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Originally Posted by Dezzy

If any of this is true then why hasn't he been forced to resign? People have been outcast from politics for less so, if he truly was a terrorist sympathiser, then how has he managed to stay in politics for so long? It doesn't make much sense if what you are saying is true.

Then again, your definition of 'terrorist sympathiser' has always been a bit wonky, just because he isn't bloodthirsty and values peace over war doesn't make him a terrorist sympathiser.

What you just said is really important in this discussion. There is a difference between a terrorist sympathiser and a person who has sympathy with a cause. The IRA has fought against British rule in Northern Ireland. Ironic as this may sound, when the British army drove into Northern Ireland, it did so to protect the Catholics. The IRA at that time had no popular support and were tiny in number but within a year of the British Army going in, the discontent against British rule had nationalism grow enormously.

The Nationalists/Republicans have always stood for an independent Ireland. The Loyalists/Unionists want to remain part of the UK. What Corbyn is sympathetic to, is an Irish right to unity, independence and freedom like they have in the rest of Ireland. None of us should be fooled into believing all of Northern Ireland want to live in a duplicated bureaucracy with political solutions effectively imposed upon them and the British state.

And you know what I find really alarming... Most of us Brits know little to nothing about Northern Ireland. It was hammered down our throats in school that the IRA were bad and the Unionists were good. Other than that we are told the words of Reginald Maudling when he flew back from a meeting with Unionist politicians and declared to us all what an awful place Northern Ireland is.