Nanumaga has an entertaining FSB piece on doubts about the official story of Jeremy Corbyn's stint as a 19-year-old Cadet VSO and a conspiracy theory linked to those doubts.
Jeremy Corbyn and a Conspiracy Theory Which Doesn’t Quite Add Up
Oddly enough, although he's four years older and almost diametrically opposed politically, on everything, we have some similarities in background, not least the fact that he was a 19-year-old Cadet VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas.)
The odd thing about my time as an 18-year-old school leaver VSO is that I came home with a girl on a fiancée visa, which wasn't universally popular for any number of reasons. If I'd got odds on a 50+ years marriage from the family bookie in Sunderland at the time, Joseph Gardiner and Son, I'd have made a few thousand with a £5 bet in 1972.
The odd thing about Corbyn is that he didn't come home after one year. VSO was quite strict about the Cadet Scheme, (School leavers under 21), and extensions were forbidden. At the time and age of young Jeremy, VSO was 'in loco parentis' to some extent, and this would have been extended through the British High Commissioner, and staff, in Kingston, Jamaica.
Not that questions about the details of Jeremy Corbyn's early life matter much now, but the whole piece is well worth reading.
Oddly enough, although he's four years older and almost diametrically opposed politically, on everything, we have some similarities in background, not least the fact that he was a 19-year-old Cadet VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas.)
The odd thing about my time as an 18-year-old school leaver VSO is that I came home with a girl on a fiancée visa, which wasn't universally popular for any number of reasons. If I'd got odds on a 50+ years marriage from the family bookie in Sunderland at the time, Joseph Gardiner and Son, I'd have made a few thousand with a £5 bet in 1972.
The odd thing about Corbyn is that he didn't come home after one year. VSO was quite strict about the Cadet Scheme, (School leavers under 21), and extensions were forbidden. At the time and age of young Jeremy, VSO was 'in loco parentis' to some extent, and this would have been extended through the British High Commissioner, and staff, in Kingston, Jamaica.
Not that questions about the details of Jeremy Corbyn's early life matter much now, but the whole piece is well worth reading.
There's that story about what Corbyn did after his two year's as a Cadet VSO teaching in Jamaica which can only have been one year. I'm pretty sure that whatever he did after one year as a Cadet VSO didn’t look anything like the Wikipedia entry which his supporters have fabricated.
If he'd spent the next year in Jamaica smoking grass and pimping whores in Kingston it would be more interesting but equally not credible.
The conspiracy theory was that he spent the missing year, or two, in Cuba and that he was recruited by Cuban Intelligence/KGB. The problem with that theory is resolved around one word -'intelligence' - not a commodity with which Jeremy Corbyn is known to be well-endowed.
If he'd spent the next year in Jamaica smoking grass and pimping whores in Kingston it would be more interesting but equally not credible.
The conspiracy theory was that he spent the missing year, or two, in Cuba and that he was recruited by Cuban Intelligence/KGB. The problem with that theory is resolved around one word -'intelligence' - not a commodity with which Jeremy Corbyn is known to be well-endowed.
5 comments:
"Jeremy doesn’t strike me as the sort of 19-year-old, from a comfortable home, who would cheerfully walk across a fragile jetty over water to hang his arse off a coconut tree trunk and have a shit under a thatched roof every morning"
Credit where credit's due. The man was romantically entangled with Diane Abbott, so bodily functions under difficult circumstances are certainly not beyond him.
Maybe he was tasked with infiltrating Islington.
Sam - good point, although not a thought to linger on.
James - that would explain why he clings on with such tenacity, it's the only thing he's done with some success.
It reminds me of the story about the KGB rejecting Tony Benn as an agent on the grounds that he was too stupid. Could it be the same yarn recycled?
dearieme - it probably is the same yarn. These days it's likely to be Chinese agents, so Weird Ed may attract that version of the yarn eventually.
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