Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you cannot be unaware of the terrible events of last week, where Thomas Mair “allegedly” (you have to say that until he is convicted) shot and stabbed MP Jo Cox in Birstall, West Yorkshire. She died shortly afterwards.
Jo Cox believed that the UK should remain a member of the EU. She had worked for various humanitarian charities and pro-EU pressure groups. She was opposed to strikes against IS in Syria because of the effects on the civilian population. She wasn’t pro-IS – she was pro-civilian. EU Referendum campaigning was suspended over the weekend, and pleas were made to avoid politicising Ms Cox’s murder by either side.
There is absolutely no evidence that Thomas Mair murdered Ms Cox because she was a woman. You’d need to be almost as insane as Mair apparently is to believe that (at his initial hearing, he gave his name as “Death to traitors, freedom for Britain”).
With that in mind, take a look at Jean Hatchet’s blog. All she is interested in is that a man killed a woman. She repeats this at least six times, almost like a Tibetan mantra.
It appears that Thomas Mair was already partially on the radar because of his mental state. His words at his first hearing tell you what his political views were. Quite simply, you can only gauge someone’s mental state based on what they say and – if you don’t catch it early enough – on what they subsequently do.
So you have to wonder at Jean Hatchet’s words. This is one seriously mixed up woman.