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In this episode of RT's Going Underground, former MP and author of A Very British Coup and The Friends of Harry Perkins, Chris Mullin, spoke about the history of MI5 and MI6 meddling in UK politics against Labour Party leaders. He also estimated whether a British coup is underway against Jeremy Corbyn.
The story of A Very British Coup was set in the 1980s when there was speculation about the possibility of a government led by someone like Tony Benn and the establishment conspired to bring it down. The establishment in this case being a sort of mixture of the security and intelligence services, the media barons, with a little help from the Americans.
Tony Benn looked likely to become deputy leader of the Labour Party which at the time was strongly challenging the government of Margaret Thatcher in the opinion polls. Persistent rumours circulated over the years about attempts by members of the British security services, and other wings of the British Establishment, to undermine and depose Harold Wilson's Labour government of the mid-1970s. This first became widespread public knowledge around 1986 with the controversy over Spycatcher, after the publication of the novel but before the broadcast of the TV version.
The story also has echoes of the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis in which there was alleged CIA involvement to remove a government proposing to close US military bases on Australian soil.
Mullin said that MI5 has been 'cleaned up' and it won't intervene to overthrow Jeremy Corbyn, yet he can't say the same about MI6. There are no indications that MI6 has changed on that matter and referred to an article by Sir Richard Dearlove, former head of the MI6. The article was published on the front page of The Daily Telegraph on the day of the last general election of 2017, saying that Corbyn was a threat to the nation.
We already pointed out that it seems that there is an even bigger threat against the neoliberal regime: the probability of a Bernie Sanders/Jeremy Corbyn synchronization in power, which will mark the definite end of the Ronald Reagan/Margaret Thatcher awful legacy.
It seems that the regime is losing the battle of information. Typical narratives hardly work to the point that, in many cases, regime's various operatives have retired from trying to find any pretexts to justify its actions.
It also seems that the regime is running out of sustainable political options to preserve its power. Now that its fascist nature has been exposed, a 'solution' of last resort, even inside one of the motherlands of neoliberalism, should not be considered unthinkable.
It also seems that the regime is running out of sustainable political options to preserve its power. Now that its fascist nature has been exposed, a 'solution' of last resort, even inside one of the motherlands of neoliberalism, should not be considered unthinkable.
Therefore, if things 'derail' widely from the typical status imposed by the regime, a British-style coup won't be enough to preserve its power. It would probably take a CIA-orchestrated Latin America-type military coup, even inside the UK.
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