Posted on 03/10/2020 11:24:29 AM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
Boris Johnson narrowly avoided his first Commons defeat over Huawei this afternoon, as senior Conservatives said they had put the Government "on warning".
Despite dodging defeat by 306 votes to 282, rebel MPs made it clear that they would not back down over the Chinese company's role in the UK's 5G network.
Chair of the Defence Select Committee Tobias Ellwood said: "I think the Government should be on warning... that this House believes that we need to wean ourselves off Huawei."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
The world should ostracize China or worse.
I like Johnson but when you pursue a bad idea that all your allies are telling you to stop (the USA and apparantly a large number of conservative MPs in the UK) and you just keep barreling through then I wonder if there’s a shady deal going on. Why spend so much political capital on ensuring China gets control of their 5G networks?
MI5/MI6 apparently told Boris that the risks were ‘minimal’ and so on that advice he went forward with the decision to allow Huawei to form the ‘non core’ 5g network.
Having said that, there are an awful lot of former senior civil servants and other government employees with cushy jobs on the board of Huawei’s UK subsidiaries, and of course these are the same agencies that produced the likes of Kim Philby, Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt etc. Who is to know that those who signed Huawei off as ‘safe’ are not in the pay of the PRC? They certainly have enough money to set them up nicely.
Never let the Chinese control your communications infrastructure.
After Brexit, BJ seems to be empty headed. Not sure they have a conservative at all in the PM office.
MI5 had a Russian (GRU) mole as it's Director General (top leader) from 1956 to 1965. They were honeycombed with traitors during the whole cold war.
Yeah, but on the up-side, it sure made for a lot good spy novels and movies...
He has never been much of a conservative. Flip flops like Mitt Romney and always has. We make a mistake when we view foreign countries as if they are just alternate Americas and the political dynamics are the same.
I keep hoping he’s a conservatives whose mistakes have to do with not understanding dealing with “the swamp”.
But the putting the free worlds next world war enemy access to your communication system is just plain brain dead.
“MI5/MI6 apparently told Boris that the risks were ‘minimal’ and so on that advice he went forward with the decision to allow Huawei to form the ‘non core’ 5g network.”
Gotta wonder if they are Deep State riddled like our own “Intelligence” agencies....
His chief advisor Dominic Cummings is very redpilled on the state of the civil service and ‘the swamp’. Naturally, the swamp is trying to attack him every way they can to get rid of him.
He isn’t totally infallible, he made stupid comments regarding the Royal Navy’s need for aircraft carriers, but since they are already built and in service, there is nothing he can do about getting rid of them now, but other than that he understands that the civil service who constitute the deep state needs gutting and fewer Oxford educated arts graduates running the country and more lateral thinkers.
So fewer Boris Johnsons, Rishi Sunaks, Dominic Raabs and Rees-Moggs, then.
...not to mention Dominic Cummingses
They are unusual mavericks of their type. Generally speaking I have little time for toffs, but I have a lot of time for Rees-Mogg, as he is an earnest patriot and is happy to embrace unfashionable views that aren’t held by the establishment.
We ought to have more people from other backgrounds though.
At least Dominic Cummings is a northerner, who are generally despised by Home Counties establishment types.
But then what is 'their type'?
It's a fallacy so suppose that Oxford arts graduates share common values and character - there's as much diversity among them as among any other large group. (Declaration of interest: I am one).
Much more recognisable as a 'type', however, are the alumni of a certain public schools. Sadly the products of Oxbridge in recent years have been much more conformist than was previously the case, simply because of the dominance of a handful of public schools in the intake.
I was fortunate to be a beneficiary of the 1944 Butler Education Act, which made it possible for children of ordinary working-class parents such as mine, who would never previously have been able to afford a university education for their offspring, to go to Oxford and not feel the least bit out of place. There's been a steady falling away from that equality of educational opportunity ever since.
Given how much Oxford is turning into a snowflake echo-chamber, no-platforming Tories, even people like Amber Rudd, and anyone who isn’t a radical leftist zombie we need to stop that generation becoming the new ruling class. I don’t want the current crop of Oxford students ruling the country in 20 years time. Oxford University now is a metastasizing social cancer.
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