Corbyn McDonnell Livingstone Labour Spy claims

[Supersub6]

I would love to know why our own spy network was on holiday whilst JC was undermining our nation's security?

LIke I said --they only tell you what they want you to know ---they could well have a D-notice on the information!

[1959_60]

This story reminds me of the way the Tories and the civil service acted in the 60's and 70's when Harold Wilson was PM.

Nasty, nasty lot are the Tories. Not to be trusted.

I'm not saying that Corbyn doesn't need to explain himself - he certainly does - but there may well be wheels within wheels...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold...iracy_theories

[Norder]

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I would love to be a fly on the wall if Corbyn ever met Trump.

wasn't much said - BT.

[oldcolner]

If Jerry and Don met...

Now that would be a good new thread.

working with Russia might be No 1
Being a leader whose own elected members don’t support no 2
Women we have known might be another.
Bike riding in London maybe.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Corbyn has instructed his solicitors to sue for libel.

[sinkov]

There's always been fellow travellers, reds under the bed. Remember Red Robbo in the 70s, trying to destroy British Leyland, and making a pretty good of it actually. Eventually they'd had enough and sacked him, a strike was called in his support but only a few hundred of the 15,000 workforce voted to support him. The ordinary working class man was sick to the back teeth of communist inspired union leaders trying to wreck their industries and threaten their jobs.

Despite the myths and legends built up since, support for Scargill and the NUM strike was only lukewarm amongst the miners in the 80s as well, whole areas voted against the strike and were only dragged into it reluctantly by mass picketing, or intimidation as it could also be called.

This willingness to take on the Unions, which Labour under Wilson had tried to do in the 60s with Barbara Castle's 'In Place of Strife', was one of the main reasons she was so popular, Labour backed down in their attempt to bring the law and some form of sanity into industrial relations, Thatcher didn't. The Left are unable to come to terms with Thatchers popularity in the 80s, hence their attempts to re-write history and demonise her at every opportunity, and to be fair, they have been quite succesful at it so far, you'd think she arrived like a thunderbolt from the heavens about 1980 and suddenly set about laying into the unions, instead of the actuality which was that she was simply of her time, and pushed through much needed reforms to Industrial Relations which Labour had previously attempted but failed miserably to achieve.

And far fewer pits closed under her Tory government than closed under Wilson's Labour government, but point that out to lefties at your peril, that fact seems to derange them, they struggle to cope with it, it tips them over the edge.

[oldcolner]

Corbyn has instructed his solicitors to sue for libel.

Yes BT but only suing one Tory MP for a tweet saying he sold secrets, not any of the papers for the original story.
I wonder why he isn’t suing them too?

[sinkov]

Yes BT but only suing one Tory MP for a tweet saying he sold secrets, not any of the papers for the original story.
I wonder why he isn’t suing them too?

He's deleted the tweet anyway. so Agent Cob's lawyers can get back to doing something useful.

[sinkov]

Jeremy Corbyn has always railed against Mutually Assured Destruction because it really is a MAD concept.

I work on the premise that debate, negotiation and deliberation is a whole lot better than hitting the NUKE red button. If and it's a big IF, Corbyn was having talks with the Eastern Bloc to prevent the escalation of the Cold War and prevent Armageddon then good on him I say!

Agent Cob has also always railed against Capitalism, and on the inside cover of the four different Union cards I've held, it said on one of the main aims of the Trade Union movement was to bring about a Socialist system of society, but nothing about preventing nuclear war. So I work on the premise that whatever Agent Cob was talking to the Czechs about, it was far more likely to be about bringing down our capitalist government than nuclear armageddon, but it's no big surprise, that's what lefties did back then. That's why Thatcher hated them.

[1959_60]

We could talk all year about the merits or otherwise about Thatcher and we wouldn't change our opinion one bit.

So, to be magnanimous, I'll just highlight a few the good things she did.

She was very influential in setting up the single market - and urged British companies to embrace the EU, explaining how good it was to have free trade with our neighbours.

As an inevitable consequence of this, the Euro was introduced.

She was a keen advocate of a European Army which, she thought, would give more security for Britain and the EU.

She poured billions of pounds into supporting our failing car industry - a form of nationalisation.

I don't know what the limit for length of posts is on here, but if I was to give my views on the bad stuff she did it would be sure to go beyond the limit.