Truly awful news. An attack on an elected representative is an attack on us all.

I'd prefer to wait for more info before commenting further, but I do understand your anger at the far right Jamie.

There's nothing wrong with being nationalist, but there is with violence. It is terrible news but why is it worse because it's someone who's known? Surely it's just as bad if somebody you've never heard of is murdered... Murders are always horrible but it annoys me when known people are killed it's somehow more important, they're still just a person like anyone else

When someone is killed performing public service, be it in the military, emergency services, or indeed government representatives, it carries a greater weight with the public. They put themselves at risk because we demand it of them. As such we feel it more when they pay the price.

As Maniac suggested, an attack on an elected representative is an attack on democracy itself. Such things have a special resonance.

This is pathetic. How can we claim to be a civilised nation if people are murdered over their political views? RIP Jo Cox. I didn't think I'd have to see another Golden Dawn after I left Greece.

A sad day for England.
I fear however that nothing can be done except to show solidarity with her family and condemn the attack. Crazy people will always exist.

Please do not label the person as " Crazy " . He did it deliberately and with malice.

Crazy is a term also used for those living with mental Illness. I live with Bi-pola but also condemn the assault and my thoughts are with her family and Friends.

Using terms like " crazy" in open forums further promotes stigma and fear and prejudice something I believe Jo Cox was standing against.

In court the suspect gave his name as 'Death to traitors, freedom for Britain.'.

I was cautious about jumping to conclusions prior to getting all the information, but it is now clear that this was a right-wing attack.

I agree with Smokey, that we should be careful in our use of language with regard to people who may have mental health issues.

It depends how you define right wing, I guess. Freedom is something that I associate with the right, as as a dim view of traitors, but the more crucial aspect of murdering elected representatives in cold blood is much associated with the right wing as it is with gardening.

I've not seen any evidence that he associated with any political group at all, to be honest. Evidence suggests he took inspiration from extreme right groups, but he doesn't appear to be a member of any of them.

A lot of what we're hearing doesn't add up as things stand. I reckon we should hold off until the investigation makes progress.

He was a member, or had been, of a white supremacist international organisation which defended, and called for a return to, apartheid in South Africa.

He was on their mailing list. I'm as much of a member of the Labour Party

Have you ever been favourably mentioned in a Labour Party newsletter?

If you have some evidence of him being an active member in such an organisation, Jamie, why don't you just post it?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/jo-cox-dead-thomas-mair-suspect-south-africa-apartheid-a7086426.html

That hardly counts as a favourable mention. It's the magazine trying to keep hold of what is likely a very small readership. It's similar to the letters New Scientist send me when my subscription expires.

If they had said something like "Thomas is an outstanding member of the community", that would count as a favourable mention. But it is entirely possible to receive such mentions without actually being favoured.

The picture is extremely confusing. He apparently has some interest in the extreme right. He is also a keen volunteer in the local community who has helped with gardening and teaching English to immigrants, a member of a close mixed race family, and a man who has happily discussed politics with local people without any mention of anything remotely extreme.

As things stand it doesn't add up.

It reinforces my opinion that this man is crazy.

So now a fascist has murdered a pro remain politician. Sadly, I was right being worried about where you are heading with all this silly nationalistic rhetoric. Please stop this dangerou silliness asap.

@peterlund: You're acting much like a politician after a shooting in America who grieves for about 10 seconds and then starts promoting his gun control agenda, exploiting a horrible event.

@steephie I think it is just right to talk about gun control the day after a mass shooting occurs, as well I think it is correct to talk about fascism and nationalism the day after a fascist murders a elected MP in the UK.

If we do not talk about it now, when should we then talk about it? Never?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/17/its-time-to-call-the-killing-of-jo-cox-what-it-is-an-act-of-far/

While it should never be forgotten that all politics is, ultimately, violence, there is never a justification for murdering a mother of two small children.

In this case at least, I have to say it's a pity the Brits gave up their tradition of torturing criminals to death long ago.

There appears to be an attack on right wingers here... Just because ONE person did something over the top it's suddenly a bad thing to be nationalist. As I said earlier there's no problem with being nationalist there's just a problem with the way SOME people go about dealing with it.

Just for the record, I am of the opinion that there *are* things wrong with being nationalist. I'm also pro gun-control. Those are political opinions though. If you're going to pretend that the Leave campaign suddenly became the Kill Jo Cox campaign or something, you're not just being disrespectful by turning a sad occasion into a political talking point, it's also an extremely weak argument which is only going to convince the idiots who think that the leave campaign supports this kind of actions.

A bunch of you in Europe act as if American politics are so inferior but your politics are just as crazy and fucked up as ours.

"This is pathetic. How can we claim to be a civilised nation if people are murdered over their political views?"

http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0508/p07s02-woeu.html

Ah yes, something from over a decade ago, and to which I'd have given the same response.

I am merely pointing out that assassinations aren't unique to right-wing extremists.

knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-don-t-say

"There appears to be an attack on right wingers here.."

An "attack on right-wingers"? I am right wing, you doofus. I'd be supporting Brexit and might've even been one of the people splashing Jo Cox' boat on the Thames last week if I were British. Nationalism is one thing, but shooting and stabbing a helpless unarmed woman is the kind of barbaric brutality you'd expect from some nutjob weaned on PC feminist equality malarkey, NOT an act of someone who had any decency or compassion for the fairer sex.

"I am merely pointing out that assassinations aren't unique to right-wing extremists."

Baloney. Suggesting that a Muzzie terrorist murdering a homosexual politician somehow defines civilized behavior as you have done shows just how muddled our standards have become. Western values are an important part of what makes us unique; surrendering them with a "tu quoque" argument and declaring us no different from Muslim Terrorists - as you have just done - is to sacrifice the moral superiority of Judeo-Christian/Western Civilization on the altar of Cultural Marxism. It is truly disgusting to see someone claiming to be a conservative try to justify or excuse the murder of a mother of two small children. If this is what has become of conservatism, it may be time to knock the whole thing down and start from scratch.