We came close to losing our democracy in 1979

I Wuz There

Sincere thanks for this. The extent of the subversion was never fully known and must not now be beyond recall.

Anthony Price

Labour have always been traitorous scum. The previous generation would have sold us into slavery under the Soviet Union. The present gang have all but sold us to the EUSSR. As for Islamofascism the left always and everywhere fawn on the fifth column in our midst in the name of 'multiculturalism'.

The Laughing Cavalier

Looking at the structural damage to the economy and the social engineering imposed during the past twelve years one cannot help but wonder if there is a cadre of closet hard left politicians recruited in the '70s who are trying to achieve the same end.

Dirty Euro

Since the soviet union collapsed and life expectancy in russia declined, and the economy collapsed to 20 % of its wealth.
Perhaps Oleg Gordievsky will be seen as a bigger traitor to his own people,than a man who fought for his.

Richard

Rubbish.There was no way on earth that the Soviets could have taken power power in the UK.

This is almost as silly as the Left-Wing's crackpot idea about MI5 mounting a coup in the same period.

Tony Pandy

This is revelatory stuff. Rumours within the Labour Party abounded in the 1970s about Labour parliamentarians in the pay of the KGB or the Czech espionage service (e.g. Dalyell, Crossman), but these were usually dismissed as MI5/MI6 smear operations. What is the considered historical view now?

THX1138

Yeah and what about the secret state and it's Tory friends in the Newspapers well documented attempts to oust Wilson?

Sonya Porter

We almost lost our democracy in 76 as well. I remember that James Callaghan was rumoured to be delaying the general election because of the dreadful state of the country. Then it was reported in the papers that tanks were on manoeuvres at Heathrow. Suddenly there was no more talk of delaying the election. Could it happen again -- watch for tanks in parliament square.
---Mind you, once the Lisbon Treaty is rammed through, Britain and all the other countries of the EU will be living in a 'post democratic society' (as Lord Mandelson calls it) since the EU Parliament is not a democracy but an oligarchy.
So it may be that the tanks and Maggie just extended our democracy for a few more decades.

Penelope Brown

Having read "The Mitrokin Archive(s)" I am not in the least bit surprised by this. And I suspect that many more traitors could be named from the seventies Establishment - possibly ostensibly from the Right as well as the Left. A LOT of people wound up with property and other wealth out of all proportion to what could reasonably be accounted for from known incomes. I shall await further revelations with interest.

Bill Corr

We can look back and say that compared to dhimmitude and subjection to Islam, the Russkis seem benign. Like a Communist Afghanistan now seems a splendid idea in retrospect.

One hates to mention rumours that chaps like John Major are, directly or otherwise, receiving a few Riyals or Dirhams in Gulf baksheesh, but what exactly is the quid pro quo, if any? A sweet deal with BAe Systems or what?

Who is on the Sheikhs' payroll and why?

Marek

I'm in my mid 50's, the son of second world war Polish refugees. While my parents' former country was being enslaved by the Soviet Union I had to endure people like the ones you mention declare that the Soviet system was one to which this country should aspire while they sought to achieve that.

I am grateful for your analysis.

Let us not forget that there were many senior people in the Labour party who were tacitly offering their support. Not least Tony Benn.

Colonial

Intriguing. But the white ants are still eating away.

In the West the Left still own almost totally the moral high ground. Communists are still Uncle Joe's earnest successors who just got things a touch wrong, the Right painted as a horrible extension of Hitler who would like to shunt blacks into cattle trucks.

Most power and influence remains in the hands of the Left whilst the more conservative and those of the middle ground, who ought to be running society, slope off in disgust to make money in relative peace and quiet. And in the creation of toxic banking products and obscene corporate salaries, cause more destruction and prove that the devil makes work for idle hands.

So we have not seen the end of this story yet. More damage, much more, on the way before the pendulum swings again.

Douglas Eden

In answer to the Laughing Cavalier and others, most of the '70s travellers are dead; but it is true that many of younger ones joined 'New' Labour after the demise of the Soviet Union. Some of them are still ministers in the present government and have served for years, but none are in the Cabinet. They can easily be identified.

Andrew W

Not only was this happening at a nattonal level. Despite all the jokes, there were 6 people in the Cowley Operations of British Leyland whose aim was "the destruction of the british motor industry as a major exporter which will lead to a million unemployed and revolution".

These people had been at Cowley since at least 1959 and used to disappear for long weekends and return with lots of cash to fund their activities. I know because I spent 18 years of my life fighting these people and being constantly undemined by managers who did not even realise they were in a war.

I know how they worked and they were not the obvious candidates, they generally remained below the parapet and elevated their sacrificial stooges to be shot at.

Cllr Jeremy Zeid (Con) L.B.Harrow, HMP-England

It would be interesting to list those in the current "New" fascist Labour government that were/are paid up communists and trots. The way that the country is being turned into a sovietized, propaganda-ridden, puritanical police state is truly frightening. Everything corrupted, children propandized, state spooks and sneaks everywhere, CCTV, databases, rafts of "offences", the law and liberties trashed....