I couldn't be more diametrically opposed to what you suggest. The press didn't have the freedom or discourtesy to disrespect the american government back in those days. Times have changed since the 60's, pretty much since the vietnamese war when the press grew of age and the government lost the media war. The british press stopped doffing their cap's around the same time and put every politician under scrutiny, both left and right. Corbyn's links with the IRA and Sein Fein were in the press many years ago. He invited them into Parliament as guests. My point is not that he shouldn't have done so. Just that there were negotiations going on, that he may well not have been involved in, but his involvement on the periphery didnt make those negotiations any easier.
Yep it might have muddied the waters, but for me that's not the most heinous crime a politician can be associated with. Why don't the politicians who create war and sell arms get as much criticism ? At least he was trying to foster dialogue and build bridges. The mainstream media and Tory party though try to use it as a complete character assassination on the guy, because they are **** scared that he represents a massive challenge to the status quo that they enjoy.
I'd say it's every Politican's business to try and foster peace. But I do understand that it might have muddied the waters. Perhaps Thatcher's govt should have been a bit more open about their dialogue with the IRA, instead of the 'no surrender' sabre rattling talk.
He was against the rule of N.I. by the British and wanted to see British troops withdrawn from there.
Member of Parliament. Part of whose job, in a democracy, is holding the government of the day to account. If Tony Blair's govt had listened to the handful of backbench MPs, like Jeremy Corbyn, who opposed the invasion of Iraq, we wouldn't have entered a long and bloody war we could never win, and British soldiers wouldn't have been coming home in body bags for years on end.
Reading the exchanges above, presumably there'll be a rush of posts on here from people praising Trump for cutting the funding to US troops in Syria prior to pulling them out ASAP and leaving the region to sort itself out.
Don't know. But there was unequivocal UN support for military intervention in 1991, following Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
This is the problems with Racist Labour supporters, never face when they are wrong. I knew Corbyn's Labour was too good to be true. It's like Liverpool taking a 3-0 lead against Palace only to throw it all away and the title with it.
VOTE Labour, the RACIST party for a FREE Europe, March for anti Brexit and suck off Germany by denying the Holocaust. I'm going to be perfectly honest, I'm jerking off big style over this, we've been listening to REMOANERS banging on for over 18 months, Karma bro, Karma.
I’m not sure how anti-semitism in the Labour Party is supposed to equate to something truly dumb, like Brexit. In the words of Michael Bloomberg, “Brexit is the stupidest thing any country has ever done, apart from electing Donald Trump as president”
I guess in Madrid you struggle to keep up with the media on the mainland. The plight in the Congo has suddenly become the leading story So what are your views on Corbyn and Labour NSIS, as a baton wielding Madridite I've not seen you condemning either. Strange that STAND UP AGAINST RACISM...OUT WITH THE LABOUR PARTY
Yes. But as an MP for Britain I would have thought he'd be trying to find common ground with Sinn Fein, rather than simply backing them as the media have liked to make out.
