Remember that although Jo Cox was murdered by an individual extremist, he did it as a wave of racist, nationalist anger โ aroused by Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and others โ broke over Britain. Thousands of Europeans, Muslims, gays and people of colour were abused. Today many far-right actors are openly inciting violence, and hoping to use it to gain power. We have to unite against them.
10 years ago my wife, the mum of our kids & the MP for Batley&Spen was killed by a far right extremist.
At anniversaries I try to be optimistic about the future. But not this time. In the ten years since she was killed we have gone backwards & I fear our democracy is now at risk