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Originally Posted by Merry Kizzmas

Mr Corbyn's spokesman said: "Jeremy Corbyn condemns the actions of his constituent as appalling acts against vulnerable people and wholly unacceptable."
Sources claimed when he wrote the letter he was unaware of the alleged links to terror.
They added: "Jeremy was approached by his constituent prior to the trial, and wrote a letter on his behalf as is standard for a constituency MP.
"This was before the full facts of the case had emerged, and was on the basis that Jeremy was informed the constituent needed to be at home with his children and would not abscond and could not travel abroad."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...Christmas.html

But with respect - No one is claiming that Corbyn knew of any terror links when he intervened on Dahir's behalf, and I even pointed this out in my original post.

The points that are being missed or ignored here, are, that:

a) Corbyn was a politician of many years standing - a holder of Public Office.
b) Corbyn was a close friend of Dahir's family.
c) Corbyn KNEW that Dahir was charged with swindling the life savings of old aged pensioners.
d) Corbyn still elected to involve himself on behalf of Dahir.

All of which add up to a pretty damning indictment of Corbyn's character and morals in that he used his parliamentary position to intercede on Dahir's behalf because he was 'close friends with the family'.

Is this example of 'Political Nepotism' not alarming at all? Does it not fall squarely in those same areas as 'Cash For Questions'? 'Cash For Influence'? and other examples of 'personal self-serving' by politicians over 'public duty'?

Does it not at least trigger some misgivings in those who - as Northern Monkey so adroitly couches it - "Can find no fault with St Corbyn"?

I find it personally asonishing that certain Labour supporters ARE so blinded by their detestation of Cameron and the Tory party, that they illogically continue to be so ferevently supportive of Corbyn in the face of one revelation after another exposing how dangerous and treacherous an idiot he is, simply because he is the Labour Party Leader.

Peter Mandleson said in an article condemning Corbyn:

"The British prefer opportunity over privilege, and fairness over entitlement"

Corbyn uses his political office to intervene on the part of a family friend - a Muslim - charged with conning OAP's out of their life savings and his supporters are quick to defend their saviour and dismiss this, as: "only "representing his constituents" or "writing a letter, is all" - but had it been David Cameron using his political position to influence a Court's decision in the matter of 'Tristram Ponsonby-Smythe, the son of the 14th Earl of Bummington, an Investment Banker charged with swindling the million pound life savings of pensioners, or Nigel Farage using his non-political celebrity status to intervene in the Judicial Process on behalf of ''Alf Whitevan-Man' charged with 'Racial Intimidation', then what a Hue and Cry there would be from these same misguided Corbyn stalwarts. What a furious flurry of copying and pasting of reportage there would be in order to CONDEMN Cameron and Farage.

And it would NOT be propaganda - Oh No. It would be fair comment.