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He isn’t a terrorist sympathiser he is a pacifist.
Egg, check out his voting record on anti terrorism bills.
Well done, Snowblind, by the way for being able to selectively copy and paste from Wikipedia. If you insist on judging him by the positions he adopted 40 years ago, I expect you are similarly disgusted that at the same time the Tories denounced Nelson Mandela as a “dangerous terrorist”, that Mrs Thatcher had the murderous dictator general Pinochet in Downing Street, and was also selling arms arms to prop up Saddam Hussein. These were the same, nice Tories who denounced striking miners as “the enemy within”, and used the aforementioned police, special branch land MI5 to distort the events at Orgreave and Hillsboroygh, and cover up systematic child abuse by politicians visiting children’s homes. Maybe you trust these Tories but I suspect that, given half the chance, they’ll discredit the victims of the Grenfell tower fire and obfuscate its rather obviously political causes in just the same way.. Carry on.Martin, I don’t vote Tory so I’m not sure why you’re bringing them into it, I was commenting on Corbyn and his sympathy’s toward terrorism.
Anyway thanks for the complement regarding my copying and pasting skills if I’m being honest I was amazed I managed to pulled it off.
In 1984 Corbyn and Ken Livingstone were criticised for inviting two convicted Provisional IRA members as well as Gerry Adams and other members of the Irish Republican party Sinn Féin to Westminster three weeks after the Brighton hotel bombing, an attack carried out by the IRA that killed five people.[47][48][49] He became known during the 1980s for his work on behalf of the Guildford Four and Birmingham Six, who were eventually found to have been wrongly convicted of responsibility for a series of bombings carried out in England in the mid-1970s by the IRA that killed 28 people.[50][51][52][53][54] In the run up to the 2017 General Election, Corbyn said that he had “never met the IRA”, although Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott later clarified that although he had met members of the IRA, “he met with them in their capacity as activists in Sinn Fein”.[55][56]
Corbyn was arrested in 1986 for protesting against the trial of a group of IRA members including the Brighton Bomber Patrick Magee. Magee was convicted of murdering five people and the group were convicted of planning a “massive bombing campaign in London and seaside resorts”. After refusing police requests to move from outside the court, Corbyn and the other protesters were arrested for obstruction and held for five hours before being released on bail, but were not charged.[57] Following the 1987 Loughgall ambush, in which 9 IRA members were killed while trying to blow up a police station, he attended a commemoration by the Wolfe Tone Society and stated “I’m happy to commemorate all those who died fighting for an independent Ireland’.[58][59]
In the early 1990s, MI5 opened a file on Corbyn over fears his IRA links meant he could have been a threat to national security.[60][61] The Metropolitan Police’s Special Branch was also monitoring Corbyn at the time, and continued to monitor him for two decades over fears he was attempting to “undermine democracy”.[62][63] According to The Sunday Times, following research in Irish and Republican archives, Corbyn was involved in over 72 events connected with Sinn Fein, or other pro-republican groups, during the period of the IRA’s paramilitary campaign.[64]
Corbyn supported the campaign to overturn the convictions of Jawad Botmeh and Samar Alami for the 1994 bombing of the Israeli Embassy in London; Botmeh and Alami had admitted possessing explosives and guns but denied they were for use in Britain. The convictions were upheld by the High Court of Justice in 2001 and by the European Court of Human Rights in 2007.[65][66] What a guyGrow up. He’s clarified many times that it was a minute’s silence for everyone who died in Ireland. The people he shared a platform with renounced violence and were until very recently the elected government of Northern Ireland.Probably explain why he never called for the IRA to lay down their arms and voted against every anti terrorism bill put before him. Grow up! you try waking up!
Isnt choosing not wearing a poppy your right under free speech??I can see why people dont wear em (i do) cos some will disagree with our wars over the years and tbh with the media its turned into an “im better than you” contest. Trying to have the largest sparkliest poppy. Sad reely.
Good point SSB but in Corbyns case deciding not to wear a poppy is one thing but when he attends SF events honouring IRA dead and standing in silence as a mark of respect to those dead, as at the same time not showing any respect to the people that gave their today for our tomorrows is despicable. For me he can go and f**k himself.
Getting back to the subject of Glastonbury it’s been quite a few years since I last attended a music festival but I don’t seem to remember these sterile areas in front of the stage. What are the musicians scared of, being hit with a bottle of piss or is it they just don’t want to see real people.
Anyway it never happened in my day.
It’s funny how time plays tricks with you I remember him as a England legend but on looking it up he only won 13 caps. Still can only be a good thing having him at the club.
Who mentioned May? Talking about that opportunistic prick being at Glastonbury. Should have been watching his idiotic generals talking bollocks again. Notice she’s suddenly got well again now after their failed effort in the general election.To be fair Donny, Jessa is probably there just so he cam tuck into some magic mushrooms or should that be magic money trees.
i think some of you are letting time cloud your judgement a bit – Harry Maguire was one of the few bright spots that seasonNothing do with time it’s the ale that I’m blaming.
Who would vote for a man that doesn’t wear the red poppy, sing the national anthem, and will arm us with handbags to fight a war, and has had rumpy pumpy with Dianne Abott.Plus it’s easy to promise the earth in your manifesto if you know that you have not a cat in hell’s chance of being in the seat of power, in the first place. At least it disrupts the opposition for a while.
Worst Labour mon in my lifetime. Andy Burnham would have been a better shout.
Shape yourself Lostock, you forgot to mention that he voted against every anti terrorism legislation put before him.
A man of peace, total bollocks! voted against the Anglo Irish agreement.
Sad to see him go, He always came across as a happy chirpy type of character he’ll have no problem getting a job as a presenter on CBeebies.
