Jo Cox: Brussels square to be named in Labour MP's honour

Name of politician killed on eve of EU referendum to be given to square near concert hall

Daniel Boffey in Brussels

Tributes to Jo Cox, who lived in Brussels for about six years, during which she worked for the MEP Glenys Kinnock and Oxfam, before being elected to as an MP. 

A square behind a popular concert hall in Brussels is to be named in honour of Jo Cox, the Labour MP murdered in her constituency by a far-right terrorist, as part of a drive to increase female representation on the streets of the Belgian capital.
A junction by the city centre venue, Ancienne Belgique, to which Cox was a frequent visitor, has been chosen to carry the politician’s name.
The 41-year-old MP, who was killed shortly before the 2016 referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU, had lived in Brussels for about six years. During her stay in the city she worked for the MEP Glenys Kinnock and Oxfam, where she was head of policy, before being elected to the House of Commons in 2015.

Mohamed Ouriaghli‏, an MP representing Brussels, tweeted: “On 27.09 at 1pm, Helen Joanne Cox will have her name attributed to the place located at the back of the Ancienne Belgique, a place she frequented during her stay at #BXL. This event is in her honour and in the wish to feminise the squares and street names of the @VilleBruxelles”.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/aug/27/jo-cox-brussels-square-to-be-named-in-her-honour

NWN: Have the Belgians even heard of this woman ? Certainly most of us in the UK never have..............until she died.

We wonder if the 'square' is near to the mannequin pis fountain ?

This story/award, is to keep the 'extra' second vote for BREXIT in the 'publics eye'. No doubt !  The 'money power ' will stop at nothing to get what they want.