A Belated 'Adieu' to A Rare Politician, British Conservative M.P. Sir David Amess - Like His Labour Party Counterpart Jo Cox, 'Taken Out' By A Mad Misfit of a (Subhu)man In the Very Midst of Carrying Out His Vocational (Parliamentary) Duties...& In a Methodist Church (Of All Places)...

To Be Continued...

Months later! But, anyhow,

In brief (here and now) this rarest of politicians had a fascinating 'bio'(graphy), many bits 'n bobs with a distinct personal resonance (if I do say so), but above and beyond all of that, what impresses me parhaps the most - if you'll forgive my ignoring the personal here to look at the wider (United Kingdom) context:

you can bet yer bottom dollar, that if it'd been (Brexiteer) David Amess and not (Bremainer) Jo Cox murdered in that horrible and ghastly cold-blooded killing just prior to the referendum on June 23rd, 2016...

the Brexit would've passed in a literal canter, the 55:45 opinion polling split in favour of a Brexit (recorded in the days just before Jo Cox met her grisly end) being largely reflected in the result...

No, I can't prove it, but something tells me that'd have been the result, and it'd have helped silence the numerous post-referendum critics endlessly banging on about the *'close result'...

*Sure, a 52:48 percentage margin is not huge by normal standards, still it's well beyond a marginal result (if transposed into say an individual electorate in a general election), and for **my money's worth, at least, a majority of a million-and-third or so is nothing to be sniffed at! 

**Admittedly in the tiddly-wink category these days!

Postscript:

A significant, even relatively sizeable result (in the rather fraught circumstances), greatly assisted by the efforts of not just Nigel Farage - who deserves the lion's share of the credit, let's be in ***no doubt - but moreover (then backbench M.P.) Boris Johnson, who helped deliver not only the referendum result but the subsequent challenge to Conservative leader and then Prime Minister ****Teresa May, and the resounding (even epochal, seismic and historic) general election landslide that soon followed...

***Though, no, upon immediate reassessment, the One Above had the greatest say in the matter, and without His approval the Brexit would've been stillborn, dead in the water from word go...

****An eminently decent and underrated politician, however, but regrettably simply wholly unable to secure the Brexit's legislative enactment into being.