Looks excellent Ray.
I was reminded of a transport company in France called ‘Decons’ who changed their name to SDTL probably to save embarrassment.
I thought that was celanese😀
Jo Cox’s sister chosen as Labour candidate in forthcoming by-election for murdered MP’s former seat
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Thank you Kirstea, I wonder what the specific reason was for choosing it.
A nice gesture, whatever it was.
Yes, as per Kirstea’s post, it happened in Avallon (Yonne dpt) in May 2017:
Wasn’t Jo Cox and her husband very active with the Oxfam movement? Could that have been the influence?
Not sure why Jo Cox was chosen, I don’t know if there are any specific reason as such apart from the then Socialist municipality wanting to honour Jo Cox’s memory. Avalon is twinned with a Kent town so no connection with Jo Cox AFAIK, it was maybe partly thanks to her Oxfam past as there’s been the Oxfam trailwalker d’Avalon since 2009, not sure. I think the mairie was keen to change the odonymy as the previous name was Rue Pierre-Étienne Flandin, a local politician who died in the 1950s and who was suspected of being a collabo (he was trialled in 1946 as part of the 300,000 trials of the Épuration légale process).
There’s a Place Jo Cox in Brussels too (inaugurated in 2018), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0r0El5HSEQ (that’s her sister at the very end of the clip, possibly with her parents, the sister who’s considering running as Labour candidate in Jo Cox’s Batley and Spen constituency in the 1st July by-election).
Yes, it does seem that Oxfam might be the connection in part but I see that a connection with anti-Brexit was made in the Brussels case as well.