Whitehall watchers will be seeing all this as evidence of emerging fissures in the monolithic face of British establishment power,part of which, at least ,has the sense to see that the now fragile glass house of UK PLC is not the place to start a campaign of stone-throwing against all and sundry. Dissidents, however, are not tolerated in our great democracy. See Craig Murray’s blog for more on the campaign against MacKinlay.

Mail on Sunday

12th July 2008

A Labour MP who infuriated Downing Street by meeting a Russian spy for tea in the Commons has been praised by the Kremlin for attacking MI5.

Andrew MacKinlay – who was carpeted by Labour Chief Whip Geoff Hoon for his meetings with Alexander Polyakov – is calling for British security services to be ‘brought under control’ for claiming there are too many Russian spies in the UK.

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Mr Prikhodko has got it exactly right. Sections within he British elite and security services are intent on frustrating the emergence of any pragmatic tendancy  intent on a realistic adaption to imperial decline. This senile faction of nostalgics continues to run increasingly drole campaigns against “bloody foreigners” who it sees as a threat. The culmination of their idiocy is the attempt to isolate Russia form the “international community”. However, it is Britain who is isolating itself and digging  itself deeper into a hole as its international position and  economy and financial status implode. We now urgently need to build a pragmatic centre in British politics capable of making the necessary decisions to extricate ourselves from a mess of our own making.

IHT

8th July, 2008

A top Kremlin aide suggests a British media report pointing to Russian government involvement in the killing of Alexander Litvinenko is aimed at scuttling efforts for a rapprochement between Russia and Britain.

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