Rebel Spy to Stand Against Blair in Election

Rebel Spy to Stand Against Blair in Election

By David Barrett, PA Home Affairs Correspondent

Renegade spy David Shayler is to stand against the Prime Minister in the forthcoming general election, it was confirmed today.

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Mr Shayler said he would “represent neither left nor right” and campaign on Mr Blair’s “credibility and ability to lead in the light of his lies over the war”.

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In 1997 Mr Shayler began a series of disclosures which he claimed revealed incompetence and corruption in the intelligence services.

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He also disclosed that MI5 had a file on Foreign Secretary Jack Straw because it was concerned about his involvement with left-wing politics as president of the National Union of Students from 1969 to 1971, and had also kept tabs on Solicitor General Harriet Harman, who once worked as a lawyer for the National Council for Civil Liberties – now called Liberty.

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http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4281011

I like this. First you expose them, then you run against them. Calling Mr. Clarke, calling Mr. Clarke.

Global day of Protest
Saturday, March 19th 2005 noon
Rally & March on the 2nd Anniversary of the War
End the War-Bring the Troops Home-
Rebuild Our Communities
For more info go here:
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/

More information on how to meet up with other DUers in Los Angeles go here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=141x7729

:P

the Brits imaginations cause he sounds intelligent enough.