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MI6, BUSH AND FOOT AND MOUTH When I began writing on David Shayler’s website in November 1999, I expressed the opinion that we had to drive a wedge between the government and the security services. Clearly we succeeded, though we hadn’t anticipated the weakness of the Prime Minister. David reposted my revelations several times – notably in mid March last year, when the Observer responded on 19th March with a series of articles telling their readers to go to his website. To close down his website, MI6 had to get him back to Britain. Meanwhile censorship struck Britain in the form of a stick and a carrot. The stick was the new top level censorship committee (reported in the Sunday Times on May 21st last year), and the first journalist to be offered the carrot was the BBC’s World Affairs Editor, John Simpson, who was invited for lunch with wine in the MI6’s new House of Cards at Vauxhall Cross. One of John’s best friends is Sir Peter (or is it Michael?) Reddaway – a wonderful fellow who makes an excellent living at the FCO making sure as little information as possible reaches journalists and members of Parliament. Another of the many journalists that have gone to Vauxhall Cross to schmooze with the spooks is the editor who killed the Markov/Maxwell story after three months of chicanery. Such prostitution deserves more than a lunch or a knighthood, it deserves a dukedom – and a good hiding from his colleagues. With the accusations that have accumulated, the spectre of European law has been tormenting MI6 for over a year now. On top of that there is the rising scandal of Echelon. The British secret government, dominated by MI6 and the CIA head of station in Grosvenor Square, is incompatible with the modus operandi of the European Union, and legal bust-ups with Europe are looming on the horizon. It was therefore no surprise that a Republican delegation led by Senator Phil Gramm slipped into London last summer to visit the ‘unelectable’ William Haig and propose British membership of NAFTA. The secret government was hoping to solve its problems by getting Blair out and reversing Britain out of Europe and into NAFTA. Master cooks themselves, they will have no qualms about cohabiting with the Bush administration (which is run by shysters who have cooked everything from the Florida electoral rolls to the US Supreme Court). Not surprisingly, I, and members of my family, attract rather close surveillance. This can have its advantages. We occasionally have the opportunity to learn things from people with a remarkably good understanding of the black arts of politics, much better than any gagged British newspaper. For example when embarrassing documents from the Downing Street waste paper basket began to surface in the British press last June, we were told that ‘MI6 wanted to get Blair out at the next election’. However, after months of ‘Downing Street Leaks’ from Blair’s waste paper basket, the secret government and the CIA chief of station were shocked to find that Blair’s popularity was quite unaffected. As the autumn turned into winter, and the Downing Street leaks dried up, the press began to blame Blair for the worsening weather. The anti-Blair campaign, spearheaded by the huge circulation of the transatlanticly owned Murdoch/Black newspapers (25 million copies a day) was followed by the entire press – Conservative and Labour. So striking was this sustained anti-Blair barrage, that Newsweek finally made it the main subject of its May 21st issue, and printed a spoof tabloid cover with the following headlines ‘85% Chance of Rain, and Blair Does Nothing’ and ‘Manchester United Victorious Again – No Thanks to Blair’. The year-long campaign did have one stroke of luck however: last December, just after Bush’s confirmation by the Reagan-nominated US Supreme Court, a thief walked through fences and walls and got into the British Ministry of Defence Laboratory at Porton Down, a maximum security facility which contains a wide range of the most dangerous viruses and poisons in the world. The thief knew what he was looking for – he escaped with a phial of foot and mouth virus. (This information slipped past the censor and got onto the front page of the Daily Express on April 7th – the millionaire pornographer [sic] who had just bought the Express was a newcomer to British journalism and thought it was ok to print real news – something that British newspapers avoid doing if they possibly can.) A few weeks after the Porton Down theft, the foot and mouth epidemic surfaced all over England, indicating a terrorist attack, but strangely enough the British press, which usually falls over itself to report anything to do with terrorism, wasn’t interested in the terrorist angle. They were interested in the Blair angle, and for months New Labour was blamed for foot and mouth. It was announced that MI5 would investigate the Porton Down episode, but we can be certain that the report will never be made public, because Britain’s farmers might turn nasty if they find out that the viral strain that caused the outbreak was the same as the one that disappeared from Porton Down. At the behest of Charles Moore, the editor of the MI6 house newspaper, the Daily Telegraph (29th March), Blair was forced to delay the general election by a month so as to give the secret government a little more time to drag down his rating. Bellwether MI6 journalist Tom Bower struck the final futile blow for his puppetmasters on the morning of the election in the Daily Mail, with a long article exposing that Blair’s ministers had not only sabotaged the nation’s agriculture – they had cocked up the planned National Football Stadium, a shocking revelation designed to enrage English football fans, whom MI6 no doubt reckon to be the bedrock of Blair’s electoral support. Former Tory Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd had lamented the unelectability of the Tories as early as last summer, but the new Bush administration clearly knew better, and treated the Blair government as if it would not survive the General Election. Almost immediately after the presidential inauguration, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld declined to invite his British opposite number, Geoff Hoon, to Washington. Rumsfeld instead invited the Tory defence spokesman, Iain Duncan Smith. This gesture – normally reserved for US-backed opposition leaders from pariah states – was proffered to a country that a few days earlier had been the United States No. 1 ally. (I exclude Israel, of which of the US government seems to have become a part.) A few weeks later Blair turned up in Washington to meet the new President. When Bush was asked if he had anything in common with Blair, he replied succinctly, "We both use Colgate." The Bush administration was convinced it wouldn’t be doing business with Blair for long, so superfluous courtesies were dispensed with. Of course, at the heart of all this is something more than MI6’s fear of European law, and the legal exposure of its criminality. At the heart of the matter lies a major, geopolitical issue - the Bush administration’s determination to weaken the European Union and kill the euro as an international currency. If the Republicans don’t stop Britain from adopting the euro, there is a clear possibility that the euro will one day replace the dollar as an international currency, and deprive the Republican Party of its preferred method of bankrolling the arms companies that it serves - by printing more dollars. This is another important issue that the media avoid discussing. The euro is a problem not for Britain, but for America. It is America’s battles that are being fought inside the Conservative Party. Following the Blair victory, the secret government and their backers in the Bush administration have suffered a major defeat. They are stuck with Blair and will pressure him at every turn, and Blair, being Blair, will very probably give in – the firing of Cook was a dire act of appeasement following the dismissal of Mandelson and Vaz. Like Patti Hurst, Blair is too frightened to resist and has chosen to join his kidnappers – a classic example of the ‘Stockholm syndrome’. The victory of the pro-European Kenneth Clarke in the first round of the election of a new Tory leader presents another problem for the secret government. If Clarke becomes the conservative leader, that will take some of the pressure off Blair and he might conceivably find the strength to resist the forces that are already making him a historical nonentity. Britain has become a Bush sideshow, and in order to save the House of Cards at Vauxhall Cross from European justice, MI6 has abandoned what is left of British industry, is betraying the City, and because of a lunatic covert action, has laid waste to British agriculture. Not surprising, however, if we bear in mind that David Spedding and his men got away with the murder of Britain’s most popular public figure in Paris in the early hours of 1st September 1997. Not surprising, above all, if we consider the calibre of Britain’s political journalists, the Shrimsleys and the Prawnsleys, who hammer trivia out of their keyboards, and ‘kiss the whip’ of censorship, for fear of noticing the massive, and obvious political crimes of a rotten state. |
