The Common Denominator Has To Be China

Communists will be Communists, after all.

What links the Upper Echelons of Labour, the Mandelson Scandal, Jeffrey Epstein, the Chagos furore and George Osborne?

Well, none would come first in a popularity contest.

But the link is clear to anyone who wants to see it. China.

First off let’s talk Labour and Beijing.

First we had the Barry Gardiner spying furore. In 2022, MI5 issued a rare public “interference alert” naming Christine Lee (a UK-based lawyer of Chinese origin) as an agent facilitating political interference on behalf of the CCP. Lee’s firm donated over £584,000 to Gardiner’s office over several years, and he even employed her son. Gardiner also chaired a now-disbanded APPG on “Chinese in Britain” that Lee targeted. Now nobody says if you are the subject of infiltration you are complicit. But that’s a lot of cash, a lot of connection and a lot of coincidence that you are also part of a pro-China Parliamentary group. Not exactly a sinophobe…

Move forwards to present day and the astonishing situation where the UK government faced serious questions after a case against two men accused of spying for China collapsed just weeks before the trial was due to go ahead. Simply put, the Government refused to label the Chinese Communist Party as a threat to national security, and so the case collapsed. The excuse from Starmer? Legalese and process. As always.

Then we discover a new swathe of arrests had taken place and Labour MP Joani Reid is under investigation by the Labour party after her husband was arrested on suspicion of spying for China.

They just keep stacking up. Buckle up!