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Joe Cox, Clearing the Right of Way (mural study, Garrett, Indiana Post Office), ca. 1938, oil on canvas mounted on paperboard, 33 1⁄4 x 29 3⁄8 in. (84.3 x 74.6 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the Internal Revenue Service through the General Services Administration , 1962.8.66
"I've lived through a lot, and I've learnt a lot. I'd say I'm a happier person these days. I'm happy with my life now. I've learnt to be contented. I've matured." -Maureen Cox
"She was a very intelligent woman and a wise and loving mother for her kids." -Yoko Ono
"Maureen is my home." -Ringo Starr
"Her style was impeccable until the day she died, maxfields in LA was one of her favorite stores and she almost always wore black. She loved lounging around in black leggings but loved to dress up and was always late to the party as she spent a long fun time getting ready with friends or playing with me." -Augusta King Tigrett
"I loved Maureen, she was down to earth, honest, [...]" -Cynthia Powell
"It really did not surprise my wife or myself when we learned she was half way across the world. In any case it wouldn’t have made any difference. I would have given her permission anyway. Maureen is a sensible girl and well able to take care of herself." -Joe Cox
"Maureen Cox is the girl I most often see when I'm home in Liverpool. She's real pretty and we have a FABULOUS time when we go out." -Ringo Starr
"There wasn't an ounce of bullshit in Maureen. She was authentically, wholly herself. 'I really like Maureen,' I wrote in my diary. 'She's so positive. She makes me think. I must watch her though, because she's a stirrer.' That was the truth; she was always stirring something up." -Chris O'Dell
"One thing is that every person I speak to no matter it be someones grandpa or sting and trudy styler they all say she was the kindest most accepting person they ever knew, and on one or many occasions made them feel welcome when no one else would or when it was not cool to be talking to that person she would invite them to sit at her table and make them feel loved and respected." -Augusta King Tigrett
"Far from being a shy little thing, Maureen was talkative, full of laughter and great fun; we all liked her enormously and thought she was good for Ringo. [ ... ] All of the Beatles ' women got on with each other, but Maureen, who was one of the most down - to - earth, honest people lever knew, became my closest friend." -Cynthia Powell
"She's the sweetest woman on the planet." -Isaac Tigrett
"[ Maureen had ] dark brown hair and painted on heavy eyeliner to create a Cleopatra look. She used no blush at all, so her face looked even paler than I remembered. But what really hit me that day was her perfume - Tabu, I found out later. I swear she must have bathed in it."-Chris O'Dell
"Maureen is a fantastic artist in her own right as well, apart from bringing up that tribe of Ringo's." -John Lennon
( Maureen ) "... knows the moment I face her what's wrong and what to do about it, and I'm happy again in a minute." -Ringo Starr
"She was a fan whose dream had come true. She had started out as one of the hundreds of teenage girls who queued day after day at the Cavern to get close to the front of the stage for the best possible view of the Beatles and in hope that they might catch the eye of one. Every fan had a favorite, and Ringo was hers." -Pattie Boyd
Rest in peace Maureen Cox (1946-1994)
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A game about Bundle Kitt. Music by Joe Cox.
“Whoever debases others is debasing himself.” - JAMES BALDWIN
Over half a century ago Enoch Powell made his infamous "Rivers of Blood" speech wherein he alluded to a prophecy from Virgil’s Aeneid:
“As I look ahead", said Powell,” I am filled with foreboding: like the Roman, I seem to see ‘the River Tiber foaming with much blood'." (Enoch Powell: 20/04/1968)
As with any prophecy, if you wait long enough, it’s almost bound to come true in one form or another. But rather than a “river of blood” caused by irresolvable racial tension, Britain has, in the main, weathered the social changes that mass migration brings with it.
In true dog whistling tradition Powell avoided being overtly racist himself but “quoted” a constituents instead, one who allegedly said:
"In this country in 15 or 20 years' time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man"
As we all know this simply did not happen. By 1988 it wasn’t the "black man" who was the enemy of ordinary working people, it was Margaret Thatcher and her Tory government.
It was Thatcher who raised interest rates and imposed huge spending cuts on the public services ordinary working people depended on. It was the Tory Government that drove unemployment up to 3 million, and it was Powell’s Conservative’s who waged war on trade unions and workers rights. It was Thatcher who was responsible for the deep recession in the early 1980’s and it was Thatcher who, by selling off council houses, kick-started the market trend towards unaffordable rents and house prices we see today.
The last 14 years of Tory government has seen a continuation of Thatcherite policies: public services starved of funding, massive rises in interest rates leading to unaffordable mortgages and rents, rising unemployment, and the resulting cost of living crisis.
Like Powell before him, Nigel Farage likes to blame immigrants for the countries ills and like Powell he is no stranger to the political art of dog whistling. Talking on TV about the Southport murders he asked the “innocent” question:
“Why is it these days whenever something happens, we are told almost immediately it's a non-terror attack?" (Farage: 01/08/24)
Linking the horrendous murder of children in Southport to other, totally unrelated murders elsewhere in the country, he then answered his own question.
“Whenever these things happen there is a reluctance to tell us the full truth.”
There is the dog whistle. The authorities are withholding the truth about murders committed by non-whites. They are, for some reason known only to them, protecting ethnic minority killers and in all likelihood these murders are terror related. If only the police and the authorities would tell us “the truth” then the subsequent extreme right-wing led riots could have been prevented.
“Sometimes just tell the public the truth and you might actually stop riots happening” (Farage:01/08/24)
Light all bigots – left or right – it is only their version of the "truth" that they are interested in. Using the death of three innocent children to advance your own political ambitions is beyond contempt. Brandon Cox, husband of Labour MP Joe Cox who was murdered in a right-wing terror attack, had the measure of Farage when he described him as:
“nothing better than Tommy Robinson in a suit”
Mass immigration does present many problems but they are not problems that will be solved by whipping up hatred and bloodshed on Britain’s Streets. So far, Powell’s predictions have failed to materialise and his prophesy of violence and bloodshed have come to nothing.
Powell did get something right though.
In 1994 Farage wrote asking Powell to endorse him in his election campaign to become an MP. Powell refused. In the event, Farage came forth, with just 952 votes, only just ahead of the candidate for the Monster Raving Looney Party
If only today’s British electorate could see Farage for what he really is: a right wing, self-serving opportunist with not one shred of common decency.
All Our Yesterdays: Day 64
25.09.19. Facing MPs for the first time after the Supreme Court had ruled his decision to close down Parliament was unlawful, Boris Johnson was unrepentant saying the law was "wrong to pronounce on what is a political question". He went on to infuriate many members of the House when he invoked the name of Joe Cox, the murdered Labour MP, in support of his argument.
Caroline Lucas later tweeted
“Utterly shameless & shocking speech from a bullying & bombastic PM – completely at odds with his claims that he wants to bring the country together – whipping up hatred, pedalling lies, & undermining parliament. This is seriously dangerous stuff.”
In The Mail Online yesterday (24.09.20) Janet Street-Porter was quoted as saying:
“Boris has no plan, no credibility and yet he dares blame the VOTERS for the mess we’re in. Thank goodness most people will decide for themselves where they go from here - sod his police state.”
I leave you to decide if Caroline Lucas and Janet Street-Porter were right or not.
