I strongly recommend this article by Gawain Towler about the unedifying case of traitor Nathan Gill.
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The deep betrayal of Nathan GillNovember 25th, 2025 |
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Mr Gill was paid to speak for a foreign government – this used to be legal, but no longer is, and he did NOT reveal that he was being paid to speak for a foreign government.
In the old days that was called being “an agent of influence” – they were very common in Britain, for example at least two Prime Ministers in my life time (Harold Wilson and Edward Heath) probably (probably – it was never proven in a court of law) received monetary inducements to speak for hostile foreign powers (the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China), with the purpose of influencing British public opinion and policy.
No doubt Mr Gill made excuses to himself about his conduct – “I will never say something I do not actually believe” and “even during the Crimean War Britain never claimed that the Ukraine was not part of Russia”, “we are NOT at war with Russia – so there is no treason in working for them” (and all the other excuses) – but as soon as he took the MONEY he damned himself.
Ironically the Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints (the Mormons) is, I believe, not recognized in Russia (although I could be mistaken about this) – so if Mr Gill was in Russia he would still be going to prison, as Mormons are under an obligation to seek converts – and seeking converts, if you are not part of an officially recognized church, is illegal in Russia.
By the way I write under my own name – and I am indeed the son of Harry Marks and the half brother of “Tony” Marks, so I know a bit about people who were (at one time or another – in my father’s case way back in the early 1930s, before he turned against the Communist Party) de facto pro Moscow.
Ten years in prison?
The people who openly admitted that they “sprung” George Blake (an actual traitor in MI6 – the Special Intelligence Service) did not serve a day in prison, indeed they were found “not guilty” by a leftist jury, even though they admitted their guilt in a book.
It seems that serving the Marxist Soviet Union is popular in Guardian reading circles, but serving Mr Putin (even though he used to be a KGB officer of the Soviet Union) is not popular – hence the harsh sentence.
Personally I believe that “springing” George Blake from prison is a far worse crime than coming out with pro Kremlin propaganda – but that is “what-about-ism”. Mr Gill certainly deserves to go to prison for some time.
As for the general Reform Party attitude – well when they come into office in a local council, the Ukrainian flags go down. But that is because they are against ALL foreign flags – they have nothing in particular against Ukraine.