Jeremy Corbyn was an early supporter of gay rights. He voted against section 28, which banned local authorities from promoting homosexuality. Theresa May voted the opposite.
Margaret Thatcher and the Conservatives were in favour of apartheid in South Africa. One of Thatcher's cabinet members called Nelson Mandela a "terrorist". It is widely known that Corbyn was arrested in an anti-apartheid demonstration in 1984.
In 2003 Corbyn, unlike May and 412 other MPs, voted against the Iraq war. The Iraq war is now widely known to be a great mistake, as the Chilcot report emphatically confirms.
in 2011 Corbyn, unlike May and 557 MPs, voted against bombing Libya. Our military presence in Libya is now widely known to be a great mistake, as the Libya intervention report emphatically confirms. Do people not learn from previous errors?
As Home Secretary May allowed threatening "go home vans" to be driven around the country and she wanted to scrap our Human Rights Act. May supported such things to attain more governmental control over ordinary people and take significant freedoms away from them. Only today she has used the London terror attack to say that the internet must be more regulated, because, to iterate, she wants more government control in certain areas.
Admittedly people can change, but Corbyn's consistency, integrity and trustworthiness has been demonstrated throughout his career until the present. The same can't be said for May. One gets the impression with May that, intuitively or instinctively, she does not care about minority groups and their freedoms, but will change her views and principles depending on how popular they are at the time.
If you want a consistent, principled and trustworthy PM who has always cared about minority groups, regardless of whether caring about them was popular at the time, then vote Labour.
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