The Flooding of the Somerset Levels

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…. by  Michael Shrimpton

 

Flooding is a problem all over Europe now with budget cutbacks
Flooding is a problem all over Europe now

Why should the flooding of 25 square miles of South West England have geopolitical significance?  

Why are the eyes of the intelligence community turning towards Burrowbridge and Westonzoyland? Because the ‘Jerries’ have gone too far this time, that’s why. 

That’s the great thing about having Germany as an enemy – she never knows when to stop.  They tend to over-reach themselves.  Pride comes before a fall.

The Levels

For those who have not traveled through them the Levels are a hauntingly beautiful part of one of England’s most beautiful counties, Somerset.  A little like a Dutch polder they are low-lying and vulnerable to flooding if rivers like the Parrett & Sowy are not dredged.

They lie to the east of the towns of Taunton and Bridgwater and are rich farming land.  The most recent major battle in England, the Battle of Sedgemoor, was fought in this part of the world, in 1685.

As informed readers of VT will know, the Duke of Monmouth was defeated by the forces of King James II, a slightly dodgy monarch, with respect, who was too close to the Vatican.  He eventually abdicated three years later.  American troops flew to Normandy from RAF Weston Zoyland on D-Day.

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The Collapse of the Civil Service

Back to nature - the hard way
Back to nature – the hard way

Undermining the efficient Home Civil Service was a key German strategic aim in the 20th century.  In 1968 a committee headed by the German spy John Fulton, then Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussex (who brought in fellow German agent Hartley Shawcross as Chancellor), presented the notorious Fulton Report.

The idea was to make the Civil Service less accountable and less efficient, although as with most German propaganda these aims were disguised.

Lord Fulton thankfully died in 1986, but not before he had done immense damage to Britain and cost many Allied lives.  In World War II Fulton worked closely with his Abwehr colleague Harold Wilson on passing critical intelligence about Atlantic Convoys to German Naval Intelligence, via Dublin.

It is a great pity that Fulton died peacefully.  In a just world he would have choked to death on fuel oil in a freezing ocean in the middle of winter, like so many of his victims.  He was an utter bastard, with respect, and the failure to hang both him and Harold Wilson was one of the great counter-intelligence failures of World War II.

Mountbatten - Before the IRA got him
Mountbatten – Before the IRA got him

The Fulton Report has to be read in the context of the abortive German-backed military coup in 1968, when that nice man General Sir Walter Walker, a friend of several friends, was persuaded that Wilson was a Soviet spy and that Lord Mountbatten was working for us.  Mountbatten, like his notorious father, Prince Louis von Battenberg, was of course working for our community partner ‘the Hun’.

The ‘Hun’ was livid at Wilson’s failure to force Britain into the EEC in 1967.  The idea was to impose a military dictatorship on Britain which would take us into the EEC after an assault on the pound and a campaign of false economic propaganda, similar to that being waged now to keep us in the EU.

The ‘Hun’ was not satisfied with Fulton.  The next step was the ‘Next Steps’ report, in the late 1980s.  The idea was to bring responsible government in the United Kingdom to an end and transfer around 80% of Civil Service functions away from government departments.

It was a huge success, for the German enemy at any rate.  The idea that government ministers are responsible in any meaningful way for the actions of bureaucrats is now seen as a joke.  The United Kingdom has ceased to be a functioning democracy.

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The Environment Agency

Lord Smith
Lord Smith

One of the most hated Next Steps agencies is the Environment Agency, headed by the failed Labour politician (no offense) Lord Smith.  He was chosen due to the smallness of his brain, again no offense intended.  He is so dumb, with respect, that he actually believes in man-made global warming, I mean actually believes in it.

Chosen by the Cabinet Office, he was seen as the ideal quango chairman – someone easily manipulated by his officials but not bright enough to spot it.  The agency was set up in 1996, a black day for Britain’s farmers and rural communities.

The Agency is heavily penetrated by Cabinet Office assets.  As my distinguished VT colleague Ben Fulford has pointed out (hi Ben!) the Cabinet Office has been penetrated by German intelligence at the highest level.

The vulnerable communities of the Somerset Levels were a priority target for the new agency.  Both the DVD and GO2 understand that flooding can be an effective method of destroying low-lying communities, a fact first appreciated in 1940 by Artur Seyss-Inquart, Reichskommisar for the Netherlands, a man both more charming and intelligent than Lord Smith, if I may say so, and probably more loved.  He was very properly executed on October 16th 1946.

Plans were drawn up to scrap dredging machines and silt up the Parrett and the other rivers which drain the levels.  Maintenance on the sluice gates on the rhynes (ditches) was also cut back.

A number of villages were successfully cut off last winter, but this year it has been worse.  Some villages are still cut off, COBRA has been convened and the Army brought in, although it should have been the Navy (they have more boats!).

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The Uselessness of Ministers Exposed

Water, water...and more water
Water, water…and more water

Various politicians made vacuous statements last year about dredging the rivers and stopping the flooding.  These promises were so much gibberish.  The Environment Agency, the Cabinet Office and GO2 are in firm control of dredging policy in Somerset.

The Secretary of State, Somerset County Council and local MPs are mere spectators, not even minor players, whose views, however sensible, can safely be ignored.

Owen Paterson, the Secretary of State, is a nice chap, with sound views on Europe (we once shared a platform at a Tory Conference fringe event).  He is not a man to humiliate.  At the moment he is loyal to Cameron but is bound to realise that the only way to save the Levels from flooding next year is to break up the Environment Agency and enforce major changes at the Cabinet Office.

That can only be done by forcing the Prime Minister out.  Cameron’s supporters are getting twitchy – just look at Fraser Nelson’s near-hysterical oped rant in the Telegraph today.

The problem for the Agency, the Cabinet Office and GO2 is that the need to dredge the rivers was so obvious that even MPs can grasp that this was an act of economic sabotage.  The Agency’s defense – rivers don’t store much water – was so asinine that even journalists can grasp that it had to be an exercise in deception.  Dams store water.  Rivers shift it.

The trick with economic sabotage is to do it so stealthily that only INTELCOM, or people of high intelligence can spot it.  Intelligence officers usually have problems explaining difficult concepts to those with less intellectually demanding occupations, like Cabinet Ministers, climate scientists and chief constables.

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GCHQ Director Forced Out

Sir Lain Lobban
Sir Lain Lobban

Best news from Cheltenham since Bob’s Worth won the Gold Cup last year – Sir Iain Lobban has been forced out, although he won’t actually leave office until November.

The Cabinet Office and Germany are believed to be backing Robert Hannigan, D-G Defence and Intelligence at the Foreign Office, as his successor.  He is not a German spy, but would not push for a major clear-out of senior officials, i.e. he would not threaten GO2 assets in place.

MI5 and the Home Office are backing Charles Farr, director of Security and Counter-Terrorism at the Home Office.  He’s been a failure with respect – he doesn’t get terrorism and is associated with the pointless CONTEST policy – but he’s a nice failure and would do less damage than Bob Hannigan, no offense intended.

There is a dark horse, sensible candidate, a very nice signals general.  He has a first-class brain and does not ask silly questions.  This was demonstrated to me when I sat next to him at a conference and explained that there might be a vacancy coming up at GCHQ, and that the home team needed a good signals man who could get on well with the Americans and not mind the food in the NSA canteen.

The general’s appointment however would be conditional on Sir Jeremy Heywood’s resignation, which in turn is linked with Cameron’s resignation, hence the decision to ask Lobban to stay on until the fall. Cameron won’t be going until after May’s European Parliament elections, in which he is expected to be richly and deservedly humiliated.

The French President, Hollande (this is very confusing, although at least it’s better than having a French president called ‘Belgium’!), confirmed this week that Cameron’s policy of reforming the EU is dead in the water, clearing the way for Cameron’s departure and BREXIT, the much longed-for British exit from the EU.  Hollande despatched Cameron even more brutally than his last girlfriend, although in fairness he didn’t have her guillotined.

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Response to Comments

Thanks to JS for his/her kind words.  Yes, it was a shame about Pete Seeger – great music, shame about the politics.  I entirely agree that Richard Burton should have been given an Oscar.  We never met, although my mother’s family and his were from the same part of the world.  I have occasionally stayed at his favorite hotel, the lovely Coed-y-Mystwr, near the pretty village of Coychurch in South Wales, where I spent some of my early childhood.

I was sorry to see those nice people the Freemasons criticised.  There are a lot of silly conspiracy theories about them.  They tend to be very nice people.  Of course there are police lodges and of course some are used as a cover for corruption, but in Thames Valley the lodge is committed to cleaning up the force and is in fact a valuable conduit for intelligence, especially about GO2 assets in Special Branch at Kidlington and the activities of the Chief Constable.

The lodge will probably be sounded out about the next Chief Constable, although again that is being held over until Cameron and Heywood go.  He will need to be a Mason.

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The Bismarck
The Bismarck

Movie of the Week: Sink the Bismarck (1960)

This is another great story of the sea, based on the book by C S Forester.  It has a stirring soundtrack and a wonderful cast, led by the great Kenneth More, but watch out for Laurence Naismith as the fictional First Sea Lord, Dana Wynter as 2nd Officer Anne Davis and Karel Stepanek as Admiral Lutjens.

The movie repeats the myth that the Bismarck was going after the Atlantic Convoys.  Lutjens’ objective was to break through to Brest, link up with Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, wait for Tirpitz to commission and then combine with the Italian and Vichy French navies to threaten the US Atlantic Fleet in a pincer movement coordinated with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

The plot was influenced by the German spy Lord Mountbatten.  It left out other crucial bits, like Lutjens’ pathetic attempt to leave the doomed battleship in her Arado seaplane, foiled by damage to the catapult inflicted by the tremendous main battery of HMS Prince of Wales, the greatest single contribution to the Allied war effort made by that tragic battlewagon in her all too short life.

At least they got the end right – the Bismarck being sunk by HMS Dorsetshire’s torpedoes.  Well done the Dorsetshire!

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Michael Shrimpton was a barrister from his call to the Bar in London in 1983 until being disbarred in 2019 over a fraudulently obtained conviction. He is a specialist in National Security and Constitutional Law, Strategic Intelligence and Counter-terrorism. He is a former Adjunct Professor of Intelligence Studies at the American Military University. Read Articles from Michael Shrimpton; Read Michael Shrimptons' Full Complete Bio >>>