Imagine they will try and go down the mental health route with this. There was an interview on earlier with Gavin Barwell who is the MP for croydon central (I have met him a few times when he was a croydon councillor) and he was talking about his experiences with a constituent who was carrying a knife. Really hammers home the fact most MPS are normal people living in houses like ours with families and children of their own doing there job with the threat of danger or nutters quite regularly. I have been into the house of commons and the house of lords and the security there is immense on par with the airport but sadly you cannot police them doing their job in the community

When I was a young girl my Mother said to me.. You listen here kid you're CPFC

That was my thinking. Theresa May brought it in a few years ago, despite complaints from the European court of human rights that it infringes the human rights of the prisoner...

Optimistic as ever

Jo Cox: an attack on humanity, idealism and democracy

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So you're saying we should kick out the nutters as well as the immigrants if brexit wins.

Viewing this from France, it is obviously a very sorry story and a young family will be without their mother.

But is this really an 'attack on democracy and freedom' or the act of a mentally ill person, similar to the Dunblane and Hungerford killings?

"That was fun and to round off the day, I am off to steal a charity collection box and then desecrate a place of worship.” - Smokey, The Selhurst Arms, 26/02/02

A lot of people making assumptions will probably be a day or two before we know what he was thinking.

One theory on Radio 4 (Stephen Kinnock I think ) earlier was she may have not been the original target. I am sure there'll be another 101 theories