Grumpy David wrote:He's been shown evidence that we've not seen. He wasn't originally shown this but saw it over the weekend. The proof exists, you and I just haven't been shown it but we can figure out means, motive and opportunity and reach the conclusion that Russia is almost certainly responsible. You have to be a conspiracy theorist to think otherwise.
He was on Andrew Marr Show this morning and refused to blame Russia for it.
This is the same evidence that was shown to dozens of countries who decided to kick out Russian diplomats. Corbyn is a man who got 2 E's in O Levels. He isn't an intellectual heavyweight. Every country that's been shown it has reached the same conclusion. Russia did it.
There isn't any proof, there is evidence that Russia had the means and the motive, but nothing that says they definitely did it.
I saw the Andrew Marr interview, and he said that it looks Russia was behind this but you need to be able to produce proof to back it up.
We all 'know' they did it, but we just need to be able to say "this person put it on the door", or "this is how it got into the country". All we have at the moment is that Russia could have done it and would have benefitted from doing it, but that leaves open the possibility of someone else making it look like Russia did it.
Edit: And I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I believe Russia did this too. Just I don't think it's a weakness for the opposition leader to want proof, especially when the government has lied in the past.