Jonathan ashworth secretly recorded saying what everyone knew he thoughtArchived Message
Posted by Sinister Burt on December 10, 2019, 12:15 pm
I've never trusted johnathan ashworth since i heard that he was made a shadow minister based on being a member of Progress, and that they had to have one progress minister on the NEC (god knows why). Hearing that he was secretly recorded slagging off corbyn by his tory mate, who he was friends with from when they went to america together just confirms my view - and what was he doing in america anyway? the same dodgy scheme that ed balls, yvette cooper and the blairs went on before they became MPs? Getting judged safe by the real boss (like in the film 'The Ghost Writer'). I bet it wasn't even 'secret' recording. If corbyn wins, it's these people who lose as well as the tories - and vice versa ('partei' haters take note).
This is from the guardian showing his reaction (i don't want to go to guido fawkes to get the transcript of the recording): "Here are more quotes from what Jonathan Ashworth told the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme about the tape recording of him saying Labour would lose, which was leaked to the Guido Fawkes website. (See 10.30am.) He said:
We’re having banter with each other – we’re joking around.
No, I don’t mean it, because I’m joking around with my mate because he’s a Tory ... If you leak it to Guido Fawkes of course it makes me look like a right plonker, but its not what I mean when I’m winding up a friend – I’m trying to sort of pull his leg a bit.
Asked if he thought Jeremy Corbyn was a threat to national security, Ashworth replied:
No, of course I don’t …
I’m joshing around with somebody who I thought was an old friend, who has now leaked it to Guido Fawkes, an old friend who I’ve known for many years.
He’s a Tory and we’ve always had a bit of banter together … I’m winding him up, I’m teasing him, he’s been winding me up saying ‘oh, everyone at CCHQ thinks it’s going to be really close, Corbyn’s going to win’ and all this sort of stuff."