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Brexit Campaigns Suspended After British Lawmaker Critically Shot By "Britain First" (Jo Cox dead)
Zerohedge ^ | 06/16/2016 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 06/16/2016 9:18:38 AM PDT by Rusty0604

Update: 52-year-old man arrested after Labour MP Jo Cox was shot in street outside her constituency surgery has been named as Tommy Mair. A brief public data history search reveals that Mair had psychological problems:

Thomas Mair, 46, started volunteering at the park after learning about the opportunity through the Mirfield-based Pathways Day Centre for adults with mental health problems. He said: "I can honestly say it has done me more good than all the psychotherapy and medication in the world. "Many people who suffer from mental illness are socially isolated and disconnected from society, feelings of worthlessness are also common mainly caused by long-term unemployment.

"All these problems are alleviated by doing voluntary work. Getting out of the house and meeting new people is a good thing, but more important in my view is doing physically demanding and useful labour.

"When you have finished there is a feeling of achievement which is emotionally rewarding and psychologically fulfilling.

"For people for whom full-time, paid employment is not possible for a variety of reasons, voluntary work offers a socially positive and therapeutic alternative."

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Update: Responding to unconfirmed allegations the shooter shouted "Britain First!" before the incident, the group Britain First has said:

A single eyewitness also claimed (unconfirmed) that the assailant “apparently” shouted “Britain First” during the attack, but this is pure hearsay at the moment.

A single eyewitness also claimed (unconfirmed) that the assailant “apparently” shouted “Britain First” during the attack, but this is pure hearsay at the moment.

There is LOTS of use of words such as “apparently” and “allegedly”.

That hasn’t stopped the media publishing multiple articles condemning Britain First for somehow being involved.

Britain First obviously is NOT involved and would never encourage behaviour of this sort.

As an MP and and a mother, we pray that Jo Cox makes a full recovery.

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Update: As BBG adds, campaigning was suspended in Britain’s European Union membership referendum after news of the attack, which happened just before 1 p.m., came out.

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Update: Here is a photo of Jo Cox' assailant getting arrested. As SkyNews adds, "West Yorkshire Police said a 52-year-old man was arrested in connection with the attack, which happened near the town's library. Witness Hichem Ben Abdallah said a man "was kicking her as she was lying on the floor." He said that after a bystander intervened, the attacker produced a gun, stepped back and shot her twice."


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: borisjohnson; brexit; brixit; churchill; europeanunion; hichembenabdallah; jocox; kenyan; kenyanbornmuzzie; labour; london; nato; nigelfarage; obama; sirwinstonchurcill; tommymair; trump; tylerdurden; tylerdurdenmyass; ukip; unitedkingdom; winstonchurchill; zerohedge
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To: dfwgator

Those that shout “Allah akbur” , not so much.


41 posted on 06/16/2016 9:34:51 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: GilGil; pgkdan

Lots of guns - rifles, mostly - in Britain.

Each must be licensed.


42 posted on 06/16/2016 9:34:55 AM PDT by BBB333 (Q: Which is grammatically correct? Joe Biden IS or Joe Biden ARE an idiot?)
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To: ScaniaBoy

interesting. People need to wake up to these false flags. It’s so obvious what they are doing.


43 posted on 06/16/2016 9:35:32 AM PDT by ground_fog
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To: ScaniaBoy
I hope the British will show the same wisdom.

Prayers up.

44 posted on 06/16/2016 9:35:53 AM PDT by Stentor
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To: pgkdan

There are reports the gun is either homemade or an antique.


45 posted on 06/16/2016 9:36:38 AM PDT by Deo volente (They want to eradicate us, and will never stop. We need to eradicate them first.)
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To: ScaniaBoy

Thanks for your insight.


46 posted on 06/16/2016 9:37:03 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: The Iceman Cometh

Oh, I know. That is why I said the actor.


47 posted on 06/16/2016 9:38:02 AM PDT by sagar
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To: sagar

That was my thought. A attempt to paint the BRExit crowd as violent extremists.


48 posted on 06/16/2016 9:38:27 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: sagar
Oh, I know. That is why I said the actor.

Yeeeee-owww... that's the sound your first comment made as it zoomed right over my head. Lolz

49 posted on 06/16/2016 9:38:56 AM PDT by The Iceman Cometh (It's going to be tough to unite the Republican party,but we must. Our children can't afford Hillary)
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To: babble-on

They sure do scrutinize eyewitness if an assailant shouts “Allah Akbur!”


50 posted on 06/16/2016 9:39:34 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: GilGil

My god what an out and out lie.


51 posted on 06/16/2016 9:40:17 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: ScaniaBoy

Thanks for that historical reminder.

Someone posted (on another thread about this MP) that the tactic in Spain, just before elections, worked. Shut down the opposition.


53 posted on 06/16/2016 9:41:42 AM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: dfwgator
"Stupid. Why suspend when it was some nut?"

They suspended it because the Brexit side was winning. And the British establishment and financial institutions which own them don't want it to happen.

54 posted on 06/16/2016 9:42:27 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: All

Using this logic, immigration should have been halted IMMEDIATELY after the first migrant/invader attacked someone....Press on, LOUDER HARDER AND FASTER, you remaining non-cuckolded Brits!


55 posted on 06/16/2016 9:43:42 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: sagar
False flag?

I have little doubt that the Brit "powers that be" wanted any excuse to avoid BRexit

56 posted on 06/16/2016 9:44:22 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: Rusty0604

I normally am very leery of claims of “False Flag” as to explain why things happen...

It’s getting very hard not to put two and two together...


57 posted on 06/16/2016 9:44:30 AM PDT by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone..)
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To: ScaniaBoy
An interesting recollection. Frankly, I think that the exit campaigners should openly confront the non sequitur implied by the efforts to exploit the shooting for the purpose of surrender.

"We certainly condemn a mental case for shooting a member of Parliament. But as patriots, we are not willing to abandon our loyalty to home & country. Of course, we have a duty to put Britain First--the actions of a mental case do not change our duty."

58 posted on 06/16/2016 9:45:03 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: dfwgator

Eyewitness Clarke Rothwell who heard the nutter say it before and after the crime is not to be believed. A guy in Dallas has the real scoop.


59 posted on 06/16/2016 9:45:18 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: Deo volente

There are reports the gun is either homemade or an antique.


Ban homes!!


60 posted on 06/16/2016 9:46:00 AM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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