[bots]

He would be mad not surround himself with "people he could do business with" and in a shadow cabinet, lack of experience isn't really an issue, i just think that the cabinet that finally gets picked will provide so much fuel for the press that they are doomed from day 1

[Kizzy]

Only the Britain can do no wrong brigade would say that, and when it comes to Ireland we all know that's not true.

[joeysteele]

Well the IRA and the organisations connected to it had to be consulted to eventually gain any kind of peace in the end.

Because you talk to terrorists or dictators does not mean you necessarily like them.
We are at last now engaging with Iran again, staring to build new bridges there hopefully.

As Obama said, you don't make peace with your friends but with your enemies.

[Kizzy]

Totally agree, are bombs the answer to everything?....Better ask dave :/

[MTVN]

Nothing wrong with that in principle, thing is Corbyn is completely hypocritical about it as this article puts it well:

His justification for calling Hamas or the IRA his friends is that it’s only by talking that peace is achieved. This would be laudable were it not disingenuous. For much depends on what the “talking” comprises. Doubtless the British Government talked secretly to the IRA, but it wasn’t being chummy, or expressing sympathy with their aims, that brought them to the table. And if sweet-talking Hamas is to be forgiven for the results it might yield, then by the same logic Corbyn should be cosying up to Benjamin Netanyahu. In fact, the Stop the War Coalition, which Corbyn chairs, is pressing for Netanyahu to be arrested for war crimes when he visits Britain and, at the time of writing, Corbyn is listed to be among those demonstrating against the presence of the Israeli soccer team in Cardiff. To terrorists we speak, to footballers we don’t.

Abhorrence for a person’s views should not stop conversation, Corbyn insists, unless, it would appear, the person happens to be Israeli. If Corbynites see no moral or intellectual contradiction in that – insisting that Israel is uniquely wicked among nations – it isn’t only honesty they are lost to but reason itself. For a phobia is a species of madness.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/...-10487318.html