Top 25 Jo Cox Quotes

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Who can blame desperate parents for wanting to escape the horror that their families are experiencing?
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I fancy myself as a bit of a groover.
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The government is slowly waking up to the scale of the personal tragedy of delayed autism diagnosis.
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Brexit doesn’t guarantee that migration will come down.
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When the bombs rain down, the Syrian Civil Defense rush in.
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I went to Cambridge University and was the first in my family to graduate.
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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.
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I never really grew up being political or Labour. It was just a realisation that where you were born mattered. That how you spoke mattered… who you knew mattered.
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I was an aid worker for a decade and then worked in the voluntary sector in the U.K. on U.K. child poverty and with the NSPCC and Save the Children. But I had worked for ten years with Oxfam.
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Assad’s brutality has nurtured extremism and been its main recruiting sergeant.
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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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We cannot allow voters to fall for the spin that a vote to leave is the only way to deal with concerns about immigration. We can do far more to address both the level and impact of immigration while remaining in the E.U.
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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.
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I have long argued that ISIS and Assad are not separate problems to be chosen between, but are action and reaction, cause and symptom, chicken and egg: impossible to untangle no matter how much we might like to.
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Da’esh and Assad are not separate problems.
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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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Yorkshire folk are not fools: talk about devolving power to cities and regions, while simultaneously stripping them of the resources to deliver and subjecting northern councils such as Kirklees to the harshest of cuts, is not compatible with a worthy commitment to building a northern powerhouse to drive growth and prosperity.
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It is simply not credible to tackle child poverty without acknowledging the worst issue – a lack of money.
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My family didn’t really have newspapers at home or talk about politics – my family are not political. They were too busy getting on with it – working, looking after kids, trying to pay off the mortgage, all that stuff.
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Indeed, by refusing to tackle Assad’s brutality, we may actively alienate more of the Sunni population, driving them towards ISIS.
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Immigration is a legitimate concern, but it’s not a good reason to leave the E.U.
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In my view, it is only when civilians are protected that we will defeat ISIS, and until that is at the centre of our plan, I will remain an outspoken advocate for that cause.
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Going to Cambridge was a bit of a culture shock, I was a working class lass from Batley who hadn’t been anywhere apart from the odd holiday on the Costa Del Sol.
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Batley and Spen is a gathering of typically independent, no-nonsense and proud Yorkshire towns and villages.
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I spent the summers packing toothpaste at a factory, working where my dad worked, and everyone else had gone on a gap year!
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