Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
I'm not so sure about that - it's pretty obvious that not all of the article was pasted into the OP.

Also, although I accept that the following will probably lead to me being accused of being an IRA apologist, there are two sides to the argument, as applied to Ireland, outlined in the article. Of course, the Brighton bombing was one of a series of outrages perpetrated by the IRA which cannot, and should never be, condoned, but the inference of the article appears to be that the murder of politicians and/or their family members is somehow worse than all of the other killings carried out, by both sides, in that period lasting from the sixties through to the nineties. I lived through that time and can remember, for example, Bloody Sunday which would, surely, have made a huge impression on many young Catholics in Northern Ireland at that time.

Thirteen years after the Brighton bombing came the Good Friday Agreement which was supported on all sides of the political spectrum - should those who enabled the likes of Gerry Adams and Martin McGuiness to play a part in the governing of Northern Ireland by voting for the agreement also be condemned? Jeremy Corbyn voted in favour of the Good Friday Agreement and I believe that articles like this one

https://www.channel4.com/news/factch...rthern-ireland

offer a more genuine analysis of his attitude towards that country than the one portrayed in the article.

In my opinion, Jeremy Corbyn's weakness when it comes to antisemitism and Brexit raise legitimate questions about his worthiness to become Prime Minister, but I don't think what he said and did about Northern Ireland thirty years and more ago (a time when the political landscape in that area was completely different to what it is now) should preclude him from getting the job.
It is this naivety that sends me loopy on this board. Show me a PM or leading politician who doesn't have a blot on their copybook when hindsight is applied to their decisions. Maggie was besties with a mass muderer, Cameron directly helped jihadis take over libya and Blair inadvertently did the same in Iraq - both managed to destabilise entire regions in a matter of months - we should never fofget these things either. Hindsight applied to Corbyn seems to stick, Hindsight applied to May's ghastly record against minorities whilst in the home office and against the most vulnerable as PM doesn't seem to.

Yes but lets get another 'centralist' as LOM says because they don't do bad things (unless you count mindless decisions that go some way to destroying the world as bad).