Hmmmm. I could have stayed in and read all this and contemplated politics for the day.But foc it, it's all totally irrelevant anyway, so I went out in the warm spring sunshine for a ride in the Lake District instead:OMG!
JWhy won't TM face JC in a TV debate?.....coz he'd rip her up for arse paper. Make no mistake, they're running scared of JC.
I voted for Brexit, I am not stupid, xenophobic , selfish or any other insult you want to throw and neither are most of the other people I know who voted Brexit.The remainers are just pissed off because we did not vote how the so called experts and liberal elite told us how we should vote.
How can anyone contemplate voting for Mr. Corbyn
his IRA links outweigh any brilliance
I may be biased after 26 years in the Armed Forces but some things cannot be forgiven.
I think the reason is that She ( May ) doesn’t want to give any legitimisation by being in a tv debate with him.
QuoteI think the reason is that She ( May ) doesn’t want to give any legitimisation by being in a tv debate with him.She has a massive lead. Why risk it in a debate? She won’t score points in such debate. Instead she’ll focus on stuff like ‘The One Show’ and talk about who puts the bins out in the May household. Go figure.
QuoteHow can anyone contemplate voting for Mr. CorbynWell first they would have to reside in the right constituency. This is not a presidential election.
Yes go figure -- I figure May is a smart cookie and Corbin less of a smart cookie and more of a ginger nut shortbread.
You are doing it again, stating the bleedin obvious, of course people know that
Quotehis IRA links outweigh any brillianceMr Corbyn was not and is not a member of the IRA.
my issue with him, on the IRA matter, is that he rubbed shoulders with McGuinness and killer Adams, at the height of the troubles, long before they ceased fire, started a dialogue or decommission.
I can't see any valid defence of this.
Quotemy issue with him, on the IRA matter, is that he rubbed shoulders with McGuinness and killer Adams, at the height of the troubles, long before they ceased fire, started a dialogue or decommission.You don’t make peace with your friends.I don’t see what the issue is. It wasn’t long before it was government policy to speak to terrorists, and indeed that’s exactly what Mo Mowlam did. Eventually through dialogue a cease fire and a peace agreement followed.Mr Corbyn has always unequivocally condemned IRA violence, but he has (rightly I say) insisted on acknowledging the role of atrocities like Bloody Sunday and the treatment of IRA prisoners in precipitating radicalisation. QuoteI can't see any valid defence of this.The Thatcher government’s policy was an absolute utter failure. And it cost a heck of a lot of lives. Only when others adopted Mr Corbyn’s approach was progress made.Mr Corbyn’s approach to the IRA is all the more reason to vote for him.
The government of John Major told the IRA via the back channels that no formal, open dialogue was possible until a ceasefire.
I have no problem with those who met with IRA-Sinn Fein after the first ceasefire of the early 90s
Blairs solution to getting his name down for getting the peace solution resolved was, amongst other things, giving 95 ira suspects responsible for at least 300 murders anonymity, and freedom from prosecution. It was a surrender, nothing less. To ordinary people like myself, this contrast with the way the Labour Party betrayed us and protected terrorists compared to the way the liberal left still want to demonise and prosecute soldiers who served in conflicts from the troubles in NI to the Iraq war is repellant.
Feel free to buy into the lies of the right-wing press
QuoteThe government of John Major told the IRA via the back channels that no formal, open dialogue was possible until a ceasefire.Informal talks in other words. They had accepted that their policy over the last decade had failed.
I'd hardly call an absolute expectationg of a ceasefire prior to talks 'splitting hairs'
I suspect the likes of Corbyn would have happily 'given' NI to the Republic without one second of thought to the unionist and protestant community and their human rights or wishes.
How can anyone contemplate voting for Mr. Corbyn, his IRA links outweigh any brilliance (though I think he is an ideological idiot) he may have. I may be biased after 26 years in the Armed Forces but some things cannot be forgiven. I'd lock him up.Labour have no chance, they are not trusted or trustworthy and screwed up so many things last time. I'm not a 'Dyed in the wool' Tory voter, never went to University (got some O levels), come from a line of Joiners and Miners and am from County Durham, a labour stronghold, but wouldn't vote labour ever, I wouldn't let them run my bath, let alone a country. Imagine having Diane Abbot in charge of stuff, she's one of their top politicians, scary.
I have a question for VNA. Why does Nicola Sturgeon want to be in on Brexit negotiations when as far as the SNP is concerned, Scotland is going to be independent in the not-too-distant future, and will remain a part of the EU? I'm puzzled as to why she wants to be in on deciding the rest of the UK's fate. It doesn't seem right to me.
Not going to get into a keyboard warrior discussion about my views so have quoted myself along with a screenshot (of which there are a number) of a little light reading from the press. Please don't misquote me.
I see Corbyn has said a Labour government will now build new Nuclear powered Submarines to replace Trident.
…So what do you do if you don't trust Labour on defence or the economy, but you don't trust the Tories for a fair society? And you think UKIP are now irrelevant? And you think the Greens are a joke? And you're concerned about how Brexit goes, but you never quite trusted the direction the EU is going in? Sometimes, I'm just so confused