He's probably right about Syria, admittedly for the wrong reasons. Bombing IS in Syria is a waste of money, it'll have no real benefit, it won't make us safer or less of a target, and it certainly won't result in any military success.

Even Cameron doesn't really have any real justification for the cost of attacking IS in Syria other than it'll make people feel better, and it looks like doing something.

It might very well actually work out in the best interests of the PM, Arms Companies and Procurement and IS (who may very well relish attacks on them, that inevitably will kill a lot of civilians in the area - resulting in increased support from equally desperate people who want to do something, even if its ineffective, to stike back).

That's the problem, we kill theirs, they kill ours, and somewhere in that equation everyone gets stronger. The blitz killed 80,000 Londoners, and all it achieved was an increased resolution to fight and to sign up.

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Indeed, and just bombing places in Syria won't achieve that. The IS caliphate may very well benefit from it. Realistically, it needs a ground campaign backed by air support, that can consolidate the captured territory and establish it as a functional secure state territory, without alienating the people who live there, even if they have been living there under IS.

Curiously, we've been 'relentless' in our pursuit of IS targets and infrastructure, and yet their income from oil smuggling, which is their primary revenue, is still raking in huge amounts of revenue.

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Anyone else watching Corbyn on Andrew Marr?

I have realised throughout this interview, that Corbyn is a typical politico. He uses words and phrases like 'inclusion', 'political process' and 'consensus' without describing how he would bring about such things.

He answers questions with questions or goes off on a tangent and doesn't answer directly.

Anyone thinking he is the new messiah is wrong. He is just another power driven, feckless Westminister hack.

"That was fun and to round off the day, I am off to steal a charity collection box and then desecrate a place of worship.” - Smokey, The Selhurst Arms, 26/02/02

He knows his wisdom will not work in real life. I don't think it's much more than that.

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I have no idea if this is genuinely Jeremy Corbyn but if it is he really needs to sort himself out.

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Ken has gotta be attempting to out-do Jez with the Iraq war comments. Particularly daft considering the fact that the perpetrators of 7/7 had been to training camps in 2001.

There's no spin here, these vile people are actually justifying terrorism.

Hard to get through that article - first few paragraphs are just spouting the usual sh1te that she's only unpopular because she's black and/or a woman! I can't stand her, but it's not because she's black, and it's not because she's a woman, it's because she's a c**t!

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Politicians can rarely handle the fact they are not actually liked. Its an ego driven business, and many if not most, are egocentric almost to the point of being delusional.

There are good people among them, but generally those who push their way to the front are of a mentality of self importance and entitlement.

I remember when working on a DTI project, Mandleson returned from a meeting with the French, livid that the French delegates had more recent Blackberry's than he did, and consequently initiated a project spend to replace DTI blackberries (even though they'd only been rolled out the year before hand, and he'd approved the handset we deployed).

That for me sums up cabinet and high profile MPs to me, careerist, entitled deluded pricks.

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The comments are great though.

As for the writer: Maya Goodfellow is a journalist. She is a columnist for Media Diversified and is a staff writer at LabourList.

Optimistic as ever

..she is too calculating in her speech, I want to shake her and wake her up from her self righteous demeanour, bet at home she talks different.

.......has our coach driver done a Poo'yet, without thinking about Gus!