04-07-2009, 08:56 PM
Peter Presland Wrote:I should have added - for those not familiar with the UK MSM - that the Daily Mail is a pretty scurrilous rag. Right wing, jumps on every populist bandwagon imaginable - especially when allegedly 'bogus asylum-seekers', immigration and 'Muslim terrorism' are involved. It is forever cheerleading the 'Our brave boys in Iraq/Afganistan' fetish too. IOW it has absolutely no issue with this country's warmongering and the establishment overarching narrative of the UK's heroic place in the world.
Agreed - and this is to neglect both its love affair with the Austrian watercolourist in the 1930s, and Dacre's gushing interview with Angleton in the late 1970s. It thus begs the question - what is going on here?
A couple of suggestions.
First up, is it designed to add a few more nails to NuLab's coffin? A public inquiry which embarrassed, let us say, a NuLab Home Office minister (or two) would surely not be unwelcome to an establishment desperate to annoint the Etonian?
Second, is it so very inconceivable that, at a wild guess, Langley is unhappy with the current leadership of their British counterparts, some of whom enjoyed less than glorious roles in events both before and after 7/7 (not to mention 9/11) - and not above nudging things in a direction which would benefit more enthusiastic UK proteges primed a couple of rungs beneath the top of the ladder?
Paul