General Election 8th June

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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.

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.

I 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.