Double Standards?

[maggiebee]

They're currently talking on BBC News about how brave and progressive the Queen was when she shook hands and spoke to Martin McGuinness. I'm old enough to remember Jeremy Corbyn being labelled a terrorist sympathiser for doing the exact sane thing.

[barry1010]

Corbyn had a choice; the Queen did not

[naomi24]

Hardly, maggiebee.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/jun/27/queen-martin-mcguinness-shake-hands

[aelmpvw]

must have been easier for corbyn, the ira hadn't murdered a member of his family . . .

[barry1010]

No comparison between the Queen and Corbyn re McGuinness
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4334446/Corbyn-pays-warm-tribute-IRA-killer-Martin-McGuinness.html

[Paigntonian]

Corbyn did it because he sympathised with the IRA. The Queen did it to further the cause of peace.

[douglas9401]

You're going to hurt yourselves, contorting like that while bending over backwards.

[ToraToraTora]

Stop it maggie, the Queen was doing her duty for the nation at a time of reconciliation, it must have stuck in her craw but she did it. How many terrorist funerals did she attend? Jezza was inherently the terrorist friend. How anyone can draw a comparison is beyond me. I wondered when the Scot nats would start this BS. Probably annoyed that so many Scots supported her majesty and it may help the anti "independence" vote.

[douglas9401]

"I wondered when the Scot nats would start this BS"

No you didn't, you were just given an 'in' for one of your interminable rants and took it.

[youngmafbog]

TTT hasnt ranted though. Its all straight truth.

How can anyone in their right mind think COB meeting terrorists is the same as the Queen meeting the murdering scum of her family?

[maggiebee]

TTT - in your own parlance PMSL. What in the name of the wee man has this anything to do with the Scot Nats? BBC comment! Of course the Scots supported the Queen, she is (was) our Queen too and spent a lot of time in Scotland. Are you just p'd off that the Scots got to mourn first?

[Peter Pedant]

must have been easier for corbyn, the ira hadn't murdered a member of his family . . .

yeah I agree... and wanted to murder her as well....

[Peter Pedant]

Of course the Scots supported the Queen,

erm I dont think anyone in London has queued for 24 hrs carrying a placard " I dont think she should be dead anymore"

did anyone do R4 Thought of the day this am
very revd someone getting their knickers knotted over funerary masses and prayers for the dead.

First reformed prayer book (proddo) the priest was not allowed to even attend an interment...and then they were
Sort of early start for the Anglican Church. (flipping)

[FatticusInch]

But ToraToraTora has many Scottish friends……he just wants to keep them as tortured pets.

[fiveleaves]

Some of Jeremy Corbyn's constituents would have had their sons serving in Northern Ireland at the time he was their MP. So when he was all matey with Adams and McGuiness he was in fact tacitly supporting attempts to murder his constituents. Makes you think.

[douglas9401]

It's a long established fact that the better dressed and posh of the parish are allowed to meet with terrorists while plebs will get pelters for doing the same.

End of.

[Atheist]

Anybody who says "Makes you think" makes me think that they don't think at all, they just trot out a trite cliche which suggests that there's something behind it all, which I won't go into in any detail, but it makes you think, doesn't it."

[Untitled]

Corbyn was also meeting with them to encourage peace wasn't he? Thatcher did it too