Is Paul Mason’s parliamentary run a Trojan Horse for British intelligence?
Leaked emails raise serious questions about whether Paul Mason’s run for parliament is, in fact, part of a UK intelligence operation to destroy the anti-war left.
In a series of investigations, The Grayzone has exposed Paul Mason’s collusion with a British intelligence operative to disrupt, undermine and discredit the anti-war, anti-imperialist left in Britain and abroad.
Rather than comment directly on the shocking disclosures, Mason has resorted to boilerplate statements claiming that the leaked emails on which The Grayzone’s reporting is based “may be edited, distorted or fake.” At no point has he offered any detail on what has possibly been maliciously amended and/or forged, or how they were faked.
Mason has made no comment whatsoever on the failure of the bid he declared to run as a member of parliament for the Stretford and Urmston district in Greater Manchester. Just two weeks after he announced his campaign, local Labour party chiefs eliminated him from the race for selection before the shortlisting stage was even complete. Apparently undeterred by his rejection, Mason is reportedly vying for candidacy in Camberwell and Peckham, a culturally diverse, politically radical, working class constituency.
The area where Mason has launched his latest campaign for office happens to be a political base for many of the antiwar activists, progressive politicians and trade unions listed in his now-notorious “mind map” of purported Russian and Chinese influence networks in Britain. And even as his public statements and political ambitions show every sign of being coordinated with – if not outright directed – by a high-ranking British intelligence operative, he still portrays himself as a principled man of the left.
Mason appears to have prepared his McCarthyite map for Andy Pryce, his main channel in the British intelligence services. In mid-March, Mason emailed his Foreign Office “friend” to boast of his handiwork, calling for “co-ordinated pushback” against all the actors named, and offering to talk Pryce through the planned attack in a “quiet place”.
Pryce has privately boasted of his role in compelling YouTube to ban Russian state media output in Britain. It would be entirely unsurprising if WhatsApp parent Meta is likewise subject to direct British security state lobbying to crack down on dissent.
MintPress also appears in the network map provided to Pryce. As such, it is reasonable to ask whether Mason’s maligning of MintPress as a “Putin proxy” played any direct or indirect role in PayPal’s decision this May to terminate the outlet’s account.
PayPal accounts belonging to MacLeod and Mnar Adley, the founder-and-director of MintPress, were also blocked without warning, explanation or recourse. Consortium News, another independent news outlet flagged by Mason for its critical coverage of NATO activities, and considered suspicious by Pryce, has suffered the same fate.
Mason boasts of having “successfully cauterised” Jeremy Corbyn
The leaked emails offer numerous examples of Mason keeping Pryce thoroughly up to date on his left-busting activities. In some instances, Mason appears to have used his journalistic cover to gain access to leftist gatherings or private channels of communication and provide intelligence back to Pryce.
On March 19th, Mason notified Pryce that based on discussions with his Labour party contacts, he was “convinced the entire political class is hopelessly in the dark” about the Ukraine conflict. “They have no sense of urgency about spending, new institutions, reprioritisation,” he wrote, and were “just waiting for it to go away.”
“Message received on this [emphasis added],” Pryce salivated in response. “We are looking to go big on an issue later this week. Will make sure we try to brief a range of parliamentarians.”
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