howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#622 The crow flies very low over Moscow at noon.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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'If no one went no faster than what I do there'd be a sight less trouble in this world'
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At least Roger Godsiff MP (Lab) has worked out the evil Tory plan!
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Captain Haddock wrote:At least Roger Godsiff MP (Lab) has worked out the evil Tory plan!
Reminds me very much of the Les Dawson "peasant and phartridge" monologue.
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Until now, I’ve seen Corbynism as a tragic movement. But this week, for the first time, I started to fear what life would be like under Jeremy Corbyn, says Brendan O'Neill
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/02/the-terror-of-corbynism/'If no one went no faster than what I do there'd be a sight less trouble in this world'
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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jezza got an apology and a bit of compo from that tory snot bag who called him a spy etc.
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The apology made hilarious reading. What a boorish, ignorant display of mendacity from Ben Bradley, one of the new breed of Tory "incredible talent" rising through the ranks. Christ help us.
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And Ben Bradley, the liar, had to pay JC's legal fees AND make a considerable donation to two charities of JC's choosing (a foodbank and a homeless charity in JC's constituency).
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Actually, slightly different to my #633 post. Here is the apology in full, oh, and let's not forget that Ben Bradley MP is the Tory Vice-Chair:
Conservative Party Vice Chair Ben Bradley has apologised unreservedly for a libellous tweet about Jeremy Corbyn, pledged to never repeat the claims in any form, agreed to make a substantial donation to charities of the Labour Leader’s choosing and meet his legal costs. Jeremy will be splitting the funds between a homeless charity and a foodbank in Mr Bradley’s constituency of Mansfield.
Mr Bradley’s apology, which he will also tweet and ask followers to retweet, says:
“On 19 February 2018 I made a seriously defamatory statement on my Twitter account, ‘Ben Bradley MP (@bbradleymp)’, about Jeremy Corbyn, alleging he sold British secrets to communist spies. I have since deleted the defamatory tweet. I have agreed to pay an undisclosed substantial sum of money to a charity of his choice, and I will also pay his legal costs.
“I fully accept that my statement was wholly untrue and false. I accept that I caused distress and upset to Jeremy Corbyn by my untrue and false allegations, suggesting he had betrayed his country by collaborating with foreign spies.
“I am very sorry for publishing this untrue and false statement and I have no hesitation in offering my unreserved and unconditional apology to Jeremy Corbyn for the distress I have caused him.”
A spokesperson for Jeremy Corbyn said:
“We are pleased Ben Bradley has admitted what he said was entirely untrue and apologised, and that charities in Mansfield will benefit.
“Following the botched smear campaign against Jeremy, this case shows we are not going to let dangerous lies go unchallenged.”
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The Bishop wrote:And Ben Bradley, the liar, had to pay JC's legal fees AND make a considerable donation to two charities of JC's choosing (a foodbank and a homeless charity in JC's constituency).
Yup(ish). Bradley wrote Corbyn 'sold British secrets to communist spies' which was factually incorrect and Corbyn threatened Ben with the full majesty of the English Libel Law (Oh for something like the US First Amendment where one can say what the Hell you like about people. )
All the the whole thing shows is Corbyn's rather thin skin on matters relating to 'security'. Methinks he protests too much.
Here's an alternative view:-
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/corbyn-traitor-no-hasnt-chance/?utm_content=buffer413dc&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer'If no one went no faster than what I do there'd be a sight less trouble in this world'
Guest 1997- Registered: 3 Mar 2017
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Oh please. I love the way you preach about 16 and 17 year olds not having the maturity and judgment to vote yet will only admit this buffoon's childishness through gritted teeth. His actions make the most peevish playground bully look positively benign. "Methinks" you're the one protesting too strongly, Craddock.
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Whilst we at on the subject of treason this is in today's Sunday Times.
A former British diplomat who became the communist affairs correspondent of The Daily Telegraph is today revealed to have escaped prosecution in the 1950s after he confessed to spying for the Soviet Union. The Foreign Office covered up the scandal. David Floyd, who was described on his death in 1997 as “one of Fleet Street’s most knowledgable Kremlinologists”, admitted having passed information to Russian intelligence agents while based in Moscow at the end of the Second World War.
Top secret Foreign Office files, released after a freedom of information application, show that senior officials disregarded Floyd’s past as a student communist agitator at Oxford University and were horrified to learn of his confession in July 1951, only a few weeks after the Cambridge spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean had disappeared, igniting one of Britain’s worst spy scandals.
Like Anthony Blunt, the Cambridge spy who was allowed to pursue a career as an art historian in exchange for a detailed confession, Floyd’s spying activities were kept secret. Unlike Blunt, who was stripped of his knighthood when his past was exposed in 1979, Floyd died with his secret intact.
The papers obtained by Jeff Hulbert, a historian and author of a Burgess biography, show that the director of public prosecutions (DPP) decided not to prosecute Floyd, a fluent Russian speaker who had worked as a translator at the UK military mission and embassy in Moscow, before taking up more senior embassy posts in Prague and Belgrade. He was suspected of leaking further material from both embassies but denied this. The DPP concluded that there was “insufficient evidence” against Floyd, even though he had confessed to spying in Moscow.
He was sacked from the Foreign Office, yet one memo notes that “MI5 . . . want to find him a job” — suggesting that, like Blunt, Floyd may have struck a deal with the security services to stay out of prison. Within a year of his return from Belgrade in 1951, he was hired by The Daily Telegraph, whose then editor, Colin Coote, and deputy editor, Malcolm Muggeridge, had worked for MI6. The case against Floyd is laid out in more than 300 Foreign Office documents from 1950 and 1951. Many of them have large sections of text blacked out, signalling that the case remains sensitive almost 70 years after Floyd shocked his superiors by declaring that he “wished to make a clean breast of the affair so that I might eventually begin life anew with a clear conscience”.
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Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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I prefer this, oh Captain, my captain:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42680375
...so when is the proven liar Conservative Vice-Chair going to be suspended?
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Bob Whysman- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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A bit harsh Bishop and just in case you missed it, hanging was abolished in Great Britain in 1965.
Do nothing and nothing happens.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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your right bob, they kept hanging around.