17: Gerry Adams: The Troubles, Margaret Thatcher, and the IRA
The Rest Is Politics: Leading
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🗓️ 8 May 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of the Restless Policies Leading with me, Anastacamble. |
| 0:10.0 | And with me, Rory Stewart. And me, Gerry Adams. |
| 0:12.0 | Well, thank you for introducing yourself. |
| 0:14.0 | And let me say, Gerry Adams, let's describe Gerry Adams. |
| 0:17.0 | I think Gerry Adams, to some, a heroic freedom fighter leading his country to unity and peace and prosperity, |
| 0:25.0 | others a figure of hate, and seen as a man of terror and violence. |
| 0:30.0 | To me, the guy that I saw very, very, very often in close proximity, particularly with Tony Blair and Bertie Henry, |
| 0:39.0 | who we've just bumped into, and an integral part of what became the peace process and the Israeli agreement. |
| 0:47.0 | So something of anigma. |
| 0:49.0 | It was only because we persuaded you and your government to embrace peace. |
| 0:54.0 | And when Mr. Blair changed British government policy to actually talking to Shinfian Imagine, |
| 1:02.0 | I just imagine that the British government wouldn't talk to a person who adamanted as an MP leading a political party, |
| 1:12.0 | which had a declared publicized peace object. |
| 1:17.0 | But you moved before that, in a sense. |
| 1:20.0 | Of course, we did. But you can only move so far, and then furnace to you, and Jonathan, and relatively to Tony. |
| 1:27.0 | It was only when you commenced that big majority, and the new government, and new kids in the block, |
| 1:33.0 | that you turned things the way they were turned. |
| 1:36.0 | So you talked to my predecessor, a member of Parliament, Penrod and Board of Willy White Law, |
| 1:41.0 | I guess, back in the 70s. |
| 1:43.0 | That's a long time ago. |
| 1:46.0 | Do you remember him? |
| 1:47.0 | I do remember him. |
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