GCHQ, MI5 & MI6 - What are they doing and where do their loyalties lie as the UK descends into an anarchic Eton Mess?
The constitution of what was Great Britain is being systematically shredded and pulverised by its mendacious clown of a Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, and his special political advisor, Tonton Dom otherwise known as Dominic Cummings. They are seen by millions not just in the UK as the biggest threat to the "United" Kingdom's survival since the Second World War. Three appeal court judges have already de facto accused the Prime Minister of being involved in a conspiracy to mislead the Queen and illegally proroguing Parliament. Are Johnson and members of his cabinet facing lifetime imprisonment for misconduct in public office? More charges may be forthcoming.
Jeremy Fleming (GCHQ), Andrew Parker (MI5) and Alex Younger (MI6) are all entrapped in this chaos which stretches from Balmoral Castle to the Bloody Tower. The motto of GCHQ is “Peace and security through foresight”: well there was little if any visible foresight as to recent events and as for peace and security, the mother of all Parliaments has been mugged and is lying abandoned on the banks of the River Thames. Great Britain has suffered a very British coup and has become the laughing-stock of the world.
MI5’s motto is Regnum Defende, "Defend the Realm". MI5’s defences have proven outdated and futile. A couple of middle-aged desk-bound political anarchists have just strolled through the realm’s defences and ripped up the realm’s constitutional conventions et al. The ensuing crisis may eclipse all other constitutional crises ever experienced in Great Britain after centuries of democratic rule.
As for MI6, their anachronistic meaningless motto, Semper Occultus, “Always Secret” is pointless in this day and age when Trump is tweeting some of the Five Eyes’ top secrets as if they were yesterday’s tabloid newspaper headlines. Indeed, since Robert Mueller or Congress failed to arraign Putin’s puppet, President Trump, for all we know Alex Younger and co may have decided to sit out this crisis and have afternoon tea in secret at the Savoy Hotel.
So, whose side are GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 on in this unholy “Eton Mess”? What are they doing? Are they monitoring the abuse or facilitating the abusers or both? Are they feeding evidence to the UK's Supreme Court for next Tuesday’s showdown or providing that clown Johnson with dirt on his accusers? Whose side are they on: the law or anarchy? Their paymasters, the UK electorate deserve to know.
One day secrecy may destroy these bastions of the intelligence world just as democracy, being its own worst enemy, will no doubt destroy itself as is happening in the UK right now. Given the recurring shock headlines of late, it would probably come as no surprise to many were it proven that Billy Bunter Johnson like troublesome Trump might inadvertently or otherwise have become someone else's puppet. After all, they both have chequered histories which would render them unemployable other than as politicians and open to extortion by the likes of the FSB.
As for Johnson's links with Trump's Russian ties, Robert Mueller's team identified a Joseph Mifsud as a person of interest. As foreign secretary, Johnson had dinner with Mifsud to discuss Brexit. However, when asked if there was any evidence of Russian interference in British politics, Billy Bunter Johnson said: “I haven’t seen a sausage.” Maybe he was referring to the last banquet he had attended or Christopher Steele's dirty dossier.
As noted by the Guardian Newspaper, "Johnson cannot have been looking very hard". The link to the Guardian is worth a read as it shows that Johnson and others heavily involved with the "Vote Leave Campaign" were surrounded by political activists with ties to Russia such as the CEO of Vote Leave Limited, Matthew Elliott. Needless to say, Tonton Dom was also a director of Vote Leave limited. Many still in the UK government or in positions of political influence have historical ties to what was called the Conservative Friends of Russia. Perhaps the Cambridge Five have been resurrected in a dengue infested ditch in some other university town. Maybe they warrant investigating bearing in mind what has transpired since Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson was appointed Prime Minister of the UK on 24 July 2019 by less than 0.2% of the UK population.
Bill Fairclough, Faire Sans Dire
This article was first published on 12 September 2019.