MI5, Blue Peter and Terrorism

Spying is a necessary but dirty profession. Especially spying on your own fellow citizens. Huge numbers of spies are the hallmark of tyrannies, the Stasi and KGB are reviled amongst the free.

I was watching "Smiley's People" last night. John Le Carre portrayed the MI5 of 50 years ago as a small organisation playing "cat and mouse" with Soviet spies. It suddenly struck me that MI5 is no longer a small, specialist outfit dealing with foreign subversion, it is now a huge organisation dealing with the "threat from within", just like the KGB.

What happened? The British population in the 1960s largely shared a common set of values, especially patriotic values. Now it is hard to find a middle class English woman who does not wish to see the UK disappear into the behemoth of the EU and it is easy to find New English citizens who take the part of their country of origin in preference to their real home.

It is amazing that MI5 is even allowed to use children's TV programmes to recruit. This has chilling echoes of the KGB and Gestapo.

Either we return to being a nation with borders and a national culture or we, the people, will become no more than cattle to be herded by government.

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