The British Nationalist

John Reid was a Communist.

David Blunkett was very left wing. He was the leader of Sheffield City Council when it was known as “the socialist republic of South Yorkshire”.

Jack Straw was a very left-wing (Communist) President of the NUS.

Charles Clarke, was a very left-wing (Communist) President of the NUS.All of these were Home Secretaries under Blair.

Trevor Phillips, Chairman of the Commission for Equality,was a very left-wing (Communist) President of NUS.

Peter Mandelson was a communist.

Brian Wilson was a Trade Minister in Chairman Blair’s 1997, New Labour government. Almost as soon as TB gave him the job, Wilson shot off to Cuba.

He said of this visit:
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During that first ministerial visit, I was guest of honour at a small dinner and retain a copy of the diplomatic telegram which recorded the occasion. The opening summary reads: ‘Unscheduled invitation from Castro to Mr Wilson to dinner… Close rapport established between Castro and Mr Wilson.’ The dinner ended with him toasting ‘Tony Blair and the third way’ while I responded by raising my glass to ‘peace and socialism’.

I have now had half a dozen such sessions with Castro… Cuba will continue to evolve pragmatically, as it has done beneath the rhetoric for 40 years, in order to defend the integrity of its achievements.

Charles Clarke, Jack Straw, Peter Mandelson, Trevor Philips and Brian Wilson all visited Castro’s Cuba on official-ish business long before they became MPs.

Alan Johnson admits he was close to the Communist Party in his youth.

Before Alan Milburn joined the Labour Party in 1983, he was the manager of a socialist bookshop in Newcastle, a communist sympathiser, CND activist and left wing councillor.

Frank Dobson was the leader of loony-left camden Council.

Stephen “Lyers” Byers and Charlie Whelan, Gordon Brown’s spin-doctor, were very left wing and probably Communist in their youth.

Alistair Darling was a leading left-winger on Lothian Regional CouncilPaul Boateng, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Former, was a loony-left, PC councillor.

Denis MacShane, ex-Minister for Europe, was a very left-wing, very PC NUJ leader.

David Triesman, who was ennobled by Tony Blair and made Baron Triesman in January, 2004, was the General Secretary of the Labour Party from 2001 to 2003. He was, last time I looked, a Foreign Office Minister in Tony Blair’s government.
He was also a significant figure in the Euro-communist movement of the 1970s.

South African MP, Peter Hain, was convicted at the Old Bailey of criminal conspiracy in the early seventies. In the March, 1970 issue of Challenge, the Young Communist magazine, Hain wrote:
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Local groups and activists have been mobilised throughout the country in preparation for the ‘Seventy Tour’… an important part of our build-up strategy will be to mobilise the trade union movement in support of the campaign.
This will be an area where we shall need the active support of young workers and particularly Young Communists…We have not been prepared to continue with the tactics of patient petitioning and polite protesting.

Hain was also the first leader of the Anti-Nazi League, which organisation was set up in 1976 to combat nationalism in Britain.

Margaret Hodge, ex-Minister for Children, was the leader of the looniest of the loony left councils, Islington. She had a bust of Lenin installed in the town hall. During her tenure, Islington became known as the “Socialist Republic of north London”.

Ken Livingstone’s record speaks for itself.

Tony Blair’s father was, at one time, a communist.Mind you he was, at another time, a Tory as well, so we won’t hold that against him.

The father of David (next Labour leader) and Ed Miliband was an immigrant Pole who became one of the leading Marxist lecturers of the age on the British university circuit.

There will have been a lot more top-ranking Blairites and Brownites who were Communist sympathisers at one time and many of these still will be.My apologies for not nominating all the “parties” these were and may have been affiliated to.

(Excerpt from a well known nationalist forum)