McDonnell has even praised murder in the pursuit of a political cause he supports: the absorption of Northern Ireland into the Republic of Ireland.
In 2003 he told a meeting of Irish Republicans that IRA terrorists should be ‘honoured’ as ‘it was the bombs and bullets . . . that brought Britain to the negotiating table’.
Those of us who have been around for a while, know McDonnell for the vile creature that he is – a worse potential Labour leader than the nasty Corbyn. These men are, indeed, extremists. After all, reasonable, rational, moderate men would not be sucking up to terrorists. Sure, the British government did negotiate with the IRA – as Lawson points out – after they had infiltrated the organisation and weakened it such that it was unable to be an effective force any more. It is one thing to negotiate with an enemy, it is entirely another to honour the kind of people who murder innocent people. The IRA were child killers and all decent people will find them and their tactics deeply repugnant. So, yes, it irks that the likes of McGuinness and Adams were brought in from the cold, but, by God, I would never honour them.
As I mentioned the other day, McDonnell is the enemy of enterprise, despite his attempts to paint himself as business friendly. He would drag us back to the worst of the nineteen seventies with the unions wielding the same kind of power they did then. At the time, I didn’t much like Margaret Thatcher, but I knew – even then – that when it came to curbing union power, she was right. She is still right and McDonnell is wrong.
Then, of course, there is his antisemitism.
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell faced claims he was as ‘hard core’ as Jeremy Corbyn over anti-Semitism last night after it emerged he took part in a boycott of Israeli goods.
This behaviour is entirely within expected parameters of this evil man. And as Lawson remarks, should Corbyn fall, he is there, ready and waiting, to take up the reins. Having, of course, rid the party of moderate MPs.
To continue Umunna’s canine metaphor, I’d like to say that McDonnell’s bark is worse than his bite.
But it is quite the other way around. He is genuinely dangerous.
Quite so. And reasonable people should be very, very afraid should this man get his hands on the levers of power.
Unfortunately there are those who would vote for Pol Pot if he wore a red rosette.
Indeed. Tribal voting has worked so well up until now, hasn’t it?
When McDonnell has been on BBC QT the sheer evil and anger in his eyes and face is obvious.
Corbyn has the same evil exuding eyes, clearly seen on a QT Leader debate.
They’re dangerous anti-UK marxist terrorists.
Not so much “should Corbyn fall” – Corbyn will undoubtedly fall if labour are elected and McDonnell will be PM you can bet on it.
Compared to Mcdonnell Corbyn is a teddy bear and it is deliberate so as not to frighten the horses.
If Corbyn wins the next election he will quickly be forced to stand aside for “health reasons”. This idiot will take over and Corbyn will be given a Lordship. They are all anti the House of Lords until it’s their turn.