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I would like to point out that senior figures in the Thatcher government had VERY QUIET meetings with senior IRA representatives. The point is that it is necessary to speak to people with views you loathe, it is politically illiterate to do so openly.
With respect, I knew someone would make this point, which is why I covered it in my original response:
Again and again, Corbyn's 'peace making' only ever involved meeting the anti-west side of things. He's met with every dodgy terrorist group going in Palestine - don't recall him ever sitting down with the Israeli contingent, do you? He met up with the IRA guys an awful lot - don't remember seeing him brokering any meetings with any loyalists, though, do you? His meeting with bad people only ever extends to one side of the debate, and it's always the side which fights against our interests.
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and it's always the side which fights against our interests
TBF most of the time "our interests" are pretty shitty as a country, you could say he's tried to broker peace from the position of our interests, as a man who actually worked for the government, with those who the said interests tend to harm. Sitting down with the loyalists wouldn't really have been necessary if they're already on side with the UK government.
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My apologies, I didn't read with enough care, which was lax of me. However, if Corbyn did not have meetings with those he loathed (I rather doubt he did) that tends to reinforce the point I was making.
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He's met with every dodgy terrorist group going in Palestine - don't recall him ever sitting down with the Israeli contingent, do you? He met up with the IRA guys an awful lot - don't remember seeing him brokering any meetings with any loyalists, though, do you?
Who has met with both sides equally?
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I would like to point out that senior figures in the Thatcher government had VERY QUIET meetings with senior IRA representatives. The point is that it is necessary to speak to people with views you loathe, it is politically illiterate to do so openly.
I went out on a celebratory piss-up when Thatcher shuffled off this mortal coil, but the old bitch was no fool, Corbyn is.