[jaxie]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Yes, it was a wonderful speech.

They thought wrong then didn't they?

Is it any different to Priti Patel meeting Israeli officials off the record?
That was poor judgement from a minister wasn't it?

Essentially what you are saying is MPs and diplomats shouldn't meet with anyone... how then are international relations to improve?
What do we pay our representatives to do then?

It was indeed poor judgement and Priti Patel had to resign her cabinet position. I assume Jezza's resignation as leader of his party is imminent?

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by jaxie

It was indeed poor judgement and Priti Patel had to resign her cabinet position. I assume Jezza's resignation as leader of his party is imminent?

Why?... Ms Patel had covert meetings with these representatives. Corbyns meetings with the person in question are well documented so where is the subterfuge?

[jaxie]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Why?... Ms Patel had covert meetings with these representatives. Corbyns meetings with the person in question are well documented so where is the subterfuge?

You were the one who said it was no different.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by jaxie

You were the one who said it was no different.

And... What's your point here?

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by jaxie

It was indeed poor judgement and Priti Patel had to resign her cabinet position. I assume Jezza's resignation as leader of his party is imminent?

Priti Patel was in government as a Minister,when she made bad judgement AND set out to deceive her Prime Minister by not telling her the full account of things.

A world away from a lowly backbencher barely in parliament for only a few years,who on paper met some people,some not all,considered possibly unsavoury.
A backbencher of a weak opposition party at the time too.

Now people can decide not to vote for him due to rumour and dubious sources of the information against him.

However Priti Patel's deliberate deceit to her Prime Minister is what got her sacked.
She was still originally left in position even after the questionable judgement of her meetings on a holiday were known, until it became known she had not informed her leader and PM everything.

Totally different to this,as yet unsubstantiated as to anything done wrong at all story,relating to Corbyn.

[jet]

Corbyn, a suspected anti - British, anti establishment figure has several meetings with an eastern bloc ‘diplomat’, and some see nothing at all dodgy there. It was the time of the Cold War, and large numbers of previous ‘diplomats’ had been expelled for espionage. Politicians and civil servants were warned about their activities and were wary of any approaches because of those previous discoveries.
Any politician would have had to be thick to not automatically suspect any approach by an eastern bloc ‘diplomat’, unless they supported their cause of course. So which was it - in this instance was Corbyn corrupt or blindingly stupid? Take your pick.
I’d go for both. Shady as hell as usual, and there is probably a record of a note somewhere by the diplomat saying ‘met a stupid idiot called Corbyn today - could be a useful idiot'....