QUOTE (newres @ Apr 4 2018, 09:16 PM)
True, but it doesn’t mean that the government sanctioned the attack. And let’s be honest it was clearly botched. The point is that the government portrayed to us that the Russians were behind it when they had nothing but circumstantial evidence. We’ve now got the Foreign Office deleting tweets. JC was correct in his response. Again.
I am not sure it was clearly botched.
Our government from the outset used language that stopped short of saying it definitely was. I know BoJo sad what he said, but whose to say he is lying; the PB bloke might have said as much at the time, or BoJo may have misunderstood; that is feasible. The deleting of tweets is tantamount to the same thing.
I think Corbyn was right to urge caution; however, I think Russia has done enough already to earn the sanctions they have now; perhaps had the West been more robust with its response to the Litvinenko murder, things may have been different now. Mind you, the Litvinenko evidence was circumstantial too.
I think it is too early to say that Corbyn has been proved right and to coin a phrase “nothing has changed”.