Why are people who disagree with someone like Brendan Cox always have to be far right or BNP.
They don't JP, at least not as far as I can see.
There must be many who don't agree with most or some of what he promotes who are lefties, but have strong feelings or are conflicted about particular issues.
I think the reason why what Farage (is reported to have) said to Cox has been highlighted so negatively is because it was a thoughtless, rather stupid and, above all, insensitive remark to make to a recently bereaved widower.
Regardless of political persuasion, anyone can connect with Brendan Cox on a personal level - not forever but for a while yet.
Several things have happened over the past, fairly recent, years, in the lives of politicians and every time the general feeling is one of great sympathy, politics are set aside. Thinking of two off hand, Gordon Brown's little daughter, Jennifer, was born prematurely and died within a few days; David Cameron's much loved son, Ivan, died. We can go back further and remember Norman Tebbitt's wife who was so disabled after the hotel bombing, and how Mr Tebbitt responded to his family crisis. His right-wingedness was way in the background at that time.
So I have no doubt there are left and middle 'wingers' who disagree with some of what Mr Cox says and he doesn't say that much for goodness sake, but are sensitive to his recent loss and put political opinions on the back burner.
Farage was totally insensitive, if what is reported is true and it seems so.
