sop
sɒp/
noun
1.
a thing of no great value given or done as a concession to appease someone whose main concerns or demands are not being met.

This article may be filed under the heading "Sop".

The reality is actually the reverse to the implied bruitilising of the political class. (Exclude Cliff Richard as a possible pedophile, from the equation please).
Quite simply, the abysmal regard in which politicians are held by the public is richly deserved. All are aware of that!

And no, Jo Cox should not have been shot; and would not have been, if police had actually done the job they are customarily paid well to do. Fail!

The reality of Brexit, signals an abysmal failure of the EU. Badly managed and dominating. Both these realities are an obvious sign of political failure.
The people are taking back control of their future from an untrustworthy and undemocratic political "class". There will be a cost to pay. RIP Jo Cox!

The premature death of so much as one single innocent is far too high a price to pay, just to further the political ambitions of the average drop kick!

If Jo had been just an average housewife, and arguably more important and valuable than any overvalued overpaid politician we would have trouble finding the headlines!

There was a time when genuine folk from successful backgrounds did this work for free and with the best of intentions and for best possible universal outcomes? The banning of slave labor, child labor, the emancipation act and universal suffrage etc, were all ideas generated by progressive conservatives?

Rather than the 'umble folk 'oo followed and were granted a stipend so they could!

And the start of the overpaid argy bargy that's modern day destructive class warfare?

A halfway decent Leader could have headed a team and have achieved all the improvements he claimed Britain needed? Just by going to Brussels and mounting an unarguable (inside the tent) case? The fact he couldn't or wouldn't resulted in this divide and rule tragedy?
Alan B.

Oh please.
Jo Cox was not "innocent", she was an obnoxious Labour hack who was completely beholden to the Islamic community for her election. The reputation of Labour in the north, particularly in Yorkshire is shot and their candidates targets of hatred because of the Muslim "grooming" (read sexual slavery of White and Sikh teenage girls) scandals and their relentless war on the White working class.
Is it a coincidence that on the day she was shot dead sentences were handed down in a Leeds court to 15 Muslim men for the repeated rape and sexual servitude of a 13 year old ward of the state?
Even if Jo like the good SJW she was was oblivious to this latest in a long line of such atrocities caused by her party policies and the corrupt, morally bankrupt Labour councils, I'd hazard a guess and say Tommy Mair was not.
Jo Cox sold herself to Muslim special interests when she took office and she inherited the poisonous legacy of Labour in the north, she's by any definition a traitor to her people and her class.
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2016/06/the-selective-compassion-of-jo-cox/
Unlike the bourgeois commentators who want to to politicise the murder for their own ends Australian Nationalists know what we're looking at in her assailant Tommy Mair, if he's all the media have suggested then we can give you a pretty accurate assessment of his motivations and put Mrs Cox' murder into context. We know his type well after all.
http://unitednationalistsaustralia.wordpress.com/2016/06/18/a-lone-wolf-in-london/

The EU, created by the CIA and nurtured by the USA ever since [1], is a mechanism for defeating democracy.

It works like this. Imagine a collection of nations A, B, C etc. Assign the lawmaking capacity of each to all of the nations in the collection. Thus the laws of B - e.g. Britain - are not derived from democratically elected governments of B but overwhelmingly from the rest of the alphabet soup. The same applies to the people of each other nation. That means to all the people of all of them. So instead of the British people being able to declare "WE will decide who comes to this country" they have to accept "FOREIGNERS will decide who comes into this country".

Cracks are appearing in the EU edifice and if the British defy the calls of the City of London spivs and vote "OUT" there are grounds to hope the whole bureaucratic EU edifice will unravel, and democracy can at last prevail in each country in Europe.

[1] e.g. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/04/27/the-european-union-always-was-a-cia-project-as-brexiteers-discov/
or
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160501/1038913349/brexit-european-union-cia-project-analysis.html

Following on from Jay of Melbourne's post, murder is a despicable crime for which there is no excuse. It is very likely that enough voters will be repelled by the murder enough to switch their votes on June 23 and sink the narrow Brexit lead. In view of this it's not enough to label the killer as a nut case, attention needs to be focused on who put him up to it.

Even if all you claim is true J.O.M. It just didn't give the moron the right to execute a wife and mother, however obnoxious her politics and policies?

Simply put, this is the end result of divide and rule politics, entered into for personal reward, by folks who'd usually fail in any other profession?

Don't believe that?

Just take the time, if you can actually stand it to listen to question time with all its endless self congratulatory self promoting Dorothy Dix's, name calling and folk actually sprinting from the chamber as some kind of fathomless political statement!

I've seen more mature conversations and better sharing emanating from kindergarten kids at play in a sandpit than some of the stuff that passes for paid employment on the part of politicians!

WE all know the type indeed; right wing nutters who hate other folk for just being who and what they are. Jews, Homosexuals, Gypsies, Muslims, Blacks, Hispanic, Indian, Aboriginal, Catholics, Protestants, Drivers, Cyclists, Pedestrians, Males, Females, Married, Single, White, Young, Old, The Unemployed, Unwed Mothers, Breastfeeding and Babies.

We need to stop winding these folk and their symptomatic hate up, just to wield political power? And just replace it with the power of ideas?

Yes I know that'll likely empty a full two thirds out of our parliaments, which as an outcome would likely be no bad thing?
Alan B.