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It was rather good that Smith put his foot in his mouth again by saying he'd like to see negotiations with isis. No doubt thinking 'ah yes this is what Corbyn's people will like to hear, negotiation, they love that instead of bombing people.' But Corbyn gave a resolute NO. It made me laugh. Then the man had to backtrack wildly 'oh yes but I meant only when they renounce violence and everything'. Hmm that shows a good grasp of the situation. They'll be doing that when hell freezes over, it's the violence that's their raison detre. It's not like they're using it to make some other point, surely, so they'll stop when they get what they want. What they want is never going to happen.
Anyway it did make me laugh at the radio.

Was it the Corbynist vote taht he was going after with that comment. I'm assuming there was some intention in saying it initially anyway.
he wasn't going after the disenfranchised muslim youth vote like he seemed to be going after floating UKIPers with comments about patriotism/sense of belonging to place that he was going on about on Newsnight and elsewhere a few weeks back.

But the mass walk over to the Corbyn side was quite refreshing anyway even if it might have been a little false.

Stevo