamin2g 7m7 minutes ago
Eyewitness tells reporters he didn't hear anyone shout "Britain first", saying: "Never heard that".
We'll just have to wait and see. It's awful regardless of why.
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Ugh, remember that happening before the official announcements were made for both Donald Dewar's and John Smith's demise. I fear the worstrebeccariots2 wrote:yahyah wrote: Elsewhere someone has tweeted they are worried by the way some presenters keep referring to Jo Cox in the past tense and hoping it doesn't mean anything
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Britain First, as nasty as they are, are just a side effect of what has become a very sick society.
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We may never find out why. He may not know why.
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Our MP, Philip Lee doesn't...citizenJA wrote:It is brilliant to have your elected Member of Parliament hold weekly surgeries where you can go in and see them You can't do that in the US.
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torrential downpour, thunder, lightening, darkness here now
it's not a metaphor
it's not a metaphor
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How on earth does he make himself available to constituents then Ohso? Or does he leave it all up to his case workers?ohsocynical wrote:Our MP, Philip Lee doesn't...citizenJA wrote:It is brilliant to have your elected Member of Parliament hold weekly surgeries where you can go in and see them You can't do that in the US.
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I thought that was by agreement?ohsocynical wrote:Our MP, Philip Lee doesn't...citizenJA wrote:It is brilliant to have your elected Member of Parliament hold weekly surgeries where you can go in and see them You can't do that in the US.
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Someone tweeted this exchange:AnatolyKasparov wrote:Almost definitely not a Muslim, then. That will disappoint some.rebeccariots2 wrote:Fiona Trott @bbcfionatrott 11m11 minutes ago
#Birstall: Man arrested being named locally as Tommy Mair. More on @BBCNews @bbc5live #JoCox
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NoSuddenMovements btl at the G mentions that Jo Cox was campaigning for remain in a dinghy on the Thames yesterday.
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Looks as if the attacker suffered mental health problems.
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I've never heard anyone refer to his case workers either. You have to write to him c/o HofP, and then he fixes up to meet you...According to another Labour member, he sometime's takes his father with him.rebeccariots2 wrote:How on earth does he make himself available to constituents then Ohso? Or does he leave it all up to his case workers?ohsocynical wrote:Our MP, Philip Lee doesn't...citizenJA wrote:It is brilliant to have your elected Member of Parliament hold weekly surgeries where you can go in and see them You can't do that in the US.
Apparently even our local Tory councilors don't like him.
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To be fair, that is from the AP, not written by the Graun. Just straight copy/pasted.AnatolyKasparov wrote:Refers to "Labour's poor performance" as well - in the local elections it was very much in line with previous outcomes a year after a GE.rebeccariots2 wrote:I read it earlier and thought how gratuitously shitty it was to include it in a supposed profile. The G seems able to scrape lower in the barrel that we thought.AnatolyKasparov wrote: Why on earth do they think all that is even remotely relevant right now?
And they accuse Corbynistas of being monomaniacal and obsessed.......
Just can't help themselves can they........
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Jo has gone.
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Jo Cox has died. BBC News.
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She's died
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Tory Andrew Mitchell gave her a lovely tribute, he is so obviously very moved as he speaks now.
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don't lock down the country, Cameron
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Re: Thursday 15th.Jun 2016
Bastard bastard bastard bastard. Please let this 'Britain First' thing be misleading. Please let him be just some ordinary, deluded, f***head.
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Condolences to all her family and friends. What a disgraceful , evil thing to have to suffer. Sad beyond words.
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Now being reported that the suspect subscribed to far-right sites........mbc1955 wrote:Bastard bastard bastard bastard. Please let this 'Britain First' thing be misleading. Please let him be just some ordinary, deluded, f***head.
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Dee Collins, the chief constable of West Yorkshire police...
"Jo Cox was declared dead by a paramedic at the scene, she says."
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Shattering news.
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If there was a political motive, what the terrorist wants is to instil fear, grief, anger and cause division. Hard not to let them win, whatever the ideology that drives murder.
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I'm trying not to judge until I know with any degree of certainty what I'm judging upon. On one level, what motivates such a man is irrelevant to the fact that a young woman, with much to offer, with two young children to bring up, has been killed, and that everyone who knew her has been hurt and damaged.RobertSnozers wrote:As with Orlando, how this scumbag justified the hate in his putrid heart does not interest me in the slightestmbc1955 wrote:Bastard bastard bastard bastard. Please let this 'Britain First' thing be misleading. Please let him be just some ordinary, deluded, f***head.
But we are a week away from a Referendum that holds enormous consequences to our country. And knowing whether or not this killing has something to do with that choice, has equally enormous consequences for this country and that future we are falling towards, headfirst, with frightening rapidity.
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Tory government don't mind using fear, division and anger.
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(cJA edit)mbc1955 wrote:But we are a week away from a Referendum that holds enormous consequences to our country. And knowing whether or not this killing has something to do with that choice, has equally enormous consequences for this country and that future we are falling towards, headfirst, with frightening rapidity.
I agree with you.
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I'm dreadfully sorry for her and her family, but have just realised, although I'm shocked, I'm not surprised, because I've had the feeling for weeks now that really bad things were going to happen. And someone losing their life is as bad as it can get.
Please let her death not be in vain. Let it be a wake up call.
Please let her death not be in vain. Let it be a wake up call.
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So cruel and unfair.Chris Ship @chrisshipitv
The children of @Jo_Cox1 are aged 3 and 5 years
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Re: Thursday 15th.Jun 2016
They will proud of their mum.
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Along with just about everything EU ref.Helen Lewis @helenlewis 4m4 minutes ago
Tonight's Question Time and This Week have been cancelled, BBC says.
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Too right - can we suspend the referendum "campaign" for the next bloody week please??
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And please stop us doing what happens in the States. A big outpouring of sorrow; demands that something is done, and then within a couple of days, it's business as usual.
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They'll barely remember her. Hope she has extended family who can help fill the gap in their little lives.yahyah wrote:They will proud of their mum.
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Bloody referendum. Whatever happens next week things won't be the same.
All done to pander to UKIP to win votes back for the Tories last May.
Bleeping Cameron.
All done to pander to UKIP to win votes back for the Tories last May.
Bleeping Cameron.
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It could be that it is totally unrelated to the issues around immigration or the referendum but I somehow doubt it. For the last few years we have been subject to wall to wall saturation of xenophobia and racism in the media, a PM reffering to refugees as swarms, Farage popping up on the BBC at any given moment to advertise his cause.
Until we know for sure what the murderer's motive was I'm keeping an open mind though, but there has been a climate which has been allowed to develop that a lot of people in high places should bear a responsibility for, I don't like the way things are going. Not one bit.
Until we know for sure what the murderer's motive was I'm keeping an open mind though, but there has been a climate which has been allowed to develop that a lot of people in high places should bear a responsibility for, I don't like the way things are going. Not one bit.
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W. Bush didn't lose the opportunity to use tragedy unrelated to justify a deadly military excursion elsewhere. Didn't take him two weeks, in fact.ohsocynical wrote:And please stop us doing what happens in the States. A big outpouring of sorrow; demands that something is done, and then within a couple of days, it's business as usual.
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It was her 42nd birthday next week as well - I'm sure preparations were well under way for that.
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Your post mirrors my own concerns. Exactly.TobyLatimer wrote:It could be that it is totally unrelated to the issues around immigration or the referendum but I somehow doubt it. For the last few years we have been subject to wall to wall saturation of xenophobia and racism in the media, a PM reffering to refugees as swarms, Farage popping up on the BBC at any given moment to advertise his cause.
Until we know for sure what the murderer's motive was I'm keeping an open mind though, but there has been a climate which has been allowed to develop that a lot of people in high places should bear a responsibility for, I don't like the way things are going. Not one bit.
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Very lovely tribute from her husband. From the G:
Today is the beginning of a new chapter in our lives. More difficult, more painful, less joyful, less full of love. I and Jo’s friends and family are going to work every moment of our lives to love and nurture our kids and to fight against the hate that killed Jo.
Jo believed in a better world and she fought for it every day of her life with an energy, and a zest for life that would exhaust most people.
She would have wanted two things above all else to happen now, one that our precious children are bathed in love and two, that we all unite to fight against the hatred that killed her. Hate doesn’t have a creed, race or religion, it is poisionous.
Jo would have no regrets about her life, she lived every day of it to the full.
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I feel for Rosina Allin Khan if she is elected as MP for Tooting later.
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Re: Thursday 15th.Jun 2016
citizenJA wrote:W. Bush didn't lose the opportunity to use tragedy unrelated to justify a deadly military excursion elsewhere. Didn't take him two weeks, in fact.ohsocynical wrote:And please stop us doing what happens in the States. A big outpouring of sorrow; demands that something is done, and then within a couple of days, it's business as usual.
On TV I heard him advise people to not worry and go do some shopping. About the most crass thing I think I've ever heard.
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