Brendan Cox - Save the Children

calling a customer sweetheart is sadly risky in this day and age

i hope you took it as a compliment, as you say, plenty would find offence

I certainly did donny. Made me feel younger!

World's gone quackers

me duck

save the children 176 cases in 3 years apparently!!!!

Will they get after St Brendan, or will he be airbrushed out of any enquiry?

and 30 plus at another charity headed by a well known Labour politician allegedly!!!

Save the Children, which in 2016 secured multi-year contracts worth £91m with the government, had 31 cases, 10 of which were referred to the police. The British Red Cross, which admitted a “small number of cases of harassment reported in the UK”, received £16.3m in funding from the Department for International Development.

from an article in the guardian   - 91 million quid!!!!???

Incredible Mo , How the fck some of these cxnts on Massive salaries can sleep at night is Beyond belief ,they have no interest in the Charities what so ever ,,,

Volunteers could run them Retired People , Rich people who don't need a salary I am sure many would do it on a part time basis ....

As Donny said Volunteers were doing Paid workers work Any way ..

quell surprise only surprise is that people are surprised,the world of care,charity etc chocker with wrong,uns

Yup, "The world shalt be deceived" ...

Didn't Milipede cross the pond for one of these well paid jobs ? Politics just seems to be an interview for quangos now.

.... just after a nice earner for arranging sponsorship for some ex prem league club?

I am intrigued by the guardian's avoidance of the scandals in certain charities which involve Labour members.  The silence is deafening - that wouldn't be down to political bias and doesn't suit there narrative. But they are quiet happy to promote a sexist women only book fair. ho ho   No agenda there ho ho

i am watching a woman only skeleton competition, is that sexist iyo?

Me too Donny, I'm on V Beckham (GB) @1.67

of course the loud ones' icons of probity - teflon coated - will escape criticism

Mr Cox has resigned - https://news.sky.com/story/brendan-cox-husband-of-murdered-mp-jo-quits-chari...

From his statement.

The Mail on Sunday reports that in the year before his wife was fatally shot and stabbed by a far-right terrorist during the Brexit referendum campaign in June 2016, Mr Cox sexually harassed a Save the Children worker outside a bar in London.

In a statement to Sky News, the 39-year-old acknowledged the "mistakes" he had made before leaving the charity, but said a further allegation in the newspaper that he forced himself on a woman during a trip to Harvard University was a "massive exaggeration".
"I want to apologise deeply and unreservedly for my past behaviour and for the hurt and offence that I have caused," he said.


Mr Cox continued: "While I do not accept the allegations contained in the 2015 complaint to the police in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I do acknowledge and understand that during my time at Save the Children I made mistakes and behaved in a way that caused some women hurt and offence.
"This was never malicious but it was certainly inappropriate.
"In the past I have focused on disputing what I felt was untrue in the allegations, but I realise now that it's more important to take full responsibility for what I have done.
"I am committed to holding myself to much higher standards of personal conduct in the future."

after what we have seen of the lack of investigation and lack of pursuing complaints - yeah!! right

anyone googled Labour people involved with charities

it makes interesting reading

I am sure there are plenty of tory involvement sucking at the teat - massive salaries being taken

Cox gone. Lmao at the countless mugs who have lauded this creep.

Quite a few clues in his statement that he is indeed a creep Saddo.

It will be amusing to watch how the Guardian, BBC et al disown the Saint.

was promised a labour seat

A predatory misogynist lecturing the masses about hatred.

come on the lovely jess and the other labour luvies who,ve been shoving the cox family down our throats as a paragon of virtue on how to lead your lives, LETS BE HAVING YOU, does this mean he,ll no longer be lecturing us on the folly of leaving the EU, IHO

"I am committed to holding myself to much higher standards of personal conduct in the future",yes I bet you are wac,will no doubt have built a nice portfolio of state/good causes linked pensions to fall back on as he slinks away only to no doubt reappear at a later date,surprised he hasn't used the "need to devote all my time to my children etc" line.

Mail on sunday headline: "Yes i'm a sex pest confesses Jo Cox's husband",bloody brilliant!

Given this he should have kept his head down after his poor wife was murdered.

Can't find this on the Guardian website. Anyone got a link?

Is he barred from Centerparcs yet?

Peston gave it 30 seconds, Labour's Jess Phillips bigging Bren up (she loves him).

you have to love the guardian - no word on their hero but two articles one on Actors and activists join forces on BAFTA red carpet to end sexism and Selma blair on hollywoods sex scandal -but where is the paragon of virtue and his news.

Andrew Marr on the BBC described Cox’s sexual abuse as a sad story for this poor man and what he’s been through.

but he did this before jo cox's death??

'Following the murder of his wife, there were reports that Mr Cox was lined up to succeed her Labour MP for Batley and Spen in Yorkshire, but he did not do so. The Mail on Sunday has been told Labour officials advised against it because of rumours about his behaviour.'

This from the Mail. They knew damn well he'd never be able to deflect this sort of criticism. He should have withdrawn from public life after his wife's murder. You'd have thought the 'media etc' would have kept their distance rather than presenting him as some sort of moral  guardian.

oh yes   !!   - and it is all the fault of right wing knuckle draggers for picking on these poor liddle charity worker diddums coz it ain't fair as they cower in their nice big homes hiding from the press - how very dare they

Was number 6 in the Guardian's 'most viewed' 20 minutes ago, now out of the top 10 (red carpet sexism is number 5). The poor Guardianistas can't bear to read it, apparently.

No more holier than thou tweets all over the Beeb news page .........the Beeb , Guardian and other limp liberals will be dreadfully upset

porcypine and co probably choking on the muesli today.

These actions do seem to be common within the left.

Unfortunately they are common everywhere, but hypocrisy adds to the crime in this case imo.

if you can be bothered you can google cox  - his Labour connections - I have mentioned before - are  interesting - if you see who he worked with in the party etc  - I will say no more

I just watched owen jones celebrating brendan cox  - oh dear !! there will have to be a lot of backtracking here - how embarrassing for all the progressives

Feb 18, 2018 -- 10:43AM, saddo wrote:

Was number 6 in the Guardian's 'most viewed' 20 minutes ago, now out of the top 10 (red carpet sexism is number 5). The poor Guardianistas can't bear to read it, apparently.

Only uploaded at 10.03 today. That's why I couldn't find it this morning. The story actually broke yesterday. Also, this piece paints a slanted sympathetic picture of what is just a sex predator.

Jones seems a vile individual.

Ffs,just seen this Phillips woman on Peston,clearly struggling to condemn him and finishes off by saying I can see that Brendan is doing more to address his faults than most who have done similar,what an absolute xxxx she is.These lefties are deluded with self importance.

Embarrassing

khyber kim 18 Feb 18 09:48
Is he barred from Centerparcs yet?

yes but phillips is a big buddy isn't she?  it is far too embarrassing for them to be critical as they are linked in support for the same agenda they have had

Jones is the only person on this planet that i would punch if i saw him on a day out, his narrow minded logic is so flawed its embarrassing.

Can't believe he is out of short trousers.

He might still be into em, ho ho.

Cox news

GOOD NEWS FOR US LABOUR PARTY MEMBERS    He is ONLY stepping down for THE TIME BEING  -  oh dear!!!

They'll rehabilitate the perve soon enough, he just needs a little time to come to terms with his past behaviour.

Still awaiting MeToo's response. Emma Thompson and that Harry Potter bird must comment soon shirley?

If you see who he was working with as an advisor within the party you may realise the sort of arrogant twts he was working with - guess it must have rubbed off on him poor chap

I was lectured by porky about bbc and sky non bias yet we have clear evidence of this when sky glossed over the pritti patel story about government lack of action when she was minister - she had 'pushback' from her own department but sky just didn't want to know.

keep repeating the mantra 'BBC SKY NOBODY BIASED'  and eventually you will believe.

Oh dear Coxy, what have you done ? 

Brendan Cox - paragon of virtue NOT, paragon of virtue signalling ? hold my beer

paragon of virtue signalling 

Charity Industry Rife with Pervs and wrong uns ..

now unable to give the knuckle draggers a thrashing with Cox, Channel 4 have switched to cheddar man to give you all another pasting!!!

the progressives are relentless - get with the agenda before they get you - maybe when you are sat in your favourite cafe!!

ho ho

jamesdean has bought into it already 

The hypocrisy of the loony lefties knows no bounds it seems. Owen Jones has no shame whatsoever, apparently. Will the media and fellow lefties give this loony a swerve from now on? Yeah, right!

2 of the charities that Cox campaigned for following his wife's death: White Helmets and Hope Not Hate.

£2m raised..

Hope Not Hate basically opposes UKIP. That was their mission prior to the referendum and continues today.

White Helmets: Some high-ranking western politicians, including British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, have openly expressed their support for the group. “I’m proud to say we’re giving them I think £32 million [US$39.78 million] funding as part of a wider £65 million package for non-humanitarian aid,” Johnson had said.

In the meantime, videos spread online have hinted that the group might have connections to some terrorist organizations such as Al Nusra. One video demonstrated what seemed to be White Helmets taking part in an execution of a civilian.

The group’s leader, Raed Al-Saleh, was denied entry into the US in April 2016 but was allowed back in September. US State Department spokesman Mark Toner struggled to explain Al-Saleh’s travel ban and eventually admitted that he is “suspected of having ties … with the extremist groups.”

https://www.rt.com/news/363363-white-helmets-funded-west/

will the hypocrites at the BAFTAs be making a statement on mr cox?

save himself

dirty wrong un  Cox is probably round dirty traitor Corbyns for dinner

is there worse to come

Has Corbyn Retrieved his flowers yet ??

the odious jess Philips gets up in the commons and lambasts 300 blokes at a private dinner for been served voluntarily  by hostess girls but today on live tv says she wont be falling out over her sex pest and probably worse Brendan cox,she should be getting absolutely hammered by male mp,s in the commons,she,s basically saying you can have a role in public live if your a sexual predator as young as you no your asexual predator and her friend of course

so now we see how you cant trust the mob. Now who knows what Cox has done, if anything, what abouit the thousands of good people doing good work who now are under suspicion
Silly people in Britain and in other countries saying how awful western countries like Britain are, well it is countries like Britain, it is British people and British money and time and expertise that is going to help these sh!tehole countries
Have they no responsibility themselves and are they thankful for the good work done by many selfless people
Now they are starting with the usual colonial sh1te, well its like this that was a long time ago, grow up and take responsibility for the mess your own country is in
Are they thankful, no quite the opposite
no one likes to be thankful

Where there parties? so what, as long as the people going to these parties were adults that is up to them. The work is being done and there will be an occasional party,
good

yes colonialism is the latest buzzword - these people are just plain weird

talking of weird have you seen the people coming out and defending Cox -  all his Labour friends and more

you see - he is the right flavour - anyone else and they are a sex predator - the hypocrisy - it stinks

The Mail are playing an odd game, a page by a journo friend of his today saying he deserves a second chance. I thought he got that when STC let him escape justice by resigning.

Agree saddo,possibly Platell got them the interview with him yesterday on the condition she could support him today,She's gone well down in my estimation,hopefully Littlejohn may stick the knife in tomorrow.

Cox's interview with the Mail is appalling. He mentions being flirtatious (while being married..) and then the accusation comes about him holding a woman by the throat...

Slammed A woman up against a wall Grabbing her By the Throat and telling he wanted to Fook her , Pished out of his brains after a works Drink up,

if this True Shirley C0cks Should have been arrested for assault ?

Throat grabbing seems to be less newsworthy in some quarters than pu**y grabbing is. Odd that.

Maybe Trump is more headline news that Brendan Cox?  Just a thought

than*

US President or Brendan.. You deceide who's most likely newsworthy..

NO - they just don't want to talk about their idol who has been more than found out after lecturing us all about morals and clubbed the knuckle draggers with his 'I have the high ground' arrogance.

brendan jo the guy who shot her

just sums up what a perfect (please insert expletive of your choice) place the UK is to live in

Ex-Save the Children chief executive Justin Forsyth has resigned from Unicef as he says he does not want coverage of his past to "damage" the charities.


Surely its time for # HIM TOO

it is interesting to see who mr cox and mr forsyth worked for previously - there's plenty more Labour charity workers

any prominent tory boys in there ??

Close to Gordon Brown according to this Times piece, moisok.

Brie O’Keefe has flashbacks, when she watches The Thick Of It. The yelling, the tantrums, Malcolm Tucker. “[It] brings me totally back to when I worked in that office.”

The office was the London headquarters of Save the Children UK where she worked with Justin Forsyth, the former Labour strategist, and his “wunderkind” Brendan Cox, who was brought in as director of policy as soon as Mr Forsyth became chief executive.

Out went the fuddy duddy image of the high street charity shop; in came humanitarian awards for Tony Blair and celebrity campaigns sending the likes of Stacey Solomon, the X Factor finalist, to combat maternal mortality in Malawi.

The No 10 insiders brought their brutal bullying culture and, according to their former co-workers, it was their younger, female colleagues who paid the price. To the dismay of their team at Save the Children, both men were allowed to “walk away” from serious complaints of sexual harassment, reputations intact, CVs unblemished, ready for the next top job, saving the world.

“The two of them coming in short order really perpetuated the culture of Gordon Brown’s No 10 that moved into Save the Children — yelling, bad temper, unrealistic expectations, lots of bullying,” said Ms O’Keefe, who worked there from the age of 28 to 31.

Mr Cox was the “brazen philanderer”, Mr Forsyth the bully, she said. Young women made up about 80 per cent of the office demographic. “Justin was extremely unapproachable. It wasn’t uncommon to see him stomping around in a foul mood, yelling at people for a thing as benign as a taxi his PA booked not taking him where he wanted to go or screaming to senior managers, across the open plan office, ‘How difficult is it for you to just do what I want you to do?’

“I’m quite a tough person but it was a really hard place to work.”

Mr Cox was more popular. At first, he was even inspiring. He called himself a feminist and threw great parties, paying for the alcohol. When visiting country directors or VIPs came to London, it was an honour to be invited to the houseboat on the Thames, which he shared with his children and wife, Jo. But his behaviour made savvier colleagues uneasy. “Things could cross the line with whoever was around at the end of the night. Usually it was the youngest staff.”

Older women found themselves policing the dancefloor to shield younger colleagues from his advances on nights out. In the office, they would intervene to stop “unsavoury flirting”. His daily 5pm “catch-up” with the team looked more like “a gathering of the harem”.

While the younger women received warnings from managers, “there wasn’t anyone talking to Brendan about the appropriateness of his behaviour” Ms O’Keefe said. “Even just propositioning someone younger over whom you are in a position of authority puts them in a very awkward position. I’ve seen girls getting texts at 2am saying, ‘Come and have a drink with me’. Nobody was challenging him. He answered to nobody except Justin and that was a huge problem.”

Sophie Walker, head of the Women’s Equality Party, replied to one of Mr Cox’s texts, in an open letter this week. “Did you ever pursue anyone who could fire you? Anyone who could say no without fearing the consequences?”

Faiza Shaheen, director of the Class think tank, said the two years she spent working in his department at Save the Children were “easily the worst working experience I’ve had”.

Alexia Pepper De Caires, 39, volunteered as a witness in the internal investigation into Mr Cox’s alleged sexual harassment, when she left the charity in 2015. She was unaware that her former boss had been accused of holding a colleague by the throat at a Christmas party, which he denied, but she wanted to tell the panel about the “very strange sexual dynamic in the office” and “predatory behaviour” at parties. “Brendan was a law unto himself,” she said. So she was “beyond baffled and angry” when, the day before the hearing was due to begin, she was told her evidence wouldn’t be needed: the disciplinary process had been dropped upon Mr Cox’s sudden resignation. “I was enraged because we never got to understand what had happened.”

That anger was shared by many, Ms O’Keefe said. “His political effectiveness and even Justin’s were put above our safety. We were not seen as being as important as these two people who had contacts and were good at their jobs.”

The most galling part, they agreed, was seeing both men fail upwards.

Within weeks of Mr Cox’s departure, Ms De Caires saw him at two big events in New York: once at a UN summit and again watching Beyoncé from the VIP stands at a fundraising concert in Central Park. “I felt sick,” she said. “I could see him still in the thick of it, standing next to Save the Children members of staff . . . We were ignored while the problem was allowed to wander the corridors of power, with impunity.”

Save the Children did not give Mr Cox a reference. But who would need references, she said, when your ally had landed a top job with Unicef? Mr Forsyth did get a reference, despite the formal complaint over his inappropriate behaviour. He resurfaced seven months later in New York as deputy director of Unicef.

Their carefully managed exit from Save the Children and Oxfam’s cover-up in Haiti were part of the same problem, Ms De Caires said.

Her colleagues were “predominantly white women, many of whom had Master’s degrees. “If these women can’t be safe in their workplace, what chance does a young woman in Haiti have? After that, I was constantly angry that people who supposedly cared about others didn’t even care about the women in their own workplace.” They feared that speaking out meant damaging an organisation they loved. The murder of Jo Cox compounded the dilemma further. “Seeing [Mr Cox] become this champion of humanity was unbearable,” Ms De Caires said.

Both women have since left the world of international aid. “It’s no longer a sector I have any faith in,” Ms De Caires said. “I can’t see any justice at any level.”

Ms O’Keefe said she was “haunted by the legacy of working there”.

Save the Children has apologised to women employees who complained of inappropriate behaviour by Mr Forsyth, admitting that their claims were not properly dealt with at the time.

Both men have apologised for their “mistakes” and for any hurt and offence caused. It is not enough for Ms O’Keefe. “I really admired Brendan and he disappointed me and many other people with his hypocrisy and his behaviour. I want accountability. Save the Children let them walk away.”

Totally disgusting.

The charity sector and this international bodies like Unicef need a massive shake up.

No one should be paid massive salaries and partying at VIP concerts while claiming to work in this field.

An incredible article saddo.

3 things seem to be common among so many scandals.

1) the initial crimes
2) the cover up
3) the promotion of those involved which suggests a wider scale of corruption.


These are the ones I can think of:

Blair became Middle East Peace Envoy for example
John Scarlett who approved Blair's 'dodgy dossier' at the Joint Intelligence Comittee, became the Head of MI6!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Saville became a Knight of the Realm
Clegg lied his way into Coalition which led to the destruction of his party, he lost his seat, the EU referendum and he gets a Knighthood!

Cressida Dick was a Commander in the Met and was heavily criticised in her role in the killing of Charles de Menezes. The following year she was promoted to Assistant Comissioner.

And now this business with Cox and Forsyth.

I just wish a male employee who cared more about women than his career kicked them in the gonads until they cried for Mummy.

Yes,thanks for that Saddo,unfortunately when the dust has settled Cox will no doubt reappear in some righteous form or other with backing from the usual suspects.

Watching the sickening events surrounding Jo Cox's death gave me an uncomfortable feeling that he was in some way enjoying the attention despite what had happened. He should play no part in public life after that spell in Save the Children.

I had similar thoughts treetop.

It was calculated. The way Cameron, Cox and others used Jo's death for the Remain campaign was very disturbing.

now unless I am mistaken women and men were at these parties, what happened at these parties that doesn't happen at every party?
Now of course should there have been parties, but that's a different question

Is it possible to have a party, even a works party were no one flirts or anything or that nature takes place
Well I suppose anythings possible I read it somewhere

99,9% of companies have 0ne if any, partys at xmas ,yet Oxfam have a code of conduct of how to behave at a party ,ffs if you have to to train people running world wide charity,s  how to behave in public ,what chance have you got

do joe public who attend weddings etc have to read a code of conduct on how to behave before they go ,because of the fear they,ll go around sexual harassing other guests

There shouldnt need to be a code of conduct,chat people up by all means but the offensiveness of foisting unwanted attention on a woman shouldn't need any explaining whatsoever.

now Labour have 43 accusations   and where did this gentleman and his boss come from ?  funny old world

fed up not playing around in government they went off to pastures new

It has become interesting to note how many Labour people have been given well paid positions in quangos and charities.So much for the bonfire of the quangos that Cameron and Osborne promised.