By David Paxton (@canyouflybobby)
Diplomacy (noun): the work of maintaining good relations between the governments of different countries
Diplomat (noun): a person who represents his or her country’s government in a foreign country : someone whose work is diplomacy
A week ago Labour leadership hopeful Jeremy Corbyn gave a long interview to Channel 4’s Krishnan Guru-Murthy. This section, on his calling Hamas ‘friends’, immediately started doing the rounds due to Corbyn’s apparent loss of temper.
By just using that single word ‘friends’ against him Guru-Murthy left available to Corbyn the defence he decided to make. He said:
I spoke at a meeting about the Middle East crises, in Parliament, and there were people there from Hezbollah and I said “I welcomed our friends from Hezbollah” to have a discussion and a debate.
Later he said:
I’m saying people I talk to, I use it in a collective way saying ‘our…
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