Much hilarity at Len McCluskey's suggestion that there are MI5 agents provocateurs in the anti-cuts-movement. But it rings perfectly true. Unless you are suggesting that a movement such as this is not riddled with MI5 agents and Special Branch officers? Now, that really would be utterly incredible.
What's that, you say? "Whatever else this may be, it is not a threat to national security"? Never stopped them in the past. So busy faffing about with things like this that they have let the real threats go unchecked.
By no means always unintentionally. It is now a matter of record that they knew all about the impending 7/7 attacks, but, seeing the opportunity to take the Michael Howard Play Book down from the shelf, they positively allowed those attacks to go ahead.
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What a nasty little snob you are. Always on hand to side with the James Bonds against the Poor Bloody Infantry and with port-swilling, agro-protectionist, America-sceptical, Israel-hating Remnant of Empire lobby against the modernising meritocrats. Typical Durham.
ReplyDeleteNot if frequent unpublishable comments on here are to be belived. Which they are not, by the way.
ReplyDeleteWhen David and I were students, Durham had a recruiter in every college and another in every department. I doubt that has changed. Not even Oxbridge has that. Durham is the spookiest university in the world, certainly in the UK. David has been doing nothing much there on full staff privileges for an awfully long time.
ReplyDeleteDavid was very close to the Theology one and the Chad's one, both now retired. The Chad's one, a very strong Arabist particularly fond of Lebanon as David is, had ties to his family going back to the War if not earlier. The Theology one also had mementos of the Christian Levant on display in his office.
David is not an agent, he is too independent-minded for that. But he is definitely part of the family. Rumour has it that temporary Durham fixtures who have crossed him have learned that the hard way. Are they the people who try to post unpublishable comments, David?
On topic, please.
ReplyDeleteCertainly explains why Con Coughlin, Nile Gardiner, James Corum, Janet Daley et al are still there while you and Gerald Warner are gone and Tim Collard has gone silent. Who is Robert Colville? Who is Will Heaven? Among others. And how long can Peter Oborne last?
ReplyDeleteBut which of them is "the Poor Bloody Infantry", and which "the modernising meritocrats" among "the James Bonds"?
ReplyDelete5, indeed! Some of us were at Durham, darling. It was exactly as described at 17:05 and doubtless still is. Anyone unaware was not/is not invited to the right parties. But we were, weren't we?
ReplyDeleteOh, that past tense. Missing the place? Who wouldn't be?
ReplyDeleteAll of the above said, MI5 agents are public sector employees, and routinely go through the books as entirely different types of public sector employee. So, while the anti-cuts movement is no doubt full of them, they are by no means necessarily there in order to subvert it.