People are rounding on Jez’s comments on Osama (Picture: Getty)

The Corbyn haters are out in force again.

They’ve got literally no chill, they won’t even let JC live it up at Notting Hill Carnival in peace.

Now he’s being criticised for describing the death of notorious terrorist Osama bin Laden as a ‘tragedy’.

Footage has emerged of the silver-haired socialist giving an interview following the death of the al-Qaeda leader in 2011.


Right-wingers and Corbyn cynics have labelled his comments alarming, but has what he said been taken out of context?

Hmmm, let’s take a look.

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Corbyn thinks bin Laden should have been given a trial (Picture: AP/File)

The Labour leadership frontrunner can be heard saying the solution should ‘be law, not war’. And it’s that which he consider tragic, because he’s against the death penalty.

And for clarity, I’mma let Jez finish.

‘There was no attempt whatsoever that I can see to arrest him, to put him on trial, to go through that process.

‘This was an assassination attempt, and is yet another tragedy, upon a tragedy, upon a tragedy.’

Corbyn goes on: ‘The World Trade Centre was a tradegy, the attack on Afghanistan was a tragedy, the war in Iraq was a tragedy. Tens of thousands of people have died. Torture has come back on to the world stage, been canonised virtually into law by Guantanamo and Bagram.

‘Can’t we learn some lessons over this?’

Oh and BTW, back in 2001 Boris Johnson said: ‘British soldiers are not taught to murder unarmed people in the act of surrendering.

‘Bin Laden should be put on trial; not in Britain, but in the place where he organised the biggest and most terrible of his massacres, New York.

‘He should be put on trial, because a trial would be the profoundest and most eloquent statement of the difference between our values and his. He wanted to kill as many innocent people as he could.

‘We want justice.’

So, er, it looks like they’ve actually got something in common.