So Is Brendan Cox Right About His Comments As To The Threat On His Wife's Politics?

[DTCwordfan]

as per the BBC interview at 10pm....

Jo was very worried about the extremism in politicing in this country......singular populism viz driving communities to hate the opposition and that we have lost the tone of rationale debate in society....right or left, her hubbie's view being that she died because of this increasing polarisation.

[Baldric]

I'd really need to read more on it before commenting tbh.

[Svejk]

Given her support for terrorists in Gaza and Syria,I wouldn't put too much store in her views on extremism.

[Zacs-Master]

He seems like an intelligent chap but grief can do strange things to people, especially where a murder is concerned. I don't think too much store should be held in his words at this very difficult time.

[DTCwordfan]

am sure that it will pop as a link shortly, baldric......

[ToraToraTora]

extremists rise when the indigenous feel trampled.

[Svejk]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3652772/Jo-Cox-s-widower-says-MP-died-strong-views-worried-politics-extreme.html#reader-comments

[Old_Geezer]

I don't think it needs populism or anything else to drive the polarisation. It is an inevitable consequence of the two viewpoints. (What is populism anyway but actually listening to the democratic will of the people and representing their views as a representative should ?)

One side wishes to remain being dictated to, to a large degree, by an external power block, of whom we have no say in who is appointed as the elites but will rule by right (of something). Seemingly not concerned about their individual national identity and concerned that having to stand up for ourselves will mean a transitional period of upheaval, slightly lower growth in the short to medium term and one of those spikes in the economy that happens from time to time and which over the longer term isn't a big deal.

The other are horrified that our proud and glorious nation may no longer exist as an independent unit, no longer controlled from within by it's elected representatives but near destroyed as an sovereign nation as it is subsumed by the mix of diverse cultures and foreign views that is the EU, and who hold sway and dictate to us what laws we shall have whether we like it or not. It inevitably seems a betrayal of the past, the present, and most of all the future generations.

So it polarises by it's very nature and affects many aspects of life and many issues we need to confront. And there will always be a few folk unstable enough to be unable to control their thoughts and actions when confronted with this sort of situation. The answer was to ensure the unstable were identified and not left on their tod, with their inability to look after their problem by themselves, out in society.

[DTCwordfan]

OG, well reasoned, IMO.......

[DTCwordfan]

perhaps the question for Friday, even more than the Scottish referendum, is how to weld society and politics back together again....

[youngmafbog]

I really dont know how he can be in a state of mind to comment like this, I know I couldnt.

As for extremists, her views were not exactly middle of the road so I think it a bit rich to label or attack those with opposing views like that.

[Togo]

Did you not find his TV "statement" somewhat chilling and calculating for a man who is in his horrible position. I found it just to dispassionate, almost rehearsed and calculated. Remember that he himself is a very shrewd operator, having worked for the Save The Children organisation, being Executive Director of Crisis Action, and as a "Special Adviser" to Gordon Brown, whilst his late wife was once an aide to Sarah Brown. He is a passionate Europhile, and I feel opportunist in the extreme to use his children and the death of his wife in such a cold blooded way.

[Khandro]

togo// I posted this late last night on another thread (to Jourdain);

"en passant, I just watched her husband giving a very long, calm, measured speech about his wife's murder and we here were wondering how we would behave in such circumstances. If my loved one had just been murdered, I think I would be now drunk or drugged and if asked if I would go before the cameras for a TV transmission, I would probably say f. off.
What would you do?"

[Smowball]

Could t agree more with khandro

[douglas9401]

The slavering voyeurs demand that the game is upped after every tragedy.
If friends and family refuse comment, the guardians of truth will take their cameras elsewhere so they can fill their rolling news programmes and further inflate the bag of pomposity and insincerity that is Alastair Stewart.

[Togo]

We are of the same mind on this then Khandro. I was somewhat apprehensive about posting my observations, but am glad that I was not alone in thinking that the performance was almost newspeak and kafkaesque in its delivery. Strange "forces" are in play indeed.

[DTCwordfan]

As I suspect that they will be come Friday morning, Togo. I wonder what the odds on Corbyn and Cameron lasting six months - and on Theresa May becoming next Prime Minister, a woman who has kept her powder very dry these past few weeks.

[DTCwordfan]

'odds are' - *** English of mine....!

[jim360]

People cope with grief or extreme emotion in different ways. Some may be great at putting on a stoic and dispassionate public face while being utterly distraught once on their own. I wouldn't want to assume that Brendan Cox is uncaring or calculated, or be suspicious about him because of this particular interview.

[Old_Geezer]

I didn't see the programme but I would assume he is keeping a stiff upper lip. It's what we do here, when out in public; or at least try to. (In private it is a different matter.)

[Togo]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36590824

The interview is here Geezer.