SPOOKING UKIP

Lord Pearson of Rannoch.

Quentin Letts writing in the Daily Mail reported on a question posed in the House of Lords by the UK Independence Party Peer, Lord Pearson of Rannoch.

The UKIP Peer put down a Parliamentary question asking the Government if ‘the Security Service has been or is active inside or towards the United Kingdom Independence Party or any of its members’. Quentin Letts said the question asked was: “Were the spooks or police collaborating with European Investigators in relation to UKIP?”

Astonishingly, rather than an outright denial, or a confirmation, all that came back from Lord West who is a Home Office Minister was, ‘no comment’.

He then said that MI5 is prohibited from ‘doing anything in furtherance of the interests of a political party’. As Quentin Letts pointed out, it was “not quite an answer to Lord Pearson’s question”.

Mr Letts theory is: “The Government states that European Union membership is in the national interest, UKIP disagrees. Might not MI5, applying logic, therefore say it should put a tail on UKIP’s wilder elements?” Considering that a large number of UKIP members are of more mature years and the members of ‘Young Independence’, which is the under thirties sector of the party are mostly young people either studying or have degrees, it takes some imagination to consider that UKIP has any wilder elements – unless this UKIP supporting blog is considered wild?

This leaves the question, are those of us who are generally interested in protecting British interests, being monitored by MI5 which in turn is acting on behalf of those in Government who are acting against our interests by surrendering our sovereignty because in reality they are protecting their own interests