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Old 17-08-2018, 08:45 AM
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Corbyn believes in two things, and he has repeatedly said this in the past as an MP and leader of the Labour Party.

1. He believes in dialogue, extreme dialogue first, until agreement is found, and condemns all violent methods to achieve the same outcome.

2. He believes the only way this can be done is to treat all sides of conflict wherever possible, equally, to enable and facilitate that dialogue, as it rarely happens any other way. This will mean meeting with adversaries from time to time and empathising with losses on both sides.

A further observation is that the people of this country will find it hard to accept the above, especially item 2. above, as it goes against the historical grain of the British psyche, despite it being a traditional Christian mantra in an alleged Christian country.

A second observation is that this makes any leader of any party more vulnerable to attack from a variety of sources, especially political opponents who can "weaponise" what is perceived as weakness or worse, "traitorous" behaviour.

In my opinion, and under these circumstances, Corbyn should not dodge and dive around these issues, but simply own up, as he has done so on many occasions in the past that this is his way of working and is not going to apologise for it, or lie to alleviate criticism. When is he going to do this?
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