Current Affairs 2017 General Election

[peteblue]

Weasel words. He did (and IIRC does) support a united Ireland, but no evidence has ever been produced that he "supported the IRA".

Weasel words of yours indeed.......

 

[tsubaki]

Apparently May has a reputation for going to ground whenever there are problems. As I recall, she hardly got involved in the Brexit campaign - could be wrong but I've no real memory of her on the stump or anything. Whilst at the Home Office she apparently had the nickname "The Submarine" because she would disappear as soon as anything bad happened and then pop up again when it was sorted.

According to the study I invariably post on discussions about the EU referendum, she was the joint #14 most visible politician in the EU Referendum, level with Donald Tusk, ahead of Nicola Sturgeon but behind Gisela Stuart.

 

[hullefc]

To deny that Corbyn wanted a united Ireland and supported the IRA is to deny the truth. You can believe whatever you want and spin it so that he is a great man of peace. He was for the IRA a useful fool......

Corbyn wanted a United Ireland and probably still does. But he did not support the IRA's way of doing it - heard it from the horses mouth on many ocassions. I never said he was a 'great man of peace'. He talked to the IRA to try and convince them to give us their way of doing things. The Thatcher government secretly talked to the IRA, so they could give the public appearance that they would not 'deal with terrorists' even though they were. Now that is was a very 'useful fool' to have in your locker.

 

[peteblue]

Mate I grew up in Northern Ireland. Certainly not by choice lol

We've been let down by politicians for 50 years here and if this has taught me anything, it's to be extremely wary and sceptical about politicians and their promises.

I enjoy politics and especially election results and the data side of it, but I find it hard to get excited by any of our current political leaders.

Is the right answer......

 

[peteblue]

Corbyn wanted a United Ireland and probably still does. But he did not support the IRA's way of doing it - heard it from the horses mouth on many ocassions. I never said he was a 'great man of peace'. He talked to the IRA to try and convince them to give us their way of doing things. The Thatcher government secretly talked to the IRA, so they could give the public appearance that they would not 'deal with terrorists' even though they were. Now that is was a very 'useful fo' to have in your locker.

No one used Corbyn as some form of intermediary. He was a pillock then and a pillock now. He was used by the IRA.....

 

[orchard]

Mate that policy was clearly hitting rank and file tory voters, not the poor. Please don't claim it was regressive.

I wasn't really, but it wouldn't effect the wealthy, mainly the demographic that Thatcher cunningly grafted on to the market economy in the eighties.

 

[davmaher]

According to the study I invariably post on discussions about the EU referendum, she was the joint #14 most visible politician in the EU Referendum, level with Donald Tusk, ahead of Nicola Sturgeon but behind Gisela Stuart.

Amazing. I've no recollection of her being involved at all.

 

[peteblue]

Amazing. I've no recollection of her being involved at all.

I thought she'd gone on holiday........

 

[tsubaki]

Amazing. I've no recollection of her being involved at all.

Neither did I, but the truly stealthy one in that debate was Philip Hammond. He doesn't appear in the top 30 at all and was Foreign Secretary at the time.

 

[hullefc]

No one used Corbyn as some form of intermediary. He was a pillock then and a pillock now. He was used by the IRA.....

No one used Corbyn as an intermediary because the British government knew he would not advocate violence and was promoting a peaceful solution. Something the UK government was keen to promote. This would have been clear to the government who would have seen the MI5 files kept on Corbyn. The theme of which have been convenient released during this election.

 

[davmaher]

I thought she'd gone on holiday........

But to somewhere in the UK - just to be on the safe side.

 

[tsubaki]

But to somewhere in the UK - just to be on the safe side.

like John Major going to the dentist, or certain German generals going for "a long walk around the estate" on July 20th 1944

 

[peteblue]

No one used Corbyn as an intermediary because the British government knew he would not advocate violence and was promoting a peaceful solution. Something the UK government was keen to promote. This would have been clear to the government who would have seen the MI5 files kept on Corbyn. The theme of which have been convenient released during this election.

The man was a non entity. Now try reading this....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...rbyn-and-John-McDonnells-close-IRA-links.html

 

[Clint Planet]

Anyway, catastrophic few days for May and the Tories; Corbyn, meanwhile, going from strength to strength. Good to see him condemn the IRA's bombings, too.

 

[peteblue]

Anyway, catastrophic few days for May and the Tories; Corbyn, meanwhile, going from strength to strength. Good to see him condemn the IRA's bombings, too.

Any minute now he'll say he was in favour of nuking the IRA.......