In books and in articles, I have written that the SNP has been infiltrated by MI5 and Special Branch, and that this infiltration has been a fact since the party was little more than a talking-shop on the fringes of Scottish politics. I have argued that British State infiltration of the SNP stepped-up significantly from 1999, when the party went from having just six MPs at Westminster to forming the official opposition in the newly-created Scottish Parliament, with 35 MSPs.
With its massive increase in elected representatives, and associated staff-members, the SNP was suddenly seen as a potential future government of Scotland, which would mean it could be in a position to actually break-up the British State. Far from a talking-shop fringe party, the SNP was now seen as a real threat. Accordingly, British State security services stepped-up their infiltration of the party.
Prior to 1999, MI5 and Special Branch assets in the SNP were relatively low-level members. Their roles were to listen to party conversations and pass anything of interest to their British State contacts. However, with the advancement of the SNP at the '99 election, greater emphasis was placed by British State forces into placing actual agents into the party. The difference between an asset and an agent is that the latter is placed into an organisation with clear instructions on what they should seek to achieve on behalf of the British State. Assets continued to simply listen to conversations and pass information to their contacts.
In an article I wrote in August 2023, I argued that the difference between British State infiltrators of the SNP in 1999 and today, is that MI5 and Special Branch agents have, over the intervening years, advanced within the party. They are no longer relatively low-level members. Some have reached such elevated positions within the SNP that they are able to influence party policy and direction. For the avoidance of doubt, some British State agents have held, and some still hold, positions within the leadership of the SNP, both elected members and unelected advisors.
I have argued that influence of British State agents within the SNP can be seen in the party's reluctance to actually deliver on the series of mandates for independence provided by the people of Scotland at election-after-election. Promoting policies that are hugely unpopular with the public, such as Gender Self-Identification and allowing male sex-offenders into female prisons and safe spaces, has resulted in huge swathes of the public finding the SNP to be out-of-touch and unelectable. These are not the actions of a political party that actually seeks to garner public support and deliver independence for Scotland.
My article in August 2023 was carried by two pro-independence websites: 'Barrhead Boy', run by Roddy MacLeod who hosts the excellent 'Through A Scottish Prism' show, broadcast weekly on YouTube; and the 'Grouse Beater' site, run by one of Scotland's most thoughtful and articulate writers, Gareth Wardell.
Within days of the article appearing it had been picked-up by almost every British nationalist newspaper, and a far-right English broadcaster. All attacked the content of the article, and some attempted to rubbish me personally. One 'Tame Jock', writing for the right-wing, Tory-supporting Times, used his opinion column to add to what certainly appeared to be a co-ordinated attack. What I found significant about the articles carried by the British nationalist newspapers, was that they were virtually identical, some almost word-for-word. I can remember the days when plagiarism was a sackable offence in journalism, but, apparently, not any more. Different journalists, apparently working independently, had remarkably managed to write virtually the same story. I saw five newspapers carrying the story, and I was told there were more. It was almost as if a 'central organisation' had provided the British nationalist media-outlets with a story to use, and instructed them to use it. Now, which 'central organisation' could co-ordinate and pull-off such media manipulation, and which 'central organisation' would want to rubbish an article discussing the extent of British State infiltration of the SNP?
With stories attacking my article being carried extensively in the British nationalist media, it was inevitable that my social media also went a bit crazy. On Twitter/X, a series of posters – most with bios bedecked in British Union flags - took their lead from the British State's paid propagandists in the so-called 'mainstream media'. I found blocking them was immensely cathartic.
There were, though, a number of Twitter posters who posed the same question, which, on the face of it, might seem reasonable. It went along the lines of: 'So, who are the British spies in the SNP? Name names'.
I say the question might seem reasonable, but there is a major problem in directly answering it. I know several members of the SNP who work for the British State. I could name them. However, as I said in response to one of the Twitter posters who posed the question, “I quite like being alive,” and suggested they check-out Willie McRae.
I wasn't being entirely serious. For the record, I don't believe I am important enough for the British State to 'take me out'. Having said that, Willie McRae was killed, almost certainly by agents of the British State, in 1985. McRae, a prominent member of the SNP, had information that could have exposed more than one issue the British State did not want to be made public. Rather than go into more detail here, I suggest anyone interested in what actually happened to Willie McRae should read the book 'Firebrand' by Ron Culley (available from Amazon Books). The point I was making is that the British State does have a history of 'dealing with' anyone who makes public information they would rather you didn't know.
It is also the case that revealing the names of British State agents within the SNP would serve little purpose at this time. As I have previously said, the British State has played a blinder: the SNP is now so compromised and controlled by agents of MI5 and Special Branch that the party no longer represents a threat to the British State. The SNP has been destroyed as an electoral threat. It faces a significant reverse of fortunes at next year's UK Election. It could be that the British State will consider its job is done with regards to the SNP.
Finally, to those SNP loyalists who have argued that the party is not infiltrated and controlled by the British State: you do realise that your argument means the SNP has turned itself into an unelectable, non-threat to the British State through nothing more than colossal incompetence? Does that make you feel better about those in leadership roles within the party?
NOTES
My life-story is told in my first book - Was It Something I Said? - including my time in politics and what actually happened during my time in the SNP Whips Office, and as a Member of the Scottish Parliament. My two other books, Outspoken - Part One and Outspoken - Part Two, take us through the eventful last ten-years of Scottish and UK politics, from the Independence Referendum to the present day and the British State capture of the SNP. All three are available from Amazon Books. If you don’t want to buy from Amazon, they are also available from Lulu Publishing.
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