Communism almost took over the UK
Why we have to be very cautious of unionists, especially those of the CFMEU in Australia.
From The Spectator and The Australian:
THIRTY years after Britain's notorious winter of discontentment, it has become clear that the election of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government not only ended a long period of Labour prohibit but also defeated the Left's attempt, led from the trade unions, to transfigure British parliamentary democracy into a form of Soviet conditions.
The leading figure in this story was the general secretary of Britain's largest union, the Transport and General Workers Union, and chairman of the Trades Union Congress's oecumenical committee, Jack Jones. In 1977, more than half the respondents to a Gallup poll named him the most powerful man in Britain. Only half as many named the prime cleric, James Callaghan.
Jones died only a few weeks ago at the age of 96 and, after a series of anodyne obituaries not speaking ill of the dead, the brief hiatus on his reputation was suitably ended by one of his KGB case officers, Oleg Gordievsky, the best-known surviving KGB turncoat to the British.
He confirmed this year that Jones was a Soviet agent.
"I was his last case officer, meeting him for the final time in 1984 at Fulham (six years after Jones's retirement), together with his ball, who had been a Comintern agent since the mid-1930s," Gordievsky wrote in April. "I handed out to him a small amount of cash. From 1981, I had had the recreation of reading volumes of his files, which were kept in the British department of the KGB until 1986, when they were passed on to the archive."
The idea that Jones had a minute collaborative relationship with the Soviet side in the Cold War will surprise and perhaps alarm many who recall how influential he was in British politics during his prime.
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