Jeremy Corbyn rakes in £££ from torturers

Completely agree. I thought he was utterly misguided but principled in his own way. This demonstrates that he is not even that. He will apparently accept money from criminals who murder people simply for their sexuality, who keep women as second-class citizens, who torture to keep their vice-like grip on power.

I think what sinks him is accepting the money from the Al-Thanis. The Al-Thanis are basically just like a mini-Saudi. They are Islamic extremists who also buy American weapons and host American troops in their country, while at the same time providing funding to groups like Hamas and al-Nusra. That means that basically every criticism Corbyn has made about the Saudis is tainted by utter hypocrisy.

It's also interesting that he does seem to spend a lot of time scrabbling around for cash; he does loads of surveys for £75 (how on earth do you get in on that racket? I'm a poor student and could really do with some money like that), as well as regularly earning £150 speaking fees for an hour's work for Capita. Apparently accepting his £60,000 salary and spending his time working for his constituents is not enough.

He claims some of the lowest fees for expenses

How does a low expense claim rate make accepting money from murderous, criminal regimes acceptable? Genuine question. It seems somewhat beside the point.

If you are referring to the speaking fees, then I'd point out that expenses claims are not additional income, they are for legitimate expenses. If he has expenses then he can claim them. When he fills out these surveys and takes money from Capita, he's not doing that to pay his expenses. He's doing it to earn extra income which he can spend on whatever he likes.

Personally, I would have thought that if he has all this spare time he should be spending it on constituency business. It was pointed out that prior to becoming leader, his constituency website mentioned Israel 141 times and Islington only 120. I think that does give you a sense of his priorities

Perhaps he does media work for Al Jazeera, again, not something I am too concerned about either, as Fox heavily invest in other politicians.

Ethically if you don't like who he associates with, that's your opinion, but why no outrage at MPs who are also landlords or on boards for Energy or medical firms?

MIA

Its great when the Arabs come over to London with their supercars every Ramadan.

I was pointing out that he is a recipient of tens of thousands of pounds from the Iranian government and the royal house of Qatar. Nothing to do with Palestine and nothing to do with Israel. Being an opponent of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank (which I am) does not necessitate taking tens of thousands of pounds from a murderous, homophobic crime family like the Al-Thani.

But I suppose the Corbynite left has repeatedly demonstrated it is willing to throw gay people under the bus when it comes to considerations of "anti-imperialism". Perhaps I see it differently because it is jarring to know that the leader of my party takes money from regimes that would kill me simply because I fancy other guys.



Fox? We don't even have Fox in the UK. And in any case, that's a painfully weak argument as I abhor Fox News. Taking the position that it's okay for Corbyn to take money from corrupt propaganda networks because other people do it too hardly bespeaks the great moral purity for which Corbyn is constantly telling us he stands. He's basically the same as any other grubby politician



That is a logical fallacy. I criticise many things. You don't know what I do or don't criticise. This thread is about Corbyn, and as per usual it's impossible to have a conversation about anything he does without his supporters saying "Whatabout this? Whatabout that?"

Corbyn claims to be no less than a moral exemplar. His supporters tell us he is something akin to a new John the Baptist. What this shows is that he is willing to accept grubby cash payments in exchange for legitimising the propaganda arms of two of the worst regimes in the world.

Okay I see your argument, I'm a little disappointed if true as well about these payments but as I say, in a scale of relativity it isn't the worst

Iran and Qatar? Iran has been recognised by the United States and Qatar is hosting a WC, like it or not they have influence and I'm sure a number of people will have similar business dealing.

I really don't accept that as a Corbynite I throw gay people under the bus, nor does I think Corbyns association with them imply that he is some kind of homophobe.

In the same way that the UK recently signed a trade deal with Saudi Arabia, surely by that logic the UK govt is also doing this.

So in a nutshell, understandably you are annoyed by this link, but what has he done for them? Surely you should judge him by what he does

I like the bit where the Saudis don't want to nuke us

So that's it? It doesn't matter how awful a country is as long as they are our allies it's fine.

If they were taking part in full blown ethnic cleansing I would care, but harsh punishments for some fat old ex-pat who thought he was clever for homebrewing alcohol, I have no sympathy at all. He knew the rules, he chose to go there, if you want to smuggle alcohol, don't go to a hardcore Muslim country and brag to your mates at how you're bootlegging, he's a ****ing idiot.

The Iranians actually cause us direct problems, they should focus on sugar waxes and belly dancing.

Or crucifying someone for writing a politics blog.

It's a terrible moral prism to look at a country through. If all you care about is whether a country is a threat to us (I'm pretty sure ISIS is a threat) then you can justify many awful regimes, as long as they aren't doing a holocaust I guess. I'm sure Chinese officials say the same about Korea. There are people who are not British in the world as well. What if it is us doing the oppressing?

Any criticism of Corbyn and his dodgy money are a a joke when the person doing the finger waving think like that.

Any criticism of Corbyn and his dodgy money are a a joke when the person doing the finger waving think like that.

A friend sent me this link to Jeremy Corbyn's register of interests on the TheyWorkForYou website. What caught my eye was that Corbyn has repeatedly accepted £5,000 payments from the Iranian propaganda arm Press TV and £5,000 payments from Al Jazeera, which is owned by the Al Thani dynasty, which is the ruling house of Qatar. I added it up and it looks like Jeremy Corbyn received £40,000 from the Iranian government and Qatari royal family from 2009 to 2012.


Thoughts?

The point here is that he isn't actually taking money from the Iranian Government or the Qatari royal family. He is being paid by organizations owned by these two groups

He's taking away money from them so they will run out of it.

So that's it? It doesn't matter how awful a country is as long as they are our allies it's fine.

He's taking money from them so he won't run out of money ;-)

So that's it? It doesn't matter how awful a country is as long as they are our allies it's fine.