{"id":234949,"date":"2025-07-03T14:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T14:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/234949\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T14:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T14:41:08","slug":"the-great-get-together-celebrates-tolerance-and-community-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/234949\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Get Together Celebrates tolerance and community spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Great Get Together held its annual nationwide celebration on 21 June.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The event was set up by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jocoxfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jo Cox Foundation<\/a>, in memory of the MP who was asasinated in June 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The event celebrates tolerance, and in particular, Cox\u2019s famous statement that we have more in common than divides us.<\/p>\n<p>In this spirit of unity, community groups from across London were invited to perform and cheer each other on at the outdoor Bankside venue.<\/p>\n<p>The acts range from London choirs, Beat Boxers and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swlondoner.co.uk\/tag\/irish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Irish<\/a> dance group, Jig and a Swig.<\/p>\n<p>Political violence in the UK has risen in the last 10 years since Cox\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n<p>Since the 2024 general election, 73% of councillors reported allegations of abuse and intimidation, as 49% of those surveyed said the abuse has increased in the last 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>Jo Cox Foundation CEO Will Fletcher said: \u201cWe believe everyone should be able to get involved in our political discourse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are becoming less willing to accept and engage in good faith with views that aren\u2019t their own and that\u2019s something that we really need to tackle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Great Get Together honours Cox\u2019 legacy by demonstrating hatred has no place in communities as well as politics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Feature Image Credit: Emily Edge <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Great Get Together held its annual nationwide celebration on 21 June. The event was set up by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,12450,393,4884,257,12,285,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-234949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-charity","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114789828751131486","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}