Corbyn's 'patriotism' questioned amid mounting pressure to release files on meetings with Communist spy

Jeremy Corbyn is under mounting pressure to authorise the release of Cold War files kept on him by the Stasi after Theresa May said he must be “open and transparent” about his links to former Communist spies.

Government ministers alluded to the Kim Philby scandal and questioned the Labour leader’s patriotism in agreeing to meet the Czechoslovak agent Jan Sarkocy during the Eighties.

The Daily Telegraph can disclose that MPs intend to call Mr Sarkocy to give evidence in Parliament about his meetings with several Labour politicians, as part of an inquiry into the influence of foreign powers on British democracy.

Details of the file held on Mr Corbyn by the Statni Bezpecnost (StB), the Czechoslovakian...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/02/19/theresa-may-says-jeremy-corbyn-should-open-transparent-links/

Had this article been about a Tory, some on here would’ve had that with scrambled eggs for breakfast and digested it nicely.

eddie wrote:Had this article been about a Tory, some on here would’ve had that with scrambled eggs for breakfast and digested it nicely.

You are right there, Eddie. The righteous indignation of both Andy and Sassy at the revelation that a Tory MP had chucked an orange peel into the gutter in Bond Street would have been a wonder to behold.

And anyway, what if Livingstone, Corbyn and McDonnell had met Czechs, Russians, Latvians, Lithuanians or even Outer Mongolians in the past?

Or if Boris Johnson had been photographed alongside someone unacceptable to the Left?

I'll make a public confession...there's a pic on't internet of me standing alongside that ghastly old perv Jimmy Savile. Does that make me a fuckin' kiddy fiddler?

Grow up people, for Christ's sake.

Green from me Fred !