Birds of a feather flock together

Last week the saga of Sino-British relations took yet another twist as The Telegraph revealed that Labour deliberately scuppered an investigation into two civil servants accused of spying for the Chinese Communist Party. Christopher Cash, 30, a former Parliamentary researcher, and Christopher Berry, 33, of Witney, Oxfordshire, were cleared earlier this month at the Old Bailey of offences under the Official Secrets Act.

The case was dropped because Labour refused to brand China an “enemy” power, therefore ensuring the case did not meet the threshold for prosecution under the Official Secrets Act. While bandying about the term “enemy” is not necessarily conducive to friendly international relations, one might be forgiven for arguing that a foreign power that actively spies on us, keeps our citizens in solitary confinement in Hong Kong and uses consulate staff to assault activists on the streets of Manchester - might meet the threshold. 

Buried in this story is also the jaw-dropping revelation that the Foreign Office recently lobbied MPs to lift the ban on the Chinese Ambassador entering Parliament. It is sadly no surprise that Labour would happily sacrifice national self-respect and security on the altar of cordial Sino-British relations. Access to Chinese expertise on digital identity and social credit systems (not to mention facial recognition surveillance, for which multiple contracts for cameras have already been fulfilled with CCP-controlled surveillance company HikVision) will be crucial for Starmer as he races to build his digital prison before being booted out of office at the next election.

 But this is not merely a relationship of expediency – Labour and the CCP are ideologically bound – both rooted in socialism and hell-bent on control. Birds of a feather flock together.




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