Never knew Brendan Cox, his only contribution to my life was the cause of me getting permabanned from DS for making some pithy comment about him doing the Queen's speech on Channel 4
Final word from me (well not me literally) but this post from elsewhere popped up replying to someone else saying the media hounded him sums it up perfectly
'He was exposed as a massive bull artist, we have no idea what effect the articles had on him, we have no idea if he read or was even aware of any of them.
You can't just blag your way through life then dictate how or how often people talk about it when you are found out, what sort of nonsense demand is that?
He was possibly delusional, possibly mentally unwell, and the artificial construct that was his life came crashing down, deservedly so. That could well have been enough for him to do himself in. It could have been many other things that came up from his beclowning that flipped the switch, we have no idea.
It was a bizarre story, with a lot of different viewpoints and that asked a lot of questions of our prestigious universities, dubious initiatives that are held as unquestionably good and society as a whole. Should everyone have whispered behind his back and smiled to his face just in case he killed himself?
He put himself in the position, wasn't shy about promoting himself, took everything that was offered, held himself up as some sort warrior fighting the good fight, he was no innocent victim and the interest in the story was perfectly valid.
If the interest in the story or the articles written were a major contribution to his final decision, even then, so what? Give me his 1.5 million advance and all the rest of what he has blagged and the press can go to town on me, i wouldn't give the slightest duck. We can't coddle people who have done wrong in case they can't deal with any negative outcomes.
I didn't see much in the way of an incendiary pile-on, he had plenty of morons on his side simply because of what he represents, I didn't see people being ridiculously nasty to him, it all seemed measured, pointing out the extent of his balls and asking important questions that have been routinely swept under the carpet.
He would have been fine, he would have been propped up by the same dull-witted bleeps that immediately sprang to his defence and that are now flooding social media and the MSM with absurd claims and accusations. He was well off and there was plenty of scope to continue the grift when it had blown over'
