Jo Cox by Cassie https://padlet.com/cassieguyon/xjndzvq5076o Labour MP en-us 2016-06-20 08:35:21 UTC 2024-05-31 04:40:15 UTC hello@padlet.com cassieguyon https://padlet.com/cassieguyon/xjndzvq5076o/wish/115030577 2016-06-20 08:36:25 UTC https://padlet.com/cassieguyon/xjndzvq5076o/wish/115030577 Cox was killed on Thursday lunchtime outside Birstall public library, where she had been planning to run a constituency surgery. The 41-year-old MP for Batley and Spen was declared dead at 1.48pm after being shot several times and stabbed. cassieguyon https://padlet.com/cassieguyon/xjndzvq5076o/wish/115036776 2016-06-20 10:07:46 UTC https://padlet.com/cassieguyon/xjndzvq5076o/wish/115036776 Jo Cox was elected MP for her home constituency of Batley and Spen, in West Yorkshire, in 2015, the start of this Parliament. Prior to this, she was a high-flyer in the NGO world, working for Oxfam, Save the Children and the NSPCC, among others. She was known as a committed advocate for the rights and protection of refugees and was a prominent campaigner for Britain to remain in the European Union cassieguyon https://padlet.com/cassieguyon/xjndzvq5076o/wish/115036825 2016-06-20 10:08:35 UTC https://padlet.com/cassieguyon/xjndzvq5076o/wish/115036825 Cox's maiden speech also makes reference to how the communities she had been elected to represent had been "deeply enhanced by immigration". "We are far more united, and have far more common, than that which divides us", she said of the different ethnic communities in the area. A fierce campaigner on behalf of the Syrian people, she highlighted the murderous horror of the Assad regime and Russia's support for that regime time and again. "Why can we not now join forces with our European allies to get food to starving people," the MP asked an unresponsive House of Commons, as she called for an end to the government's "shameful refusal to give 3000 unaccompanied children sanction in the UK". cassieguyon https://padlet.com/cassieguyon/xjndzvq5076o/wish/115036868 2016-06-20 10:09:35 UTC https://padlet.com/cassieguyon/xjndzvq5076o/wish/115036868 cassieguyon https://padlet.com/cassieguyon/xjndzvq5076o/wish/115036940 2016-06-20 10:11:01 UTC https://padlet.com/cassieguyon/xjndzvq5076o/wish/115036940 cassieguyon https://padlet.com/cassieguyon/xjndzvq5076o/wish/115049168 2016-06-20 12:48:03 UTC https://padlet.com/cassieguyon/xjndzvq5076o/wish/115049168