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Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

Let’s get one thing straight, Corbyn does not take the side of terrorists, he takes the side of something he considers an injustice he’s a rebel with a cause but he’s a rebel who is always looking at ways to find a peace process and the one thing that’s apparent to those of us who support him is, he’s the person who will stand up and fight against injustice and inequality in our society.

When Cameron was supplying arms to South Africa Corbyn was demonstrating against apartheid. When Blair was all for war in Iraq, Corbyn was on the front line of the million-man march. Justice is a double-edged sword. He doesn’t support terrorism and he doesn’t support ISIS but he is willing to stand up and talk about the cause and effect.

As for his involvement in NI... What Corbyn supported was the end of British rule in Ulster but he did condemn both sides of the conflict and he did put particular pressure on the British government to face up to the Ulster Unionists. It was Brooke, a Tory Minister who started the peace talks in Northern Ireland. Further to that, John Hume, an Irish Social Democrat and Gerry Adams, under a huge amount of scrutiny, sat down and started talking about a ceasefire. In 97 when Blair was elected, Mo Mowlam was asked by the Labour government to go to Northern Ireland and have further talks with Gerry Adams. Mo Mowlam asked Corbyn to accompany her as go between, which is what he did on many occasions. Regardless of what anyone says, Jeremy Corbyn played a key role in bringing about the Good Friday agreement. That had always been Corbyns intension.

Good Friday was, without a doubt, a historic achievement but it would never of come about if people like Corbyn and Mowlam hadn’t been able to sympathize with the Republicans. That though, doesn’t, as the right so jubilantly like to point out, mean that he sympathized with terrorism. He has always stated categorically that he didn’t.

Lets get this straight - Corbyn was an out and out IRA sympathiser who spoke at IRA rallies in the 70's, cheering on their bombing campaign and attending the funerals of IRA terrorists. That is well known here in N. Ireland. I know people who knew him well. He was a ****ty wet little nobody who liked playing and associating with the big boys in their 'struggle', which really means 'murderous campaign'. He was a rebel alright - one whose sympathies lay with those who murdered innocent woman and children in cold blood.

It's a shame you can't get N.Ireland local TV which has talked with politicians from all N.I parties at one time or another this past year about the UK elections and Corbyn and none of them, when the topic comes up - not a single one - have cited Corbyn as being in any way involved, never mind influential in the peace process and the Good Friday agreement. Many of them laugh.
In fact, their perception and knowledge of him is very much the same as the countless articles telling of his rewriting of history and how he was very much an IRA supporter, hanging around them and Gerry Adams like a pathetic fanboy, bigging himself up as having importance.

Even members of Sinn Fein scoff and Nationalist Duputy Minister Seamus Mallon, who at the time stepped into John Humes shoes when he became ill, repeatedly says Corbyn had nothing whatsoever to do with the peace process. The consensus is that Corbyn inserted himself into a complex conflict as nothing more than a irrelevant serial glory seeker, and on one side only - the Republican side.

I admit I laughed out loud when I read that you said he was a 'key figure' in it all. But you have obviously ignored the myriad of articles and essays to the contrary and found a few somewhere that insist he was a key figure, like that fake letter on DS a while back, so that is that.
Perhaps you should post those links that give historic accounts of his great contribution to the Good Friday Agreement - if he was a key figure, as you insist, there must be plenty of them about - I have failed to find any, but surely you just don't take his word for it? There are official accounts listing all the key figures, but the Great Jeremy is nowhere to be found.

The actual people and politicians of N.Ireland who know a hellava lot more about the Troubles and what went on than you possibly can are all wrong and you are right. And for the record, as for your 'history lesson' above on my own small country, you've got some of that wrong and left out some very important people who were involved in the process.