The main problem with the approach of the jQuery Update module is that newer versions of jQuery tend to break Drupal core JS, as well as contributed JS meant to run on the older version provided with Drupal.

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markhalliwell
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Status: Needs work » Closed (won't fix)

This has already been discussed. The many reasons for not including jQuery with this base theme are located in this comment: #1846736-28: Remove jQuery CDN setting in favor of using jQuery Update module.

If jQuery breaks core, then core should be fixed. If it breaks a contrib module, then the contrib module should be fixed. Period.