I’m starting to think that we are not going to agree on Corbs and the Labour top table, raging.
I don’t want to take an unfair point, so I would like to check: Your initial position on the Labour top table and PIRA, Hamas, and Hezbollah was that they were not sympathisers and that Corbs was, instead, actually taking part in a one man peace process that involved talking to only one side of the argument. Your current position seems to be that they were justified in being sympathisers because of ‘British state sponsored terrorism’ and because of the almost-child- like ‘Britain started it’. Is that correct?
My position – again - is that I don’t care who started it – blowing up children in Warrington or people enjoying a drink in Birmingham, Guildford and other similar atrocities weren’t in any way justified. By anything.
I can understand what you would have preferred Abbott to have talked about how it was the trauma of what happened to her ancestors several hundred years ago that caused her to say of PIRA
"Every defeat of the British state is a victory for all of us. A defeat in Northern Ireland would be a defeat indeed". If she had said it, you wouldn’t have had to make up that excuse for her.
I don’t want Abbott as Home Secretary – responsible for the safety and security of the citizens of this country - particularly if her unresolved trauma at historic events is clouding her judgement and leaves her desiring defeats for the British state.
On Press TV, we have the line that Corbs used it as an opportunity to raise Human Rights abuses in that country, even though we know that in 2014, he was praising Iran for it’s ‘Tolerance and acceptance of other faiths, traditions and ethnic groupings in Iran’ (no mention there of its lack of tolerance for gay people, women who will not toe the ‘modesty’ line, anyone critical of the Iranian state and others). You’ve clearly been looking to find the EDMs and so I’m sure you’ll be able to find many Press TV clips in which he takes Iran to task on Human Rights for us to enjoy.
What really troubles me is the dishonesty that appears to have become a hallmark of the Labour spin machine. We have the three different explanation for Corbs support of the mural , we have the whitewash job for his association with terrorist groups and his ‘present but not participating’ excuse for his attendance at the wreath laying for dead terrorists. We even have the lies about the lack of seats on a train. You’ll be aware that Corbs went on national TV to say that his association with Press TV ended after the crushing of dissident protestors in 2009. You’ll also be aware that he actually appeared on there until 2012.
I came upon this article:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/lond...-a3899281.html
I appreciate that it comes from the Evening Standard and so will be dismissed out of hand, but, again, we see support for a convicted terrorist ‘brother’ and the post-truth explanation by Labour. It never ends.