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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“The foundation is a registered charity”
Presumably the Jo Cox Foundation is a registered charity because its aims are sufficient to warrant charitable status which I assume includes free speech. As it is no longer meeting the requirements under which charitable status was granted charitable status must be immediately rescinded. I do not see any problems in this.
Far too many so-called charities in this country are abusing their tax exempt status and thus basically ripping off ordinary taxpayers. The colonial cousins and eco nutters seem to be particularly adept at this malarkey. It has to stop.
And don’t get started on the RNLI!
Talking of ”respectful politics”, of all the disappointing remarks I’ve heard Farage say regarding Tommy Robinson, this is the lowest and most defamatory. I didn’t see him say it so I don’t know the context but it’s obvious Tommy isn’t even able to defend himself right now, so it’s open season on his reputation for character assassination, seemingly, so his ex-wife is defending him here instead;
”This is a statement from Tommy’s ex-wife after hearing about @Nigel_Farage
‘s lie on LBC – that Tommy has convictions for ‘violence against women’:
It has been really upsetting to hear Nigel Farage has accused my ex husband Stephen Lennon of perpetrating violence against women. Having to sit down and talk to my children about these false allegations which are all over social media is not something any mother should have to do.
I have never ever been assaulted or abused by Stephen (Tommy) ever in my life. There has never ever been a call to the police about violence towards me or any other woman for that matter. Stephen (Tommy) has never ever been charged or accused of violence towards me or any other woman. These lies have to stop. Our children don’t deserve to have these allegations thrown in their faces by their peers or questioned about it in their friendship groups.
Who the hell does Nigel Farage think he is? What gives him the right to spread lies and misinformation about my ex-husband? What gives him the right to upset my children with his false allegations?
I am so sick of hearing absolute lies spread about Stephen which affects our children.
Stephen isn’t a perfect man, hes never claimed to be a perfect man. We have had our challenges as a family because of his activism and his journalism, that goes without saying, but I cannot, and will not have a high profile politician like Farage spread fake news about my children’s dad.
The lies have to stop, they have to stop now. Nigel must apologise for what he has said. My children have endured enough lies and misrepresentations about their dad to last them a lifetime.”
https://x.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/1876627459270946946
I don’t know who Camilla Tominey is but she’s another one that has ‘SoFem’ written all over her;
Camilla Tominey calls @TRobinsonNewEra
a white supremacist live on TV.
Not only is this scandalous, it is also libellous. Hope you can back it up Camilla(you cant by the way)”
https://x.com/HoodedClaw1974/status/1876620565571657933
Camilla Tominey is a journalist who writes for The Torygraph and has a GB News programme. She’s ‘ish.
She must be one of Nigel’s “team players” but who is the team that Nigel refers to, as Steyn put it. I suggest you read his latest on that regarding Farage and GBN. He has a way with words.
“The foundation is a registered charity…”
Every good cause will become a business and then turn into a racket.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND POLICY MANAGER (LONELINESS) £35,000 per annum, 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), pension contribution.
Also on the staff are: Evaluation and Impact Manager; Communities Manager; Civility Commission Manager; Operations and Projects Manager; Head of Community Programmes… among others.
Non-jobs. Producing no wealth but consuming plenty.
Time was when people in charities worked for charity in their spare time not for remuneration, or as a career, and most of the money went to the cause not on salaries, expenses, offices, pensions, self-promotion.
Or as I tend to say of charidees…
Donations to charities are simply secondary taxation for the gullible.
Don’t forget the street chuggers, they can be annoying when you’re just trying to go about your business.
Be interested to see where their income comes from. Is it the usual scum? And us taxpayers too?
Probably.
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With nine Directors.
Currently sat on a quarter of a mill in cash.
Speaking of charities, has the British Heart Foundation got on top of these heart related excess deaths. Such a great job they did keeping the public informed in any new treatments that can effect the heart and circulatory system.
Jess Phillips looked really haggard in TV clips of her sitting whilst Yvette ‘Allo Allo’ Cooper was making her ’emergency statement’ about the Pakistani Muslim rape gangs in Parliament.
On the one hand no one in politics should be exposed to threats to their safety but on the other she has brought on herself public opprobrium by supporting left-wing policies which encourage Pakistani Muslim rape gangs to carry on with impunity.
It is no good her banging on about how she has dedicated her political life to fighting violence against women when she has clearly failed when it comes to extremely young white working class schoolgirls.
So how come the Jo Cox Foundation supports supporters of Pakistani Muslim rape gangs?
I just don’t get it.
How low can the current crop of left nutters go? There seems not limit to this.
And I am still waiting for Starmer to identify who the “Far Right” are that he keeps banging on about.
Who are they? I have neither seen nor heard nor read anything by anyone who is ‘Far Right’. Where is it all being written said broadcast etc?
And the concept of the Home Secretary having to make an ’emergency statement’ about a problem which has been going on for over two decades is bizarre.
What is the emergency? It wasn’t an emergency for her the day before nor for over two decades before.
She and Jess Phillips should hang their heads in shame.
Although by the sounds of things it seems from the nature of the threats being made others want to hang their heads for them – which is not acceptable but illustrates the sheer scale of public anger.
So the ’emergency’ in reality is people are making threats of serious harm against Labour politicians.
Is that the only way Starmer’s loony left can be forced to effect political change?
Clearly it is what happens when politicians go deaf to what is right and continue with what is wrong.
So it is not a case of ‘Far Right’ but a case of ‘Far Wrong’.
Two decades? I clearly remember an attempt by a Pakistani to groom me in 1961 by sending friendly letters and taking me out to tea. He was a mature man and I was a pre-teen girl. Fortunately, wise adults and family around me swiftly got wind of it and sent him packing. I never saw him again, but it still makes me shudder. This has been going on for over sixty years!
It is clear there is a problem with the attitude of Muslims to “infidels” which of course is anyone non-Muslim. Now I should qualify this by saying ‘some Muslims’. The problem with doing so is that how can any tell one kind of Muslim apart from another? And what Muslims will say when in a minority, albeit sizeable, in the UK might not reflect what they really think.
We have the evidence before us of Pakistani Muslim men preying in gangs on vulnerable extremely young white working-class girls. That shows there is a problem. We do not know how extensive that problem is because it is not investigated and we also know it is not investigated because of political interference of the loony left with wokism, DEI and all that goes with it.
I was surprised to learn from a friend that the attitudes of Muslims to Hindus and Sikhs is of superiority to them as if the latter are sub-human. This condescension appears severe and is not reported in the academic literature I can find.
This may be because academics want to downplay religious intolerance and are subject to adverse career progression if they do not present a view of a harmonious multicultural society.
But we cannot avoid the evidence emerging before our eyes that there is a problem with Muslims and their attitudes to non-Muslims as illustrated by the rape gangs operating throughout the UK with impunity over decades.
It also seems those rape gangs are still operating and that it is not a thing of the past but very must still a thing of the present.
In short we have an extremely toxic combination of loony left dogma and seeming Muslim attitudes of superiority towards non-Muslims.
Is this limited to just Pakistani Muslims and only some but not all? I do not know. But we can look to the Taliban in Afghanistan and the evidence of their superior attitudes to their own mothers, sisters and daughters, let alone to non-Muslims.
So there is a problem and it is not just Pakistani Muslims.
And we have to ask what was the problem the Serbs had with Muslims in Kosovo and why did the Serbs want the Muslims eradicated by genocide?
What of the problems of Muslim repression of other religious groups in other parts of the world?
These are issues we need to see addressed and researched to know precisely what threat or benefit Muslims are to the supposed multi-cultural Britain. And if some Muslims present a threat what can we do about it to prevent future conflicts with a rapidly increasing Muslim population which looks like it might become a majority in the UK in as little as two decades because of the high birth rate compared to low birth rates amongst non-Muslims.
These issues need to be addressed now. We cannot wait for a problem and serious conflict to emerge as the years pass.
Everyone in this country needs to know and understand what the issues are and we cannot find out if free speech and discussion on these topics are criminalised by a dogma driven political party currently headed by a man I consider to be completely off his trolley and out to lunch, namely Sir Keir “Far Wrong” Starmer whose answer to every problem is the “Far Right”. It of course used to be the Jews under his national socialist anti-semitic party colleague Jeremy Corbyn.
Presumably when it is shown the “Far Right” are a complete fiction they will go back to blaming the Jews. Hopefully by that time there will have been an electoral wipeout of their kind.
Instead of bleating here, why don’t you report this supposed ‘charity’ to the Charity Commission for its blatant political bias?