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Labour MP Jo Cox shot in Birstall

(658 Posts)
POGS Thu 16-Jun-16 14:12:42

I am sorry to be watching this ' unravelling' news report .

I hope she will be OK. Her poor family.

It is being reported that 2 people have been shot and 2 stabbings but no police confirmation as yet. The area is on lock down at the moment and there is a Primary School in the vicinity .

I hope the gunman is caught soon.

Gracesgran Wed 22-Jun-16 22:34:36

She did seem a bit out of her depth (trying to be kind) Merlot

It's finished - when do they have to stop talking about it - until they start again after the result?

durhamjen Wed 22-Jun-16 22:39:00

I thought Paxman and Julia Hartley Brewer were quite rude to her. She wasn't just talking about her music. She was talking about the arts as a whole, or would have done if she hadn't been so rudely shouted down by them.
Are the arts and music not important in this country?

merlotgran Wed 22-Jun-16 22:40:31

Of course they are but they were talking about security.

Granny2016 Wed 22-Jun-16 22:44:27

I share a birthday with Winston Churchill.

Gracesgran Wed 22-Jun-16 22:52:40

Paxman is innately rude. She did have a point to make but not a quick one sadly.

Anyone know when we have to go over to the filler programmes - midnight?

Gracesgran Wed 22-Jun-16 22:56:43

I am a bad person. I left the comedy programme on - I have never seen it before and laughed out loud at a joke about Osborne and the Wicker Man. It was a very bad (not nice, unkind, almost stirring up hatred) joke but very funny. Can I ever be forgiven?

Badenkate Wed 22-Jun-16 23:36:32

I enjoyed the image as well Gracesgran. blush