Tory deletes ‘spy’ tweet about Jeremy Corbyn after legal threat

The Conservatives’ vice-chairman, Ben Bradley, has deleted a tweet claiming that Jeremy Corbyn had been a paid informant for Czech intelligence after the Labour leader said he would take legal action against him.

Bradley tweeted on Monday that Corbyn had “sold British secrets to communist spies”. The Conservative MP for Mansfield’s account has more than 4,000 followers.

Ben Bradley MP (@bbradleymp)

Corbyn sold British secrets to communist spies... get some perspective mate!! Your priorities are a bit awry! #AreYouSerious
February 19, 2018

Earlier, a spokesman for Corbyn, who has been subject to days of headlines after it was claimed he met a Czech spy as a backbench MP, said his lawyers would be demanding the tweet be withdrawn or Bradley would face further legal action.
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“Jeremy instructed solicitors to contact Ben Bradley to delete his libellous tweet or face legal action,” his spokesman said.

Former Czech intelligence officer Jan Sarkocy told newspapers in recent days that he met Corbyn and recruited him as an intelligence asset, which Labour has called a “ridiculous smear”.

The suggestion that Corbyn was a paid agent has been denied by the director of the Czech security service archive, Svetlana Ptacnikova, who told the BBC their files suggested Corbyn was seen as a potential contact but he was not catalogued as an informant.

“Mr Corbyn was not a secret collaborator working for the Czechoslovak intelligence service,” she said. “He stayed in that basic category – and in fact he’s still described as that, as a person of interest, in the final report issued by the StB agent shortly before he [the agent] was expelled from the UK.”

Labour has said: “[Corbyn] neither has nor offered any privileged information to this or any other diplomat. The former Czechoslovak agent Jan Sarkocy’s account of his meeting with Jeremy was false 30 years ago, is false now and has no credibility whatsoever.”

Bradley, who won his Mansfield seat from Labour at the June general election, was appointed the Conservatives’ vice-chair in charge of youth engagement during the reshuffle in January and was forced to apologise after blogs were unearthed in which he suggested unemployed people should be given free vasectomies rather than continuing to have children they could not afford to support.

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

Hiya Sassy. Hope you are well. He deleted the tweet because it was a lie, part of the Murdoch/Sun/Dacre/Conservative smear campaign against Corbyn because they know he a genuine cobtender for PM.
Even a wealthyTory deputy Chaiman can neither afford nor endure the humiliation of losing a high profile libel suite.

Do you both believe that because you’re LW?

I believe Murdoch is into more mischief because Corbyn is a serious threat to the present government, who Murdoch has backed finacially with huge donations.
He pulls the strings, his hapless editors dance to his tune and are the ones who end up in court and have to put out the many 'Sun apologies'.

eddie wrote:Do you both believe that because you’re LW?

No, I KNOW it because ai read, and he has also said he organised the Live Aid and Nelson Mandela concerts, MI5 have said.it's rubbish, as have the Czech authorities who have the records of the previous regime the overturned. I also know that the Mail and the Telegraph are terrified that they will have to pay tax under a Labour Government, after getting away with robbing this country of billions in tax over the years. As fir Boris, the point was that it was not splashed all over the papers with people calling him a traitor, because it wasn't in their interests to du so. Called using your grey matter and nit being manipulated. just saying

eddie wrote:Do you both believe that because you’re LW?

Clearly and they want to censur the truth.

Its known fact this spy did meet many Labour MP's

The British public deserve to know the truth and why an enquiry is being called for on this

If he's got nothing to worry about, give permission to release his Files !

nicko wrote:If he's got nothing to worry about, give permission to release his Files !

Exactly Nicko

All this babble about a smear campagin, is simply trying to protect people from being investigated by using poor misidrection.

Did they jump to the defense of Trump with claims of a smear campaign, when he is also claimed to be complicit with the Russians and the media targeted him?

No and that is all you need to understand here.

Trump should definately be investigated

So why should Corbyn not be investigated?

C'mon Didge, according to the brainwashed, Corbyn's shit don't stink !

Angry Andy wrote:I believe Murdoch is into more mischief because Corbyn is a serious threat to the present government, who Murdoch has backed finacially with huge donations.
He pulls the strings, his hapless editors dance to his tune and are the ones who end up in court and have to put out the many 'Sun apologies'.

Murdoch is about as politically loyal as the legendary Vicar of Bray. I don't recall hearing such Labour whining when The Sun backed Labour in five general elections since 1970, the most recent being in 2005.

sassy wrote:

eddie wrote:Do you both believe that because you’re LW?

No, I  KNOW  it because ai read, and he has also said he organised the Live Aid and Nelson Mandela concerts, MI5 have said.it's rubbish, as have the Czech authorities who have the records of the previous regime the overturned.  I also know that the Mail and the Telegraph are terrified that they will have to pay tax under a Labour Government, after getting away with robbing this country of billions in tax over the years.  As fir Boris, the point was that it was not splashed all over the papers with people calling him a traitor, because it wasn't in their interests to du so.  Called using your grey matter and nit being manipulated.  just saying

Well a few of us on here read too, Didge, Ben, myself, to name but a few, and we all used our grey matter to read that there is indeed some truth to the Corbyn spy stories.

But I really think it depends on whether or not one is really biased on a side. Personally I remain open to both left and right wing parties doing fuckeries.
As do the other posters I’ve just mentioned. One of them is RW and one is LW.

sassy wrote:

eddie wrote:Do you both believe that because you’re LW?

No, I  KNOW  it because ai read, and he has also said he organised the Live Aid and Nelson Mandela concerts, MI5 have said.it's rubbish, as have the Czech authorities who have the records of the previous regime the overturned.  I also know that the Mail and the Telegraph are terrified that they will have to pay tax under a Labour Government, after getting away with robbing this country of billions in tax over the years.  As fir Boris, the point was that it was not splashed all over the papers with people calling him a traitor, because it wasn't in their interests to du so.  Called using your grey matter and nit being manipulated.  just saying

As, of course, would The Guardian and Observer, the  controlling group of which is known to deploy considerable skill in the application of tax avoidance schemes similar to those which The Guardian in particular has publicly condemned.

The corporation tax concessions that are, no doubt, fully and legally utilised by the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph are available to, and presumably exploited by, other publishing groups. If a future Labour Government penalised those on the grounds that they do not support the Labour Party, as do the Daily Mirror, Sunday People, FT, etc, then I forecast some more very interesting revelations to come.