Corbyn Briefed Communist Spies in Cold War

Ignore the evening standard then.

There is evidence that the 'diplomat' was a spy, which is how Corbyn's name ended up in secret Communist documents as an agent.

But in all honesty, this was the cold war, it is patently obvious that agents of unfriendly governments would be acting for those governments.

The Evening Standard is reporting on what Gavin Williamson said about what the Sun reported.

It's not provided any evidence whatsoever with regards to the allegation that this thread has made.

Fair enough. May I ask you what do you think Corbyn was doing meeting a Czech diplomat then? (Im not trying to be hostile, I’m just curious)

This is a massive cop out.

Your argument is basically that he's naive as hell. I guess it's believable.

Not to mention, if a Tory minister was found to be having secret meetings with, say, Russian government officials you'd be all over it and you know it.

This is a massive cop out.

Your argument is basically that he's naive as hell. I guess it's believable.

Not to mention, if a Tory minister was found to be having secret meetings with, say, Russian government officials you'd be all over it and you know it.

Cough’ Priti Patel’ cough.

He warned them about British surveillance of their agents.

It's a valid point that this information was rather general and was unlikely to be much use in reality but, still, it shows where his sympathies lay.

Oh and by the way the evidence for this is in the article.

Finally, I suspect the reason you think this is fine but Patel was terrible is because you think the USSR > Israel amirite?

I think the point is that his counter-claim, that he was going around meeting a Czech 'diplomat' without expecting them to report their meetings back upstairs, is extraordinarily naive even to the extent which it's believable.

They have the paper documents from the Czech files. I mean, that is literally evidence. What evidence do you have that they've fabricated it?

You are so inconsistent it's funny. We have a Tory meeting with representatives of a friendly government. Yes, she probably exceeded her authority doing so and she was duly sanctioned, but the whole media hoo-hah was over the top in my opinion. Then we have a Labour leader meeting with representatives of an unfriendly government and the lefties are like "move along, nothing to see here!" Yes the situations aren't identical but your treatment of the two is apples and oranges.

Really, most MPs have willingly met multiple times with people who have identified themselves as agents of an unfriendly regime, and then discussed national security policies?

I find this a stretch.

OK so look at this. In a seismic fit of whataboutery, you have spent two sentences addressing the Corbyn issue and then five paragraphs ranting about a Tory ex-Minister who is tangentially relevant and actually was, as it happens, sacked. It's not just the inconsistency, it's that you're so desperate to move the conversation off your boi Jezza.

But since you ask, yes, giving succour to this country's enemies is absolutely worse than holding a meeting with a friendly counterpart without informing your superiors. The latter is a breach of protocol, the former flirts with treason.

And I don't know what your reading, but it has been established that he met at least three times with a representative of the Czech government. It is also established that the representative reported that Corbyn was favourably disposed towards the USSR and gave information about security that was too general to be useful. This is not accidentally gave information to someone who was undercover, this is information directly given to a self-identified agent of a totalitarian regime which he presumably thought might be helpful to their cause.

I haven't really downplayed though, have I? I said I thought the response was broadly correct. I just see it as interesting that you think one is a clear-cut, disgraceful case of international subterfuge of and one is hunky-dory.

You are selectively reading the article. It quite clearly says that he was well disposed towards the USSR and that he warned the 'diplomat' of British surveillance of communist agents. Now, you can counter that this was not wildly surprising, but you can't just ignore it.

Given the insistence from the Corbyn fans that this is fake news I look forwards to the Sun and all the other people running it being sued for defamation.

He was a diplomat from a Soviet-affiliated regime. He reported his meetings with Corbyn to his superiors and it is these documents which have now come to light. He was later expelled from Britain by Margaret Thatcher.

Calling him a spy is entirely reasonable.



No, the source of this is Czech documents. The scoop is from the Sun, but it has since been picked up by pretty much every news outlet. It's a story, whether you like it or not.

3/10 trolling.

It's an absolutely ridiculous smear and it's no surprise to see the source 'reporting it'. Let's be honest here, not even you believe the drivel written in the article Nor do you care. Instead of debating or discussing points, your side seems intent on just labeling anyone they disagree with as a 'terrorist sympathiser/traitor/trot' etc. Throw enough sh*t at the wall and hope some sticks. Some things don't change.

This is SJW type stuff from you.

My favorite line in the article is that 'Corbyn was described as having negative views about the policies of the Conservative government...'

A Labour party figure negative about the Tories? Hold the front page...

Where is that evidence? Where is the evidence that Corbyn knew or thought he was a spy? Where is the evidence that he gave him any secret information at all?

This a nonsense story. Corbyn met a diplomat - that's about the extent of it.