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Originally Posted by jet

Thanks for replying - I'm an avid reader who likes the longer, well thought out post, and you make your personal position very clear. I always squirm when someone has taken the trouble to post a thoughtful and interesting response and all they get in return is a sarcastic one liner.
I take all your opinions on board as very valid for you, and I respect your ideals, but personally I don't agree with voting to get a party into power whose current leader's very dubious morals and association with terrorists cause me to feel sick to my stomach.
He is untested, too. He can't deliver all the promises he has made willy - nilly to all and sundry, and surely we are not that daft to think his policies are going to make a fantastic difference, that this time it's all going to be all right.
If he was a strong, moral figure, with no awful past history, whose own party members exuded sincere trust in, then I would feel hope, because it doesn't matter to me whether we have a gov. of Cons or Labour, I'm in the middle. But we've been down the road of disappointment too many times for me to think that THIS man in particular is going to deliver.
How could I when I personally loathe him and what he has stood for? Yes, apart from all the above, he is the man who supported the IRA terrorists in my home N.Ireland who murdered and maimed my beloved friends, who sympathised with the terrorists who indiscriminately murdered innocent woman and children out shopping or attending a fun run event. He spoke at IRA rallies, he attended commemorations for their dead, he was an integral part of a terrorist publication which promoted violence. He was doing all this in the 70's (as well as later)before he even became an MP. We in N.Ireland know of him of old, probably when many of you were just kids or not even born.

He lies and tries to talk his way out of it by saying he was trying to promote peace, when he actually opposed the peace agreement and he NEVER, at any time, took part in anything to do with the Good Friday Agreement. He places McDonnell, another despicable IRA apologist at the same time, in a prominent position in Gov.
That is why May is not on my radar in the same way. But apart from my personal feelings, she is nowhere in Corbyns league when it comes to actively supporting and being an apologist for murderers.
HE supported those who destroyed the lives of so many families in my community.
I tried to think - maybe he's changed and regrets his past activities. He seems mellower. But even now he baulks at condemning the IRA outright and their reign of terror instead of them fighting their battle democratically. He has other dubious links too which cannot be just brushed under the carpet.
But I understand that you don't have those personal prejudices and experiences so therefore can't feel the same passions as I do.
But I could never, ever, consider such a man as the Prime Minister of my country, however attractive his policies and promises appear. I fear him. Not for his strength, but for his weakness and fascination for those that yield power through terror.

Well said Jet.
If all the above isn't enough to turn your stomache then nothing will.
Trying to overturn a democratic decision and organise a march to try and bring down the government is out of order as well.
Desperate to get in at any price.