To feel so upset about jo cox?

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I didn't know of her before today but this news has devestated me for some reason. Watching the news I couldn't stop crying.

I just keep thinking of her poor kids.

Unproper sorry to talk about you in the third person, YANBU. It's normal to have an emotional reaction to something like this I think .

this thread makes me want to leave mumsnet. Fucking horrible responses. No op YANBU to feel however you feel. It sounds like it's empathy that has made you feel like this, as you are a similar age and also have small children. There is NOTHING wrong with being empathetic towards such as sad case that happened yesterday.
Let's be honest, this crime had some political motivation and the political mood of our country is dark right now.

Stealth, if you can face visiting the Britain First facebook page, you'll see many really distasteful reactions - unless they have been deleted now. I've not looked since last night.

I'm 18 weeks pregnant and have a 5yo ds so yes this hit home from a maternal perspective and I'm ashamed to say that I cried too and I don't think it was entirely hormonal. I have often said that the only thing that scares me almost as much as the thought of losing my dc is the thought of them growing up without me. I don't think it's grief tourism or whatever disparaging way you wish to refer to it as. It's empathy. Added to that she seemed like an amazing woman who cared and did wonderful things for her community and others. Who wouldn't be upset that 'one of the good ones' has gone in such fucking awful circumstances?

not ashamed

She was assassinated. She was trying to raise awareness for what is happening to innocent people in Syria. There are a lot of very powerful people who would not like that at all and could fund some nutcase to go and do something like this and get him to shout 'Britain First' even if he has no known links to that party. Killing 2 birds with 1 stone basically because they don't like nationalists either.

There are 'deeper issues' - this is a serving mp killed doing her job in our fragile democracy - is that not deep enough?

I mean god forbid someone takes a few minutes longer to find yet another bloody MIL thread or start arguing about the dress size of some z-list celebrity. The important thing here is the OP has been well and truly put in her place for the heinous crime of being upset by something and wanting to talk about it. Yes flippin I feel very sad about this event as all rational people would and I want to discuss it today. Who cares about how many threads are started.

Well I don't mind admitting I shed some tears - not justfor Jo Cox, but for how the referendum campaign seems to be tearing this country apart in an ugly, frightening way; how people at the bottom of the heap are being robbed, and those doing the robbing are turning those same people againt each other. I find this genuinely distressing, and though we don't yet know the facts, it feels impossible to separate yesterday's tragedy from all of this.

So I think we should weep, then fight hard to restore a bit of love and tolerance. RIP Jo.

Not specifically about her death - rather accusing an eyewitness of making up what was reported to be said and saying it was because he was Muslim, with the obvious inferences. Many seemed more obsessed with that aspect rather than the very sad circumstances.

The 'official statement' in on their fb. I'm listening to it at present. It is a long long rant about how the media need to stick to facts and not blame them, as well as some condemning of the violent act. A simple statement of sadness, regret and and an utter condemning of the violence would have been more appropriate.

My life is wonderful, I've never been so happy. I don't have other stuff going on - except pregnancy which is wholly positive. But it is precisely because of this happiness that it's so upsetting. Happiness is so very fragile and gone in the blink of an eye. We are blessed with life, despite how cruel it can sometimes seem.

There are also several claiming it was a media stunt.

It is. And they are still campaigning without pause today on the referendum. The only political party to be continuing to do so.