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THE WILSON DOCTRINE OF 1966 WAS DEAD LONG BEFORE THE LATEST SCANDAL INVOLVING SADIQ KHAN MP....



The most recent 'revelation' that Sadiq Khan MP was bugged by police 'intelligence' officers whilst visiting a constituent in HMP Woodhill comes as little surprise to anyone who takes a serious interest in the 'affairs' of shadow government.

During a court case which I fought against both overt and covert 'government' for close to three years, I was subjected to replete bugging of telephone calls with my defence lawyers to the extent that in the end a leading barrister refused to conduct a telephone conversation with me. The same barrister Ron Birkett, also admitted to me that one of my former legal 'representatives' had also assisted the police to record our telephone calls which should have been private under the solicitor/client contract.

And as my case progressed through the criminal courts I eventually applied for a witness summons to compel Alan Simpson MP to testify at an abuse of process hearing. Unsurprisingly, Judge Jonathan Teare rejected the witness summons application and Simpson also refused to testify but he did prove to be quite useful in the event....

In December 2004, I wrote to Simpson (MP for Nottingham South) regarding my case to ask if he could help highlight my case with the national media. After contacting several national newspapers, he was told that the press would not cover my case. Realising what I was up against - a deny reference campaign - Simpson put me in touch with Galen English of the toothless Nottingham Evening Post.

I wrote to Simpson to thank him for his 'help' and explained that I would try to keep all communications at a minimum because some of my telephone calls, emails and letters were clearly being intercepted. Simpson replied in writing to state in certain terms: "I have always assumed my own phone was bugged and simply get on with life as it is." (See letter reproduced below). But Simpson did not elaborate further on why his telephone calls were being intercepted or which agency was responsible.

Under the Wilson Doctrine of November 1966, the bugging of MPs' telephone calls is outlawed, although this is not law but merely an 'understanding' that MPs should not be bugged. The police and so-called 'security' services are supposed to comply with the 'understanding'.


Download Simpson's letter to the editor of News Alliance

And other MPs also believe they are being bugged by the police and 'security' services but few complain as they do not want what they perceive to be negative publicity. But Members of Parliament know only too well that they are fair game for the covert operations of the police and spooks. The Wilson Doctrine, if it has ever been adhered to is well and truly dead and was mere window dressing in the first place. This is what happens when the elected government is the mere tool of shadow government.

Members of Parliament are obviously arrogant and extremely naive if they 'genuinely' believe the Wilson Doctrine as ever been anything but window dressing. For decades the spooks have conducted illegal surveillance operations against 'targets' and the regulations of RIPA are easily circumvented. If GCHQ bug telephone calls without a warrant which they do and often, who is going to know? The Home Secretary arrogantly and naively presumes that the spooks and police are transparent in their dealings with government. One has only to look at the case of Commissioner Ian Blair recording his telephone calls with the former Attorney General....

But what all of this underhanded activity proves to the public is that politicians, police officers and spooks do not trust each other and frequently spy on each other. The whole of UK government both overt and covert, is gripped by fear, mistrust, loathing and above all paranoia.

In which case, just how can the public 'trust' any of these power-hungry and paranoid individuals to conduct themselves ethically and not abuse the laws of the land?

Therefore, the latest bugging scandal involving Sadiq Khan MP is another example of what has been happening for years and I rarely suggest that any New Labour politician should be believed on any matter but on this occasion I do believe that the Home Secretary was unaware that Mr Khan was being surveilled. It also demonstrates the extent to which the police and 'security' services are still out of control, despite the RIPA articles and the untenable Wilson Doctrine.

I might also add that if Members of Parliament are breaking the law or suspected of doing so, then the police should be allowed to intercept their communications but apparently the police did not conduct intrusive surveillance against Blair, Levy and fellow suspects in the cash for honours corruption scandal. I wonder why...?

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