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The very professional British army run by public school boys, and made up primarily of council house lads from the slummy parts of the UK........has always been detached from British society. Old gossip that it planned coups in the UK has surfaced again. Is it possible that part of the reason for its reduction from a standing force of the total UK armed forces of 414,000 in 1965 to around 150,000 in 2020 is because of coup fears? These changes have taken place under ALL governments of all shades, from so called 'Socialist' Labour governments to nationalist right-wing governments under Thatcher, and Cameron.
Military governments would not have solved the problems of the UK, anymore than civilian governments have thus far under the Labour party or the Conservatives. In fact the military approach to national problem solving would make matters worse, run as it is by elite public school boys from the home counties with a very narrow world view.
The military coups also represented a challenge to the Jewish elite of the UK, who have traditionally exercised power through the security services...especially MI-5, and through the two political parties..Labour and the Conservatives.
Otherwise the UK is a rich successful country, with a PPP per capita income of $36,000, and where the economy has grown 5 fold in real terms since the 1950's to 2013. Its the 8th largest economy in the world. In 1950 the GDP was $37 billion, it is now worth $2,250 billion. The economy has grown steadily under the stewardship of both labour and Conservative governments. There was no Thatcher miracle....just media and elite perception.
But FEAR and PERCEPTION along with elite PARANOIA play their role. The MI-5 created bogus bogey of KGB Communist agents running the Labour Party must have pressed a few buttons in the elite circles. Along with IMMIGRATION from the Commonwealth, pushed and encouraged by the Jewish elite as it has been in the USA, and the relative declining power of the UK as a former Super Power relegated to division 2 as a middle ranking power also must have been grim for elite circles used to gun boat diplomacy, and shoving the British nose into every nook and cranny of the world...as it was done in the glorious halcyon days of the British Empire in the 18th and 19th century.
But history moves on, and the UK is a very successful rich country. With all its $2.2 trillion wealth some components of it are still not happy. It will never be.
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Did UK face military coups in 1960’s-70’s?
By Presstv.com
Coups d'état are
generally headline grabbers and considered peculiarities of the less
developed nations in the west, including in Britain, yet western media
and governments do not refer to some of them as coups and choose
complete silence about others. That is what happened about the alleged
1960’s and 1970’s coups in the UK, which is touted as the mother of all
parliamentary democracies in the world.
BBC examined parts of the evidence related to plots to overthrow former British Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson in military coups exactly thirty years after his shock resignation on March 16, 1976, in a documentary named “Plot Against Harold Wilson”.
The documentary presented evidence in the form of interview with other senior figures of the time that Wilson was right to fear military coups by MI5 and senior military officers though it followed the line of legitimate concerns that Wilson was a Soviet spy to justify the spy agency’ plan.
Barrie Penrose, one of the journalists, whose evidence was used to make the documentary, wrote in an article for a Radio Times March 2006 edition that "Wilson spoke darkly of two military coups which he said had been planned to overthrow his government in the late 1960s and in the mid 1970s.”
Penrose, who conducted interviews with Wilson after his resignation in 1976 and secretly recorded them with the help of a colleague Roger Courtiour, added that "both were said to involve high-ranking elements in the British army, eager to see the back of Labour governments. Both involved a member of the Royal Family - Prince Louis Mountbatten”.
Among the interviews in the documentary the one by Lord Hunt, who was Cabinet Secretary between 1973 and 1979 and conducted an inquiry into Wilson’s concerns that MI5 was bugging the Prime Minister’s office, was especially revealing.
Hunt confirmed to the producers of the program that the secret service was indeed taking steps against Wilson’s government.
Hunt, however, refused to accept the idea of a coup claiming the MI5 were acting under the suspicion that Wilson is a Soviet spy.
But the documentary tabled a web of interconnected conspiracies to remove Wilson from government using military power to counter his claim.
According to the coup feature, the Earl of Cromartie and a group of Scottish aristocrats with SAS connections planned to set up a government under Lord Mountbatten in 1965.
The following year, Mountbatten was involved in discussion with another group of conspirators who wanted to replace Wilson. Daily Mirror press baron Lord Cecil King planned what he called an emergency government or national government.
Mountbatten, who was the last viceroy of India and chief of defense staff from 1959 to 1965, was also involved with the private armies that various ex-military men, including General Sir Walter Walker, NATO Commander of Northern Europe in 1969-72, and Major Alexander Greenwood, were setting up in the mid-1970s.
Meanwhile, MI5 was leading an operation codenamed “Clockwork Orange” to defame Wilson as a Soviet spy and facilitate a military coup.
Collin Wallace, a Ministry of Defense press officer at the time, was framed and imprisoned for manslaughter when he tried to expose the operation while the British government banned the publication of memoirs by Peter Wright, the former assistant director of MI5, in 1986 apparently over fears that he could expose the coup attempts.
The plots to remove Wilson in military coups especially in the mid 1970’s was also confirmed to the producers of the documentary by Lord Chalfont, who was a Labour defense minister and Foreign Office minister.
“If you’re talking about people who had a serious idea of a military coup, yes, they would be fairly senior people,” he said.
However, the documentary did not answer questions on what happened after Wilson resigned in 1976 and whether all those plotting coups suddenly changed minds after his colleague James Callaghan took over as Prime Minister.
It only left one speculating that Margaret Thatcher and her top aides were the real force behind the conspiracies as what she later described as the “enemy within” in reference to rebellious workers was identical to view of coup plotter of the 1970’s.
Meanwhile, at least one of the people admitting to discussing a coup with senior officers, former intelligence officer Brian Crozier, was among her advisers.
Later it emerged that Crozier, who drafted a new constitution for former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, was invited several times by different members of the Army’s top brass to lecture them on current problems where he identified a kind of “malaise” within the armed forces.
He later was glad to lecture the Army Staff College at Camberley about the possibility of a military intervention against “the enemy” - by which he meant the government.
He later got a letter from the then head of the college General Sir Hugh Beach telling him that “action which armed forces might be justified in taking, in certain circumstances, is in the forefront of my mind at the moment 'and I do hope we may have the chance of carrying the debate a stage further".
Back in 2006, Penrose concluded his Radio Times article saying that his interviews with Wilson convinced him that Britain was closer to a “military government” at the time “than we’d ever be content to think”.
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