What a truly tragic affair. I have pondered what has made an apparently benign man who although suffering from mental issues with his own self worth has led a life of community service. Could he have been affected by the austerity measures such as bedroom tax, has he had benefit issues because of his hospital admissions. Far from being diverse, Batley is a very polarised community with a very high Muslim population it is locally referred to as Batleystan where most of the women now wear the full face veil, maybe he was feeling the stranger in his own community and the rhetoric of some of the politicians with regard to immigration in the run up to the referendum imust be making some in the community more alienated. Most people can disagree and not take action, maybe in this case, his lot in life had become so poor that he saw poor Jo Cox as encouraging changes that would only see his life get worse. There are those at the bottom of the pile who are not aligned to far right theology, just struggling to survive. I am not condoning this, far from it, I am trying to rationalise why someone could be driven so mad as to do something so heinous.
