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No doubt you will use that with Boris, but how about Blair, or Gerry?
Blair was/still is an immensely capable politician who genuinely had the best interests of this country - and further afield - at heart. He did well, over more than 2 terms, but he misjudged the situation with Iraq, pressurised (by himself) to support Bush, whilst hoping until the last second that the UN would come on board too. They didn't. That is all his distractors (like you) now latch on to - for their own reasons - whilst blindly ignoring his achievements.
Adams was a terrorist organiser but smarter than the average but with his cold-blooded steely eye always on the ultimate prize - legitimate political acceptance and power. Almost certainly the British military would have won the fight as they'd deeply infiltrated the IRA and other organisations, but winning by military means is rarely - if ever - successful long term (The Better Angels of our Nature, Steven Pinker), so he made that GFA gamble at the best opportunity, but in full awareness of the associated personal risk to himself from hard-liners.
Boris is a copper-bottomed hypocrite. A contemptible slimeball.