Met penetration of Labour: Operation Leg-Over?

[Paul Rigby]

Predictably, not least to those responsible for this honeytrap op, Ed has had to uplift both his Balls (one of whom is called, a trifle confusingly for those unfamiliar with the dramatis personae, Cooper), thus enabling the Tories to align Ed with Brown, and Balls with both of them.

Was Johnson's wife targeted for a Stasi-like honeytrap?

Mixed messages are already appearing. The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) says that relationships with the targets of undercover activities were strictly forbidden. But a former undercover officer has contradicted the official line, claiming that officers were encouraged to sleep with activists. However, whether officers were abusing their position because they felt like it or because they were encouraged to do so to obtain intelligence, this does indeed look like the clearest abuse of power or "state-endorsed sexual manipulation" as one activist has described it.

The price of undercover sex in the police

Sexual manipulation of climate activists appears to have been a deliberate police tactic, and demands a public inquiry

Tamsin Allen
The Guardian, Tuesday 25 January 2011

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/...-activists

Was it the Met's intention to Balls up the Labour front-bench in the service of the Tories?

Or are there high powers yet at work here? Balls was putty in the hands of the City; and is much more closely aligned with the Obama approach to deficit spending.

Simon Jenkins on Balls the Wall St./City puppet-enabler:

For Brown's amanuensis, Ed Balls, to dare to open his mouth on this subject is beyond belief. New Labour let bankers walk all over them, as James Callaghan did trade unionists in the days of old Labour. Two bankers, Lord Myners and Lady Vadera, actually sat in Downing Street formulating policy. As Bob Diamond of Barclays suavely indicated when he humiliated the Treasury select committee this month, Whitehall has become bankers' alley.

Our protection from banks? A pile of ordure called Merlin

If half the cash showered on these casinos had gone to the high street, the economy wouldn't be in such double-dip straits

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/...double-dip