The Jo Cox Foundation has come to the defence of Jess Phillips over the recent comments made about her by Elon Musk.
However, the foundation set up in the name of a murdered MP still hasn’t said a word about a man who threatened to kill one of her colleagues – even after he was convicted.
In June 2016 Labour MP Jo Cox was murdered by a man with a knife and a gun while travelling to a surgery in her constituency. A politically motivated assassination, a tragedy, and a warning about the dangers of violence and threats against our politicians and public figures when they speak out on issues which may be contentious.
Shortly after her murder, family, friends and colleagues of Jo set up a foundation in her name. The Jo Cox foundation has three priority aims which include “Respectful Politics” with the statement of intention that:
We want anyone, regardless of their background, to feel able to participate in our political discourse and be treated with respect.
The foundation is a registered charity and continues to speak out, particularly on violence, abuse and threats towards MPs and other elected representatives.
Five years after the murder of Jo Cox, British democracy was shaken by another politically motivated assassination of a sitting MP, the Conservative David Amess. Again, there was much soul searching about “respectful politics”, how this could have been allowed to happen again and what might need to be done about it.
The foundation has fulfilled its remit, condemning violence and threats against politicians from across the political spectrum. It was formed in response to the murder of a Labour MP. It mourned and condemned the murder of a Conservative MP. During the last General Election it was vocal in condemning threats and drink-throwing incidents aimed at Reform’s Nigel Farage.
It looks, on the face of it, as if the foundation is indeed supporting respectful politics and condemning violence and threats against politicians and public figures from all sides of the debate. However, there is one particular case in which the foundation has gone missing in action.
In January 2023, a man in Manchester posted audio clips online which threatened violence “with a big hammer… and a gun”. The targets of these threats were two women, a sitting Labour MP and a high profile author and public figure.
The police took these threats seriously. The case was investigated. A man was arrested, charged, tried, convicted and then sentenced for the crime of “sending an article conveying threatening messages”.
You might think that this kind of crime, credible threats against the safety of two public figures, would be exactly the kind of thing that the Jo Cox Foundation would be particularly concerned about. Preventing and condemning crimes of this kind is surely the very reason for the existence of the charity?
I can find no mention by the foundation of this case. I’ve searched its X posts, its Facebook page, its own website and Google. Nothing. It seems the foundation has said nothing at all.
Not just that, at the time of the conviction of the man who committed these crimes, I asked it directly if it would comment. I posted on X asking the foundation for comment. I went to its website and filled out the contact form asking it for a response. I did get an automated reply saying that it would respond. It did not.
What possible reason could there be for the foundation to completely ignore this case and offer no comment at all, no condemnation of the perpetrator and no words of support for the two women targeted?
The victims of this offence were Rosie Duffield MP and the author J.K. Rowling.
I think we all know very well why the Jo Cox Foundation has ignored this case. It is surely one of the following two related reasons.
Either it believes in the right of Labour, Conservative and Reform politicians to express their views without fear for their safety; but not anyone who is critical of gender ideology.
Or, it did not want to comment on this case for fear of an online backlash from those who clearly do not want Rosie or J.K. to be able to speak, and who have threatened or supported threats against them (and many others) because of their views on women’s rights.
Whatever the reason, and it could be both, it is clear that the Jo Cox Foundation is failing in its remit and aim of fostering respectful politics.
This is one of the few political issues which is genuinely black and white. There are no grey areas. You either support free speech and everyone’s right to have their say, especially when you disagree with what they are saying, or you don’t.
If you don’t support everyone’s free speech rights, you support none.
There can be no exceptions, apart from the already illegal and criminal, incitement to violence and such like.
The Jo Cox Foundation was formed from tragedy and has, in theory, laudable aims. This does not give it a free pass or exemption from public scrutiny. It must support the free speech of and condemn threats and violence against all politicians and public figures.
Addendum
A job advert at the Jo Cox Foundation invites applicants to select their pronouns (required field) from a long list of 11, with space for “other” should you not be covered by “Xe/Xem” or “Ae/Aer” (pronounced “eh?”/”err”)…
- Ae/Aer
- E/Em
- Fae/Faer
- He/Him
- It/Its
- Per/Per
- She/Her
- They/Them
- Ve/Ver
- Xe/Xem
- Zie/Hir
- Other (please specify)
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“Something must be closed. The schools are something. Therefore they must be closed.”
They are all guilty as hell.
Talking of the covid “inquiry”:
Allison Pearson on X: “Sunak did well so far in his evidence. Quite right to spell out the harm lockdown posed to hospitality and other industries employing some of our poorest. Hugo Keith KC grandly says, “We’re not interested in QALYS”. Well, the taxpayer is interested in vast sums the NHS would…” / X (twitter.com)
Hugo Keith KC grandly says, “We’re not interested in QALYS”.
Huge Keith KC doesn’t appear to be interested in very much at all…..apart from “gotcha moments,” rude WattsApp messages ….. and exonerating The Blob from any culpability in the destruction of our economy and millions of lives.
I’m sure he’s executing the script with aplomb. Whoever chose him, chose well, or briefed him well, or both.
Prof. Dr. Stefan Homburg absolutely nails the events of the last three years for Germany. We should have a UK version for our phoney covid enquiry. It would swing hordes away from the narrative!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/uM0dIv4nX1cM/
It says it’s a speech to the German parliament but not clear who exactly. Given the applause, if it was MPs it would only be AfD MPs, surely?
The truth remains the truth whoever is listening.
Oh I’ve nothing against those MPs (if that’s what they were) – quite the opposite. Just surprised that such a man making such a speech would be allowed anywhere near a German parliament building – though to be fair I suppose Bridgen hosted a similar session, albeit attended by only a few.
The AFD is mentioned and their logo shown on the screen behind Dr Homberg.
Makes sense. They were the only ones to oppose covidianism at a national political level in Germany, to my knowledge. Horrible right wing racists of course.
They were the only fascists in favour of freedom, funny that!
AFD
That’s definitely not in parliament. It seem to be some sort of recorded AfD conference.
Interesting. I thought it might be some kind of meeting room within the parliament building.
That’s from the 11th and 12th of November 2023 and – as also seen on the German sign in the background – is from the 2nd corona symposium/ conference of the AfD faction in the German Federal Parliament (Bundestag).
It should also amply demonstrate why the parties of the current coalition (SPD, Greens, FDP) would very much like to outlaw the AfD which is already observed by the German inland secret service.
Complete recordings (in German and presumably, without subtitles) can be found on YouTube by looking for
2. Corona-Symposium der AfD-Fraktion im Deutschen Bundestag
Thanks for the link. I had already come to the same conclusion, but just intuitively. It’s nice to know that someone collected the necessary informations. Summary of factual key claims:
According to official statistics released by various German government offices (all quoted),
The only epidemic which occurred in Germany was an epidemic of positive PCR test results of overwhelmingly healthy people and an epidemic of sensationalists headlines about the purported horrors of COVID.
Politicians playing God.
I hate the bastards.
Back in March 2020 was an interview with a Korean COVID-19 ‘expert’ and as well as the assertions that China controlled this well with strong restrictions there is this answer about education.
Stephen Park (Interviewer): “In Korea the start of the school is being postponed, people are practicing social distancing, and the government even sends regular updates via texts. How well do you think this is all being handled?”
Professor Kim Woo-Joo “On March 20th, a couple days ago, the prime minister made a special announcement that he strongly recommends social distancing. So religious facilities, places people hang out, like bars, and indoor gyms… From march 20 for 2 weeks, these 3 types of places were strongly recommended to shut down. But this is not mandatory. People who are over 50 or 60 are following these protocols well. But teens and those in their 20s are not, because for teens in Korea, their education is very important. Even if they are sick and have a fever, they have to go to school and academy. The school year was postponed for elementary, middle, and high school because of COVID-19, but in the evening kids go to academies. So even if the government pushed back school, kids will still go to academy to study at night. Since I checked last weekend 90% of academies are open. In Asia, the college you go to determines your future.”
So not only did the kids continue their education, even when infected, but they were taught, presumably by someone much older!!!
Evidence is at 25:11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAk7aX5hksU&t=1808s
You Need To Listen To This Leading COVID-19 Expert From South Korea | STAY CURIOUS #15
Schools, shops, who cares?
Rishi Sunak “admits” covid was a scam and he is guilty of malfeasance in public office – that would be worth reporting
An even better ending would be one of the leading figures committing suicide due to being plagued by his conscience and leaving a long letter of possibly tearful confessions. Sadly, due to the need for cost savings, they don’t build public officials or politicians with consciences anymore these days.
Ah secondary school transmission…. The old orange juice on the lft giving a positive trick….
Neither should have been closed in the first place.
The Government knew Covid was a Low Consequence Infectious Disease, with low mortality rates and really only dangerous to the very elderly and people with serious co-morbidities.
They should have shielded the vulnerable and let everyone else get on with their lives and develop herd immunity.
But I believe Johnson was ordered to lockdown – probably by the CIA which knew it was a bio-weapon and wanted a mass human medical experiment to test the “vaccine” against it.
The Government knew Covid was a Low Consequence Infectious Disease, with low mortality rates and really only dangerous to the very elderly and people with serious co-morbidities.
This is still standing on its head: What’s dangerous (in the sense of risk of death) to these people is that they’re very elderly or have serious comorbidities aka already very frail. Which means that even generally harmless diseases may push them over the edge. So-called elderly people are at least a large fraction of those still running around masked and someone really ought to tell them that it’s not the Chinese mummery¹ which stopped them from dying during the last three years but their generally still robust enough constitution which enabled their bodies to cope with everyday diseases like colds.
¹ I have no proof for that but judging from observations, I’m pretty convinced that Chinese mummery, insofar actually done by the Chinese, is not so much about real-world protection but more a social status symbol for those who can afford it which roughly means I’m sufficiently well-to-do that I don’t have to breathe the same air than those of the lower orders and they’re certainly not entitled to see my face when I can’t avoid interacting with them. Maybe with some additional I don’t have to expose may face to the sun and risk it getting brownish thrown in — prior to holiday beach culture, a tan used to be a mark of people who had to work out in the open all day.
But I think here in the West a tan now represents affluence because those with a tan can either afford a sunbed, or they can afford to travel to warm destinations. All those wonderful things the West once prided itself of, now TPTB want to slowly remove those opportunities without the majority noticing.
Middle-class affluence — can afford package holidays, as opposed to being stuck in an eternal on work – off work zero hour contract loop in some low-level service job.
“It was designed in the context of a safe reopening.”
Posturing or did and does he still really believe this cr*p?
Safe like giving James Bond’s name and tel.no, or like walking in with masks and taking them off when sitting down?
Nothing made and could have made a difference.
Until he gets that, he has not understood a thing
And don’t forget the substantial meal (is a Scotch egg one)!