Anonymous ID: 4f7f19 July 8, 2020, 11:55 a.m. No.9896296   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6370 >>6398 >>6797 >>7418 >>5613 >>6827 >>2267 >>3498

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8500033/Leviathans-British-establishment-labelled-Chinas-useful-idiots.html

 

They are persons of considerable influence – City grandees, royal representatives and major charity heads.

 

Among them are a life peer and three knights of the realm.

 

Another was a top Whitehall mandarin. All have impeccable CVs, barring one scandal.

 

The British individuals gathered up by the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei to work for the company over the years could not be of higher calibre.

 

Among the four non-executive board members of Huawei UK are the former boss of the blue-chip energy firm BP; the Queen’s representative in London; the former chairman of our own telecoms leviathan BT; and a man who spent five years in charge of UK Trade & Investment, the Government department which promotes exports and attracts foreign investments.

 

They are the cream of the British Establishment and could hardly have been better chosen to provide a ‘respectable’ face for Huawei.

 

But it is not just the board where Britons pull levers in the company.

 

The firm’s head of global security was once the Government’s chief information officer and centrally involved in its technology strategy.

 

Patience Wheatcroft, a former Fleet Street editor who had once sat on Huawei¿s UK advisory board

Another former adviser happens to have been the Lib Dems’ spokesman for the digital economy.

 

Their involvement in the firm is proof of the way Huawei has managed to woo – and win – the influential Britons with expertise in its key areas of interest.

 

But now, there are calls for the four non-executive board members to cut their ties with the firm, while British employees not on the board are under scrutiny.

 

The growing outcry over Huawei comes after bombshell claims that the company has been involved in spying and covert manipulation – claims that it strongly denies.

 

As revealed by the Mail yesterday, a dossier compiled by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele and others alleges some of these influential Britons – but not all –were targeted by the Chinese Communist Party, through Huawei.

 

The intention was to turn them into either ‘useful idiots’ or ‘full-time agents

Anonymous ID: 4f7f19 July 10, 2020, 2:47 a.m. No.9913564   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6331 >>2267 >>3498

A fourth top civil servant has quit in the space of just five months as a promised Whitehall overhaul by Dominic Cummings, the Prime Minister's chief adviser, appeared to be gaining momentum.

 

Sir Richard Heaton, the permanent secretary at the Ministry of Justice, said he was standing down in the next few weeks – days after saying reports of his departure were "speculation".

 

News of Sir Richard's departure came after Sir Mark Sedwill, the Cabinet secretary, said last week that he would be quitting in September, pocketing a £250,000 pay-off in compensation.

 

Last month, Sir Simon McDonald said he would step down as permanent secretary of the Foreign and …….

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/07/09/fourth-top-civil-servant-quits-five-months-dominic-cummings/