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Edited Dec 01, 2015, 13:34
Re: policy on Syria from the Labour conference
Dec 01, 2015, 13:30
thesweetcheat wrote:

It's pretty sad that some Labour MPs are trying to use this to manufacture a "leadership crisis".

The media needless to say will go for Corbyn no matter what - "dictator" if he forces them to support his stance, "weak/U Turn" etc if he allows a free vote.

To think that something that could cost thousands of lives should be such a political football tells you much about what's wrong with many of our politicians.


Just heard Corbyn on Vine, and FWIW must have got mainly positive response from listeners going by e mails.

Speaks too much about uncomfortable truths, like how the mess that is Libya might have paved was for what happened in Tunisia.
All that stuff.

Hilary Benn is really getting on my tits more than anyone, got nothing at all to say other than how dreadful Isis are, as if we do not know.
Offers nothing in terms of what to do about it then.

David Davis is another revelation, a tory who remember supports the death penalty so hardly a peacenik, but in this instance (and as ex Army) recognises what a deeper mess we'd be causing.

Also tells us in Iraq there are about a million police/ security forces to help on the ground, in Syria there are over 100 different factions Dave so cosily calls 'the Free Syrian Army'.
Then there was the ex Nato chief, saying the same as Davis.

Who does Cameron ask?
Grant Schapps?
Samantha?
Gideon?
I think no one.

Interesting Tom Watson has *now* asked Dave for more time.
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