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Jo Cox

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“It bodes well for the future that young people are thinking so intently about political issues.”
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Recorded in: On a return visit to their former school, Heckmondwike Grammar School — Emmerdale actress Tracy Brabin and Labour politician Jo Cox return to Heckmondwike Grammar School (23 September 2014)
“Every weekend families across Britain settle down to watch the X-factor or Britain’s Got Talent. We revel in the discovery of new talent, the chance for someone to come from nowhere and suddenly make it big based simply on their raw ability and hard work. Yet (perhaps outside the realm of music and entertainment) our society is all too often the opposite of this ideal of opportunity.”
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Recorded in: Jo Cox: Opportunity must knock in a fairer society (24 September 2014)
“The idea that a child living deep in poverty whose parents don’t have enough money for food or heating, books or basic things like school trips can ever have the same opportunities for development as a more fortunate child is patently absurd. But because it leads to some difficult choices many politicians choose to ignore it, essentially promising to make you an omelette without breaking any eggs.”
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Recorded in: Jo Cox: Opportunity must knock in a fairer society (24 September 2014)
“It’s not about creating an equal country, but it is about stopping the development of an underclass cut off from the rest of society. This focus could be a straight forward set of things like a living wage, supporting more effective pathways into work and an effective benefits system.”
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Recorded in: Jo Cox: Opportunity must knock in a fairer society (24 September 2014)
“If we can find the will I strongly believe we can still make Britain’s approach to talent a bit more X-factor (without Simon Cowell) and a bit less Downton Abbey.”
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Recorded in: Jo Cox: Opportunity must knock in a fairer society (24 September 2014)
“I have fought a really local and positive campaign full of energy and enthusiasm and I think that came across. I’m not nervous, I’m honour and humbled to be elected, I appreciate the big challenge ahead, I have two children aged two and four so I am used to the challenge.”
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Recorded in: After being elected to Parliament in the United Kingdom general election. (8 May 2015)
“It was the realisation of a lifelong ambition to be the MP for my home town. It was by no means the end of a journey, but rather the beginning of a new chapter both for me and for the people of Batley and Spen.”
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Recorded in: Column: Jo Cox – After a hard day’s night, the real work starts (16 May 2015)
“We now face five years of an unbridled Conservative government that is intent on swingeing cuts, further attacks on society’s most vulnerable and on our NHS. This will severely limit what can be achieved but I am determined to work tirelessly to do what I can to make sure local people are heard in Parliament and protected from the worst of what is to come.”
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Recorded in: Column: Jo Cox – After a hard day’s night, the real work starts (16 May 2015)
“Many people don’t realise just what a valuable lifeline libraries can be.”
Jo Cox (1974–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They are a lifeline for job hunters without their own computer, slimmers, walkers, discussers, knitters and natterers.”
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Recorded in: Column: Jo Cox MP - “Our libraries are a lifeline.” (31 August 2015)
“British policy on Syria has wandered aimlessly, a deadly mix of timidity and confusion. The lack of a coherent response, not just by Britain but by the wider international community, has allowed the situation in Syria to fester into the greatest humanitarian crisis of our lifetime. … We can and should do much more to help.”
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Recorded in: Jo Cox: Syria is not Iraq – we must take action now (10 September 2015)
“We need a robust but targeted military approach. Don’t get me wrong, I’m no war-monger. I opposed the Iraq war and worked for a decade as an Oxfam aid worker – but this isn’t Iraq. This is a humanitarian crisis.”
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Recorded in: Jo Cox: Syria is not Iraq – we must take action now (10 September 2015)
“I don’t believe there will be a military solution to this conflict but I do believe there will be a military component to it. The vast majority of the fighting will be done by people from the region and by Syrians themselves, but that doesn’t mean that the UK shouldn’t play a role.”
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Recorded in: Jo Cox: Syria is not Iraq – we must take action now (10 September 2015)
“I don’t pretend to have all the answers. But despite all of the dangers and difficult judgements that lie ahead, burying our head in the sand is not an option. We must face up to this crisis and do all that we can to resolve it.”
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Recorded in: Jo Cox: Syria is not Iraq – we must take action now (10 September 2015)
“Thanks Diane. I hope we can all agree that this debate should be about Syria not UK party politics”
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Recorded in: Response in Twitter to Diane Abbott after she called Cox and John Woodcock 'sad' for backing military action against the wishes of Jeremy Corbyn — Furious Labour MPs accuse Diane Abbott of 'bullying' over Syria vote (11…
“The priority has been offering a service and making a difference.”
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Recorded in: Batley and Spen MP Jox Cox ‘very close’ to moving constituency office (12 October 2015)
“I don’t think we as a party should let China and Russia stop international action to save lives in Syria … Three times they have vetoed action in Syria, and each time the crisis has escalated and escalated.”
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Recorded in: Speaking on BBC Daily Politics show — UK 'should enforce Syria no-fly zone even if Russia vetoes UN resolution' (12 October 2015)
“I always back UN action where we can find it, but I do not think it should be a limit to our help. There have been multiple UN resolutions that say [to] Assad: stop killing indiscriminately your own citizens.”
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Recorded in: Speaking on BBC Daily Politics show — UK 'should enforce Syria no-fly zone even if Russia vetoes UN resolution' (12 October 2015)
“On the military side, we need to get two things right if we only talk about limited air strikes against Isil [Isis] – and I back international action against Isil – it will be counterproductive. We have to look at the conflict dynamic in Syria, and that is 75% of civilian deaths and causalities are caused by the Assad regime due to his aerial bombardment of civilians.”
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Recorded in: Speaking on BBC Daily Politics show — UK 'should enforce Syria no-fly zone even if Russia vetoes UN resolution' (12 October 2015)
“This is about a deterrence effect to stop the Syrian regime targeting their own civilians. I think it would be enforceable from the Mediterranean using US French and UK military capability already out there. It would mean the aerial bombardment of Syrian civilians would stop, and it would create space for peace talks.”
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Recorded in: Speaking on BBC Daily Politics show — UK 'should enforce Syria no-fly zone even if Russia vetoes UN resolution' (12 October 2015)
“The civil war in Syria is the worst humanitarian tragedy of our generation and one that our government, and the world, is failing to deal with adequately.”
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Recorded in: Jo Cox MP welcomes announcement that 100 refugees will land in Kirklees (16 October 2015)
“I never really grew up being political or Labour. It kind of came at Cambridge where it was just a realisation that where you were born mattered. That how you spoke mattered... who you knew mattered. I didn’t really speak right or knew the right people. I spent the summers packing toothpaste at a factory working where my dad worked and everyone else had gone on a gap year! To be honest my experience at Cambridge really knocked me for about five years.”
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Recorded in: ‘I’ve been in some horrific situations’ - MP, (26 December 2015)
“Having gone through that experience of being in a Cambridge college, surviving it and building myself up, meant that coming here (Westminster) was a walk in the park, and a lot of the same people are here!”
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Recorded in: ‘I’ve been in some horrific situations’ - MP, (26 December 2015)
“I’ve been in some horrific situations where women have been raped repeatedly in , I’ve been with child soldiers who have been given Kalashnikov and kill members of their own family in . 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.”
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Recorded in: ‘I’ve been in some horrific situations’ - MP, (26 December 2015)
“If you talk to quite a lot of people around the world, whether it’s in an camp or in an emergency disaster they often say the UK is a UN Security Council member, a leading member of the European Union, a leading member of , you can make a massive difference and they want us to act.”
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Recorded in: ‘I’ve been in some horrific situations’ - MP, (26 December 2015)
“Our communities have been deeply enhanced by immigration, be it of Irish Catholics across the constituency or of Muslims from Gujarat in India or from Pakistan, principally from Kashmir. While we celebrate our diversity, what surprises me time and time again as I travel around the constituency is that we are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us.”
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“In my neck of the woods non-conformity is what we do best.”
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“What many of our businesses are lacking is confidence: confidence to expand; confidence to borrow; confidence to grow; and the confidence to fuel a real economic recovery that benefits everybody, offering decent jobs, paying decent wages and bridging the skills gap.”
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“It is time to give city and county regions the powers and resources they need to promote growth, and I will happily work with all of those who are genuinely committed to building an economic powerhouse in the north.”
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“Yorkshire folk are not fools.”
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“Many businesses in Yorkshire want the security and stability of Britain’s continued membership of the European Union, a cause I look forward to championing passionately in this place and elsewhere.”
Jo Cox (1974–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am Batley and Spen born and bred, and I could not be prouder of that. I am proud that I was made in Yorkshire and I am proud of the things we make in Yorkshire. Britain should be proud of that, too. I look forward to representing the great people of Batley and Spen here over the next five years.”
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“Every decade or so, the world is tested by a crisis so grave that it breaks the mould: one so horrific and inhumane that the response of politicians to it becomes emblematic of their generation —their moral leadership or cowardice, their resolution or incompetence. It is how history judges us.”
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“We must put party politics to one side and focus on what really matters—the protection of Syrian civilians.”
Jo Cox (1974–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Please let us stop casting the humanitarian, diplomatic and military responses as mutually exclusive alternatives. They are not. If we are serious about addressing this crisis, we need to stop pretending that any one of them offers a panacea and instead weave these strands into a coherent strategy.”
Jo Cox (1974–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let us not be duped into believing that we need to make a choice between dealing with either Assad or Isis. On the surface, this may seem appealing, but it is not an option. There is no choice.”
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“No matter what our humanitarian response is to this crisis, it will never be enough. It cannot end the conflict.”
Jo Cox (1974–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If four years of continuous vicious conflict have taught us anything, it is that the current regime is no longer capable of bringing peace and stability to Syria.”
Jo Cox (1974–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“While I do not believe that there is a purely military solution to this conflict, I do believe that there will be a military component to any viable solution.”
Jo Cox (1974–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe it is time for the Government urgently to consider deterring the indiscriminate aerial bombardment of civilians in Syria through the willingness to consider the prudent and limited use of force.”
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“We owe it to everybody in our party to be honest about where we stand.”
Jo Cox (1974–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Tories deserved a kicking last night. With chaos and discord in our hospitals and schools, an unprecedented housing crisis and fatcats lining their pockets while life gets tougher for everybody else, it’s an outrage for David Cameron to appear on TV looking like the cat who got the cream, knowing his party is on track to win again in 2020.”
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“Labour is in the doldrums and we have to ask ourselves why. Why, day after day during the campaign, we failed to get a hearing. Why the voters aren’t getting the alternative vision of a fairer, stronger, more just Britain that we should be offering.”
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“When the voters tell us on the doorsteps that they can’t picture our leader in No 10 we have to listen. When our candidates in London and Wales ask the leader to stay away, we have a problem. When the revival we were promised in Scotland with Corbyn’s “new” politics proves to be a mirage, we have to ask what it has actually achieved.”
Jo Cox (1974–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We both nominated Corbyn for leader last year. We have never had cause to doubt his commitment to society’s most disadvantaged and to Labour’s values – a commitment we all share. But we have come to regret that decision.”
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“Weak leadership, poor judgment and a mistaken sense of priorities have created distraction after distraction and stopped us getting our message across.”
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“Every time we flounder we just embolden them further.”
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“Some say we need to be more patient. What we cannot, must not do is sit back and hope for the best.”
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“Corbyn needs to show he’s ready to lead from the front. He and those around him must come out of their bunker, stop blaming everybody else, and show the discipline and determination to drive our message home. These elections were a terrible missed opportunity. We cannot afford any more.”
Jo Cox (1974–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In recent years, Britain has withdrawn from the world. On Syria, on Europe, on Ukraine this government has been on the periphery: all victim of the same lack of long-term strategic thinking about British foreign policy and the absence of a moral compass. It is time for the left to revive its ethical foreign policy and carve out a new long-term narrative that puts human rights and the protection of civilians centre stage once again.”
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