[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by jet

That is just utter nonsense and not what Livia is saying at all. She’s saying that I have more knowledge and experience of the troubles because I lived in the midst of them for 30 years, therefore I will know more than someone who hasn’t so my words shouldn’t just be summarily dismissed as you and Kizzy have dismissed them. That is just common sense.
You choose to cast aside anything I say as emotive and not based on fact - well, you are wrong. Emotion and facts are not exclusive of one another.

Whereas this quote from Kizzie about Corbyn:


Is based on nothing at all but an opinion with no personal knowledge or experience or any facts to support it. Surely you see the difference and yet you say nothing as to this. Why not?

But really, I don’t need or want your support. In fact I’d be in shock if you ever agreed with me on anything, or had a kind word to say to me.


Those I respect and admire on here give my posts consideration and thought and that is more than enough for me.
A big thank you to them all.

I haven't dismissed them, all I have suggested is that yours is an emotive response due to your life. Your perspective will be more one sided due to the impact on your community.

There will be though another man sat a few miles away who has had similar experiences to you aside from the fact he is catholic and all the trauma he has suffered at the hands of unionists?.... He may know victims young and old of the troubles, we shouldn't just whitewash those away because you don't feel that the groups who created tragedy in his life weren't as bad.

I appreciate too that you feel betrayed that a British MP shared a platform with the IRA, yet reading of plans for the repartition of Northern Ireland I wonder if this wasn't to highlight the urgency needed to stave of what would effectively be a full blown civil war?

Had the IRA not been willing to commit to peace wouldn't they have just killed Corbyn as a representative of the unionist establishment?