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  • MP shot and stabbed in Birstall, W Yorks
  • mefty
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    News just breaking, awful news.

    EDIT: Link to local paper

    Pigface
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    Sounds very serious

    somouk
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    Does sound serious, just read they are saying two shot now.

    woody2000
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    That’s about 5 mins from me, just been wondering what the helicopter was doing. I’ll be staying inside for now! 🙁

    cinnamon_girl
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    Serious injuries and in critical condition. 🙁

    kimbers
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    Hope shes OK, one of the good ones!!

    PJM1974
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    This is really not good news at all.

    Forty-one and a mother of two…

    wwaswas
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    Attacker shouted ‘Britain First’ 🙁

    P-Jay
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    wwaswas – Member

    Attacker shouted ‘Britain First’

    Just read the same, maybe just a nutter looking for a cause like the twunt in Orlando who claimed he was acting for ISIS, maybe it’s one of the Britain First lot who were trainin in Wales last week which included “knife skills”.

    mintimperial
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    Horrific. Hope she’s ok and makes it through.

    bikebouy
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    Very, very sad news indeed.

    🙁

    igm
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    Seriously wwaswas? Do you have a source? I mean she was a remain campaigner and her husband had been counter protesting against leave on the Thames yesterday, but has the referendum really got to that point.
    There’s also suggestion it’s because she didn’t vote against air strikes on Syria.
    I guess the truth will come out eventually.

    wwaswas
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    Seriously wwaswas? Do you have a source?

    Mirror, SKyNews, MEN so far. all quoting ‘eyewitness’.

    P-Jay
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    igm – Member

    Seriously wwaswas? Do you have a source? I mean she was a remain campaigner and her husband had been counter protesting against leave on the Thames yesterday, but has the referendum really got to that point.
    There’s also suggestion it’s because she didn’t vote against air strikes on Syria.
    I guess the truth will come out eventually.

    Sky News are reporting it, but it’s just hearsay at the moment – I guess BBC will want more substance before they report it.

    P-Jay
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    igm
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    Ouch – sounding like the referendum maybe has got to that point.

    Whatever.

    For now, my best wishes to her, her husband and children. The rest can wait for later.

    craigxxl
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    A 10 minute walk from where I live so a little bit of a shock to here. My thoughts go out to her.

    igm
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    BBC are showing pictures of a white man being arrested.

    Which may or may not mean anything.

    franksinatra
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    I have always assumed that MP surgeries, are magnets for local nutters. Lots of security in Westminster but nothing in a local surgery

    P-Jay
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    I could hear a loud popping noise that sounded like a balloon burst – a loud balloon – and when I looked round there’s a man stood there in his 50s with a white baseball cap on and a jacket with a gun, an old fashioned looking gun in his hand, and he shot this lady once and then he shot her again, she fell to the floor, lent over shot her once more in the face area.”
    Clarke Rothwell

    Oh that’s horrific.

    neilwheel
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    It seems that he stabbed her a number of times afterwards too.

    SaxonRider
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    Horrific and heart-breaking. There is nothing more to say, really. 🙁

    dazh
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    Haven’t even got to the bottom of page 1 and this thread is already approaching the gutter. Can’t we at least pretend to have a bit of respect and class?

    igm
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    I agree Farage and the ‘kippers and their general angers on and supporters are cretins Tom, but that’s not today’s story.

    Today’s story is that a father is going to have to explain to his two young children what happened to mummy.

    And if that sounds a little emotional it’s because we have two young children, Jo Cox is about 3 weeks older than my wife and my wife will have been a mile or so away from where it happened. Yes I know it looks like Mrs Cox was targeted, and it’s unlikely my wife would be, but it’s still a little too easy to relate to it.

    craigxxl
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    Local man Tommy Mair named as the person arrested

    Tom_W1987
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    You’re right Igm, it’s a discussion for another day it would seem. Although, if he was a Muslim – I’m sure we’d all be discussing the political/social implications of it.

    PJM1974
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    Jo Cox was doing what all MPs could and should be doing – engaging with constituents, which is absolutely what a proper democracy needs to be about.

    And aside from politics for just a moment, as I said earlier, Jo Cox is forty one years old and has two young children 🙁

    gonzy
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    very saddened to hear this has taken place…reports suggest she was shot 3 times (once in the head) and repeatedly stabbed with a 12″ knife.
    prayers and thoughts with her and her family

    Rockape63
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    .reports suggest she was shot 3 times (once in the head) and repeatedly stabbed with a 12″ knife.

    Seems pretty amazing that she’s still alive ! Lets hope she makes it.

    project
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    sadly another two people stabbed and shot, horrendous time for all their families.

    tonyja
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    Very shocking, Im pretty certain she was in the dingy yesterday on the thames with her husband and kids getting squirted with a hosepipe from another boat that had a different opinion to her. The previous tweet from her husband had said the kids wished there was another flotilla today, and then shortly after they would have got this news.
    Really feel for her husband and children right now. Hope she pulls through.

    crashtestmonkey
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    Didn’t she work for Oxfam, so regardless of your politics she’s a conviction politician, ie. one of the good ones. Truly horrific and hope she pulls through.

    GrahamS
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    From that live Sky feed above:

    roddymansfield – 37 minutes ago

    There has been no official confirmation the suspect did indeed shout “Britain First!” before shooting Ms Cox and no witnesses Sky News has spoken to say they heard the phrase shouted.

    wwaswas
    Full Member

    She’s died.

    Dreadful.

    Philby
    Full Member

    RIP Jo Cox – a sad day for society.

    myopic
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    PJM1974
    Free Member

    Oh, no.

    Tragic news.

    🙁

    bikebouy
    Free Member

    Awe… 😕

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