Corbyn refuses to condemn the IRA

[Zero Liability]

Shame this guy isn't running here. I bet he wouldn't put in a dividend tax.

[AtW]

Shame this guy isn't running here. I bet he wouldn't put in a dividend tax.

This country needs more eccentric self-made millionaires...

[MicrosoftBob]

Shame this guy isn't running here. I bet he wouldn't put in a dividend tax.

His instructional video on how to remove McAfee A/V is legendry

[SpontaneousOrder]

There is a difference between civilians being killed while targeting genuine military targets - and the outright targeting of civilians.

Drone operators don't go to work saying "Right, let's see how many innocents we can kill today. The more the merrier. Most kills buys the beers later." Terrorists however, often revel is mass civilian casualties, often striving to achieve such.

They just bomb weddings, and then they bomb the funerals for those killed in those weddings

[MicrosoftBob]

For sure.

Former alleged IRA Commanders now in power in NI, it's over now - they get hands shaken by Royalty now -



And British Army of the past wasn't exactly always targeting genuine military targets, and I am not even talking about Dresden here.

Corbyn is entitled to his views, in any case this IRA stuff is completely irrelevant now - peace process is working very well, and future PM will have a lot of issues with economy to deal with, far more important than Hamas, IRA, Hezbolla etc.

P.S. I'd be more concerned about Call Me Dave's fecked up school initiations as it was something he was actually (allegedly) DOING, not having some view of.

At least he didn't sleep with Dianne Abbot unlike Corbyn (allegedly), f**king a pig would seem attractive in comparison

[GlenW]

Corbyn's old enough to know better.



How hard is it to say the IRA did bad things?

About as hard as it is to say the British army did bad things, like Bloody Sunday.

[DodgyAgent]

About as hard as it is to say the British army did bad things, like Bloody Sunday.

Whilst the bloody sunday events were awful they were brought about in an environment of hostility and pressure as a result of the fight against the IRA. Wrong maybe but there were mitigating factors in what was a war like environment. The indiscriminate and deliberate bombing of civilians that were neither protesting nor showing sympathy for any cause of any sort was on another level.
To equate the violence of the IRA with that of the british forces is like equating the beheadings, rapes of ISIL with just any form of killing whether in self defence or in war, whether perpetrated on men, children, women or anyone.

[Danglekt]

According to him British army and IRA were equally culpable for atrocities. Presumably this applies to the UK declaring war against Hitler BBC Radio 5 live - In Short, Jeremy Corbyn asked five times to condemn IRA violence

How do you jump from his not answering a question to him making out the UK and Hilter were equally to blame?

The stuff you come up with is very creative, if always a little focused on supporting your rather obvious bias.

[d000hg]

Being a pacifist IS doing something and so carries responsibilities accordingly. Imagine if he had been prime minister when Hitler was in power and refused to go to war.

Well that's what Britain did do for quite some time. In hindsight, they put it off for far too long, sitting by while one country after another was invaded in the hope that diplomatic pressure would work and "surely he'll stop now".

I don't think the British army generally blew up random civilians.

I don't think there's ever been a war/conflict where armed forces haven't taken out their fear and anger on civilians at times, surely?

[Danglekt]