Henry Jackson turns its neoconservative British foreign policy on Ireland.

The Henry Jackson Society (HJS) is a neoconservative British foreign policy think tank. It has been described as right-wing, but positions itself as cross-partisan, with support from some left-leaning politicians.^[5][6][7] The former think tank Centre for Social Cohesion has been a part of HJS since 2011. It is named after the American politician Henry M. Jackson, the late Democratic Senator, civil rights advocate, and anticommunist liberal hawk.

Statement of principles[edit]

Statement of its principles, according to the Henry Jackson Society itself:^[16]

1. Believes that modern liberal democracies set an example to which the rest of the world should aspire.
2. Supports a 'forward strategy' – involving diplomatic, economic, cultural, and/or political means – to assist those countries that are not yet liberal and democratic to become so.
3. Supports the maintenance of a strong military, by the United States, the countries of the European Union and other democratic powers, armed with expeditionary capabilities with a global reach, that can protect our homelands from strategic threats, forestall terrorist attacks, and prevent genocide or massive ethnic cleansing.
4. Supports the necessary furtherance of European military modernisation and integration under British leadership, preferably within NATO.
5. Stresses the importance of unity between the world’s great democracies, represented by institutions such as NATO, the European Union and the OECD, amongst many others.
6. Believes that only modern liberal democratic states are truly legitimate, and that the political or human rights pronouncements of any international or regional organisation which admits undemocratic states lack the legitimacy to which they would be entitled if all their members were democracies.
7. Gives two cheers for capitalism. There are limits to the market, which needs to serve the Democratic Community and should be reconciled to the environment.
8. Accepts that we have to set priorities and that sometimes we have to compromise, but insists that we should never lose sight of our fundamental values. This means that alliances with repressive regimes can only be temporary. It also means a strong commitment to individual and civil liberties in democratic states, even and especially when we are under attack.

The society's statement of principles have been changed from those first signed by supporters in Cambridge on 11 March 2005, to de-emphasise military methods and to more recognise the legitimacy of international organisations. The original versions were:^[17]

2. Supports a 'forward strategy' to assist those countries that are not yet liberal and democratic to become so. This would involve the full spectrum of 'carrot' capacities, be they diplomatic, 
3. Supports the maintenance of a strong military, by the United States, the countries of the European Union and other democratic powers, armed with expeditionary capabilities with a global reach.
6. Believes that only modern liberal democratic states are truly legitimate, and that any international organisation which admits undemocratic states on an equal basis is fundamentally flawed.

It now seems that the Republic of Ireland is to some in the Soceity  a nation  that need s  'forward strategy' to assist a not yet  liberal and democratic to become so. Tthatwould involve the full spectrum of 'carrot' capacities, be they diplomatic, economic, cultural or political, but also, when necessary, those 'sticks'  if not of the military domain then other means.

Appearing on the BBC’s daily Politics Live show Alan Mendoza, the Executive Director of the neoconservative Henry Jackson Society and a newspaper columnist with the City A.M. in London, offered this piece of advice to the United Kingdom’s government on its stalled efforts to move the country beyond the Brexit impasse created through its confused and inept negotiations with the European Union – including Ireland – since 2016.

“One of the best things that I’ve seen recently is the idea that you don’t go to Brussels. Instead, you go to Dublin and you literally do a deal with the Irish.Whether you bribe them or threaten them, one way or the other, to get them into position where they’re the ones who drop the opposition to the backstop and that enables the Europeans to do so.I think the amazing thing about this is, three years in, we are still no closer to actually understanding the final possibilities than we were three years ago.”

It is appalling that this right-wing organisation threatens a European Democracy in this way.

Some "Welsh " Labour MPs including Nia Grifiths (Llanelli) and Chris Bryant (Rhondda)  have assosiated with the Henry Jackson Society in the past .

Surely any real Democrat wherever   on the political spectrum , they lie should not be associated with this society.