fair enough with your reservations about my sources, i am sure if corbyn is elected leader these stories will be pursued, it will be interesting to see if he stands by his principles once he has a whiff of genuine power, as for your stand on dialogue, i support it fully, my point about corbyn, which i seem to be fruyitlessly hammering away at , is that corbyn has never indulged in 'dialogue' he's never had the power or a mandate to do this, all he has ever done is offer unconditional support to the IRA , whilst they were fully operational and engaged in a war against the british state, dont forget there were more squaddies killed in NI than both iraq and afghanistan ( though i certainly wouldnt put it on a par with the experiences of soldiers in afghanistan) , THAT, is my problem with corbyn, and anyone who chooses to overlook that, or maybe not overlook it in some cases.
I find it hard to disagree with what you've written. I'd like to see some interview where he explains this tacit support for the IRA - that would be interesting. But too many in the right wing press have traditionally slaughtered left wing people as treacherous when in fact they had been "guilty" of little more than wanting to open a dialogue, hence my deep suspicion.