Jeremy Corbyn Hosts Gerry Adams During Controversial Visit to London (1983)
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- On 27 July 1983, Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn hosted Gerry Adams, Provisional Sinn Féin MP for West Belfast and alleged senior commander of the Provisional IRA, when the latter made a trip to London at the invitation of Ken Livingstone, then the leader of the Greater London Council. The visit by Adams, who would become Sinn Féin leader just months later in November 1983, was seen as a deliberate attempt to upstage the visit of Irish foreign minister, Peter Barry, who was visiting London in a bid to improve Anglo-Irish relations.
On 28 March 2023, the Labour Party's governing body will vote on a proposal to officially ban Jeremy Corbyn from standing as a Labour candidate at the next general election. After serving as Labour leader, Mr Corbyn was suspended from the Labour Party by his successor, Sir Keir Starmer, following a row over antisemitism. The MP for Islington North now sits as an independent.
Next month will mark 25 years since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement on 10 April 1998. Also known as the Belfast Agreement, the signing of the agreement put an end to most of the violence of the Troubles, the conflict in Northern Ireland that had been ongoing since the end of the 1960s. The reaching of the agreement, to which Adams was a signatory as Sinn Féin's president, represented landmark progress in the Northern Ireland peace process of the 1990s.
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Corbyn & Livingstone led the way in talking to Sinn Fein when others refused to speak to them they should be celebrated for this fact. The only way the conflict was going to end was through dialogue, Incidentally, nice timing ITN Archive I'm sure it's a pure coincidence that the video appeared on the eve of Starmer banning Corbyn from standing as a Labour MP (!)
So Corbyn did what the Labour government ended up doing fifteen years later : talk to Adams. He should be commended for his foresight.
The Labour Govt sat down *with both sides*. Corbyn didn't.
@@davewalkden7248 the unionists didn't want to talk. The eventual labour government essentially forced them. Corbyn couldn't.
The Conservatives had been talking to the PIRA since 1972 if through back channels. Blair came in 1997 after years of talk. 😂
@@user-br3bw7wr2l the real breakthrough is when you negotiate publicly and openly, not behind the Unionists' back.
The Ira had not decommissioned or even declared a ceasefire at this point.
Jeremy and Ken are friends of Ireland I have great admiration from them.
You can always count on the The West Brits in Fine Gael like Peter Barry to toe the British party line in condemning Sinn Fein/Gerry Adams and not coming up with any positive solutions. If his party was in Government in the 90s the IRA ceasefire would not have happened,in fact it broke down while Bruton was in power early1996
Corbyn: right on apartheid South Africa; right on Ireland; and he'll be right on Palestine, too, no doubt.
Why did the c!owns not dub his voice like they did later on?
I can never understand why we, as the British, wanted to retain a country that brought nothing but death and destruction, going back to Cromwell and beyond. As far as a financial contribution to Britain that was nominal over the centuries. The Romans were smart, they wouldn't touch it with a barge pole. It had no strategic or financial benefit, apart from a beautiful landscape.
Do you think the British Government wants to be there ? It’s inherited NI and has a population that want to remain British and have a history of being British. Men of the Ulster Division fought at the Somme in 1916, reportedly shouting, “No Surrender” as they left the trenches. Try telling a Loyalist who’s grandfather died for his country that he should give up his heritage because the British Government don’t want to be in NI.
@@user-br3bw7wr2lIreland was partitioned after WW1 against the wishes of the Irish people. They reneged on a promise to introduce Home Rule and as for these so called "Loyalists" _ they were happy to smuggle into Ireland German made guns for the UVF to fight Home Rule during WW1
Ireland for the Irish & I mean the Northern part as well !
Blimey!