That Corbyn fella...

Listening to R4 summary of the Sun's story on Today was funny. The dude really struggled to hold back the sarcy comments about the "revelations".

Seems odd that such a 'big' story, (from the anti-Corbyn viewpoint), is wasted on a dull Thursday, well away from any elections.
Suggests to me they had many pages reserved for dePfeffel's damp squib of a speech,
or,
the story is acknowledged to be weak, but is sufficient to distract the news cycle away from blanket dissection of the above.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/feb/19/tory-deletes-spy-tweet-about-jeremy-corbyn-after-legal-threat

I didn't realise this story needed such a strong reaction:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/feb/20/no-evidence-corbyn-was-spy-for-czechoslovakia-say-intelligence-experts

It seemed to me total nonsense when I first heard it.

Sounds like the non-Spy story has run its course. BBCR4 Today could only dredge up Failing Stephen Glover to bluster this morning.

Yeah, but it would have done its job, right. So many more people believing that JC was a spy and not fit to be PM

possibly only to entrench already entrenched views.

Do you think there are many people who do not already have a firm/set view of Corbyn,
and,
would be swayed by this?
The daily fail has been proclaiming since the 1st leadership election that JC is a career-long backbencher. To which 'secrets' would JC have had access?

Story seems to have rebounded onto the Tories and dePfeffel.

A number of people on a Porsche forum I use were convinced that Corbyn had been arrested for being a spy, but that it had been covered up. They're the standard modern day neo-Nazi/proto-facist that seem to litter the world.

Who do they think covered it up?

Ferrari owners?

The 'Stasi files' have become the new 'birth certificate'
People are such idiotic cunts

Andrew Neil (of all people) isn’t having any of it:

https://twitter.com/daily_politics/status/966278757588787201

Typical BBC bias.

Prescott came out punching again, I see.

What did Prescott do?

They've moved Ben Bradley into a total apology:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/feb/24/ben-bradley-apologises-unreservedly-for-corbyn-spy-claims

Good to see a stupid Tory manboy being schooled in the responsibilities of elected office.

what a twat

This is a proper apology! Unusual in these situations. Good for him.

Good for him? He didn't write it, Corbyn's lawyers did. He didn't choose to do the right thing, he realised he was fucked and did what he was told.

Bradley, who has more than 4,000 followers on Twitter

Wowsers! So many! Much followers!

"the right thing" would have been to resign after it became apparent he was a fucking eugenecist.

Corbyn evidently giving half-arsed support to the decision to take action against Russia (at odds with Labour backbenchers who have offered their support)

http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/1b5736b4-7c93-4827-a02f-abbf0bb36cc8