I needed police escorts on a couple of occasions when I was doing home visits when I was a nursery teacher in Woolwich. Nothing to do with Muslims though.

Jeremy Corbyn was arrested in 1986 for protesting the trial of a group of IRA members, including the Brighton Bomber Patrick Magee. Magee was convicted of murdering five people and the group were convicted of planning a "massive bombing campaign in London and seaside resorts." After refusing police requests to move from outside the court, Corbyn and the other protesters were arrested for obstruction and held for five hours before being released on bail, but were not charged. In the early 1990s, MI5 opened a file on Corbyn over fears his IRA links meant he could have been a threat to national security.The Metropolitan Police's Special Branch was also monitoring Corbyn at the time. According to Andrew Gilligan in The Sunday Times, following research in Irish and Republican archives, Corbyn was involved in over 72 events connected with Sinn Fein, or other pro-republican groups, during the period of the IRA's paramilitary campaign.
Corbyn supported the campaign to overturn the convictions of Jawad Botmeh and Samar Alami for the 1994 bombing of the Israeli Embassy in London; Botmeh and Alami had admitted possessing explosives and guns but denied they were for use in Britain. The convictions were upheld by the High Court of Justice in 2001 and by the European Court of Human Rights in 2007.

Why let facts or expert opinion cloud our judgement? Down with facts and down with experts I say. Bloody know-it-alls.

Agreed. I mean the man has met very unpleasant individuals here and abroad in his time and not once has he sold them arms.

No way should he be in office.

Yet the IFS has said the tax hikes won't raise nearly enough to cover the manifesto.

'Lets rip the Tories on their increased debt, whilst we are willing to increase the debt and deficit ourselves'

Edited by Hansy (06 Jun 2017 9.33am)

Exactly. What's more obnoxious? Being arrested at a protest 30 years ago outside the Old Bailey for supporting an independent Ireland and 'Troops Out' or our government selling billions of pound worth of arms last year to an overseas regime that actively finances a religious movement that propagates the terrorism that occurs here and seeks the downfall of the British state?

Vote Tory and you are 100% enabling them to sell arms to them again and for Saudi to set up more Wahhabist inspired mosques here. Vote Tory and help extreme Islam at the same time. That's the nub of it. They will never ever do anything to offend Saudi Arabia. They will put them ahead of their own citizens.

Edited by Kermit8 (06 Jun 2017 9.58am)

And he wouldn't want to sell arms to his friends in Hamas and Hezbollah? I agree that we shouldn't be selling arms there, but to say this is a Tory problem, when Labour did the exact same is silly.

Edited by Hansy (06 Jun 2017 10.52am)

Exactly. What's more obnoxious? Being arrested at a protest 30 years ago outside the Old Bailey for supporting an independent Ireland and 'Troops Out' or our government selling billions of pound worth of arms last year to an overseas regime that actively finances a religious movement that propagates the terrorism that occurs here and seeks the downfall of the British state?

Vote Tory and you are 100% enabling them to sell arms to them again and for Saudi to set up more Wahhabist inspired mosques here. Vote Tory and help extreme Islam at the same time. That's the nub of it. They will never ever do anything to offend Saudi Arabia. They will put them ahead of their own citizens.

Edited by Kermit8 (06 Jun 2017 9.58am)

But they still believe in the destruction of Jews and/or Israel.

So what you're saying is our arms that we sell to Saudi Arabia are then shifted to ISIS? I probably need to understand the link between the two more, but it is because SA and ISIS have the same religion? Or because SA called a Religious Jihad against the Russians in Afghanistan that started it all? - Any links to description regarding the link will be helpful.