Weasel words on IRA which shame Labour

JEREMY Corbyn loves to portray himself as a man of principle and, above all, a man of peace. How strange then, that he finds it so impossible to condemn the IRA terrorists who waged a vile 30-year campaign of death and destruction against the British public.

Five times yesterday he was invited to denounce these ruthless killers. Five times he refused, offering nothing but weasel words about being opposed to ‘all bombings’. Indeed, he even had the audacity to suggest the British government was to blame for the Troubles by ‘seeking a military solution’ in Ulster.

In the twisted Corbyn narrative – peddled by Marxists for years – the terrorists were heroic freedom fighters, who had no choice but to take up arms against an oppressive state. Perhaps he should try telling that to the families of those killed at Enniskillen, Hyde Park, or Omagh.

We also learned that Mr Corbyn lobbied on behalf of the deadly Balcombe Street gang after their imprisonment and was arrested in 1986 during a demonstration at the Old Bailey against the ‘show trial’ of Brighton bomber Patrick Magee. So close did he become to the men of violence that he was investigated by MI5 as a possible collaborator.

In addition, it was revealed that Mr Corbyn’s ex-girlfriend Diane Abbott spoke in the 1980s about her fervent hopes for an IRA victory, saying ‘every defeat of the British state is a victory for all of us’. In a Corbyn government, this woman would become Home Secretary. It beggars belief.

The truth is that while Mr Corbyn says he’s a man of peace, he actively condones violence when it’s directed against his own country. That certainly makes him a hypocrite – some would say a traitor.

It’s bad enough that he has risen to be leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition. The thought of this IRA cheerleader becoming Prime Minister is simply grotesque.