Jo Cox
Member of Parliament,
boat dweller, sometime liveaboard narrowboater
her violent death on Thursday 16 June 2016
was a personal tragedy for her and her family,
a national tragedy for all of us.
May we in our minds eye go to the calm waters of the Calder and Hebble Navigation.
As we leave Battyeford Cut heading upriver under a long narrow pedestian bridge
and eight boat-lengths further on under another bridge,
we have passed through the extent of the navigable waterways of the Parliamentary Constituency of Batley and Spen.
It's just one of those things that we will not be able to show her that cartographic quirk on the edge of her constituency.
On her parliamentary website it said
"Surgeries. Thursday 16th June – 1pm until 2pm @ Birstall Library and Information Centre.
No appointment is necessary, please just come along".
May that personal commitment to openness and our democratic processes stand in her memory.
Jo Cox Member of Parliament: we will remember you. May you Rest In Peace.
From my brief tribute at a waterways meeting that weekend.
Jo Cox was murdered at her parliamentary surgery that afternoon.
Flowers at Birstall war memorial