Look for reasons why.

It gets better. Here's the original of that image of queues of referees. Guess what they've done? Photoshopped out the white people so it's very clear that all refugees are of course brown people

I've not examined it closely, but I can only see the white guy near the foreground, and they've dropped a voting box over his head. Are there any clear cases of them removing people?

What I find hardest to swallow is that the fact that you've got all these people are desperate for help and if we do it's a bad thing.

Genuinely shocked and stunned by this.

Agreed, has this every happened in the UK before, an MP being murdered? Very shocking.

She described herself as a "proud Yorkshire lass", but her work for charities took her around the world.

From 2002, she worked across the globe on poverty issues and discrimination.

For Oxfam, she worked on policy and campaigns including maternal mortality. A decade later she was a strategy consultant for Save the Children, and then the NSPCC.
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"I've been in some horrific situations where women have been raped repeatedly in Darfur, I've been with child soldiers who have been given a Kalashnikov and kill members of their own family in Uganda," she said.

"In Afghanistan I was talking to Afghan elders who were world weary of a lack of sustained attention from their own government and from the international community to stop problems early.

"That's the thing that all of that experience gave me - if you ignore a problem, it gets worse."

This has knocked me for 6. I don't particularly know why.

The Overton Window in the UK now seems, horrifically, to have widened to encompass murdering MPs who stood up for Syrian refugees. Because make no mistake -- dog whistle politics by mainstream parties emboldens and empowers the nut cases.

If you normalise nationalism with rhetoric, then xenophobia will follow, and outright racism will follow that.

So today we live in a world where Jo Cox is dead and Farage is standing in front of a duplicitous image of Syrian refugees claiming it's a reason to leave the EU because immigration is out of control. Don't tell me there's no link here.

But, still. Look. When you encourage rage you cannot then feign surprise when people become enraged. You cannot turn around and say, ‘Mate, you weren’t supposed to take it so seriously. It’s just a game, just a ploy, a strategy for winning votes.’

When you shout BREAKING POINT over and over again, you don’t get to be surprised when someone breaks. When you present politics as a matter of life and death, as a question of national survival, don’t be surprised if someone takes you at your word. You didn’t make them do it, no, but you didn’t do much to stop it either.

Sometimes rhetoric has consequences. If you spend days, weeks, months, years telling people they are under threat, that their country has been stolen from them, that they have been betrayed and sold down the river, that their birthright has been pilfered, that their problem is they’re too slow to realise any of this is happening, that their problem is they’re not sufficiently mad as hell, then at some point, in some place, something or someone is going to snap. And then something terrible is going to happen.

We can’t control the weather but, in politics, we can control the climate in which the weather happens. That’s on us, all of us, whatever side of any given argument we happen to be. Today, it feels like we’ve done something terrible to that climate.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/16/jo-cox-mp-everything-we-know-so-far-about-thomas-mair/

Mental health possibly an issue

Oh for fucks sake! Millions of people have mental health issues without shooting and stabbing people. For some reason when it's a white shooter the 'sad loner' and 'mental health problems' stories come out. Poor mental health doesn't make you a racist prick.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/16/jo-cox-mp-everything-we-know-so-far-about-thomas-mair/

Mental health possibly an issue

The source article says the centre is for physiotherapy, not psychotherapy.

http://www.batleynews.co.uk/news/local/ ... -1-2976712

This deserves some smattering of applause at least.

Not sure if anyone has posted this interesting piece from several years ago. http://sluggerotoole.com/2010/12/13/why ... be-banned/

What do you make of his arguments?

I'm against using referendums for matters of policy, but err in favour of them when it comes to constitutional questions as the people should have the final choice over how they are governed. The only alternative is a specially-elected convention dedicated solely to discussing that matter, but that would in and of itself become a proxy referendum.