Diane Abbott: My views on IRA, like my hair, have changed

BBC ^ | 5/28/17

[Impala64ssa]

Diane Abbott says she has changed her mind on the IRA since the 1980s - and likened it to changing her hairstyle. The shadow home secretary was asked by Andrew Marr if she still thought "a defeat for the British state would be a great liberation". "I had a rather splendid afro at the time. I don't have the same hairstyle, I don't have the same views," she said. Home Secretary Amber Rudd later said she had changed her own hair many times, but not her views on terrorism. The pair vying to be the next home secretary were interviewed separately on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show about security and terror issues. Ms Abbott had backed an Early Day Motion in 1989 calling for the abolition of MI5, saying it was "in need of reform", but she said she would not do so today because of changes since then. The Labour front bencher said she had voted against one motion proscribing al-Qaeda because it would have also affected dissident groups. And she defended voting against certain counter-terror legislation, saying some of it was "counter-productive" and "nobody votes without a lot of thought". Speaking about the IRA comments, Ms Abbott said they were made 34 years ago she said: "The hairstyle is gone, the views are gone."

[Impala64ssa]

Video at link. Hey, we got our share of loonies, Mad Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee, Fauxchahantas Warren, why shouldn't our friends across the pond suffer these kind of fools also? I actually would have just a little more respect for her if she gave an honest response, even if she still supports the terrorism the IRA wreaked, instead of that meaningless, disingenuous cop-out "I have moved on".

[stylin19a]

I thought the IRA has come a long way since the 80’s. Now hardly any bombings and they are being more political than evee.

oh..wait ...nevermind

[Tea Party Terrorist]

Dumb as a bag of hammers. She stands to bei n charge of immigration into the Uk, although I don’t see how much worse it could get than now.

[Gay State Conservative]

Strange....I'm 100% Irish going back hundreds of generations.I'm also Catholic going back hundreds of generations.And yet I've always seen the IRA as filthy,medieval psychopaths.

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