It’s worth reading Councillor Emma Dent Coad’s recent article in which she sets out the extent of state infiltration, spying and sabotage in our community during and since the Grenfell Tower fire.

National

EDC’s list of abusers includes the British government itself. During that initial post-fire period, it was the Theresa May Conservative administration. But the deployment of several facets of state power to reach into North Kensington as its people reeled in shock suggests that these were the actions of the permanent state, the civil service that remains in place whichever political faction wins a general election.

Dent Coad explains that the British state was so anxious that the Grenfell atrocity might trigger unrest or even revolution that MI5 ‘friendlies’ were deployed to North Kensington. In her article, the former MP tells us that a senior government figure confirmed her suspicion that she was being followed by MI5 operative. MI stands for Military Intelligence.

As well as using military intelligence to shadow the MP, the May government set its propaganda machine on EDC as she campaigned for housing justice in the aftermath of the fire. In November 2017, a government official planted negative stories in the media, which appeared at the exact moment Dent Coad hosted the parliamentary launch event of her report on housing.

Charles Branigan, a press officer for Theresa May, later bragged that he had done “the Emma Dent Coad stuff.” His “stuff” included hatchet jobs on the MP in the Daily Mail, The Sun and Guido Fawkes.

Branigan sat on the advisory board of UK Policy Group, a consultancy providing “research dossiers” (a euphemism for lies and abuse) on political “opponents” (a euphemism for those interested in truth and justice).

EDC notes the role of the literal dustbin-scavenging gutter press in attempting to divert public conversation away from who was responsible for the epic crime at Grenfell Tower. This propaganda was sometimes produced in partnership with political figures who were terrified of potential social unrest. Victoria Borwick, defeated by Dent Coad in the general election days before the fire, told the Evening Standard that the new MP was partly responsible for the atrocity, and that armed police were needed to subdue the people of North Kensington.

The reality missed by Borwick was that we were supporting each other with humanitarian care that would have otherwise been absent.

In her article, Dent Coad sets out other categories of saboteur to have plagued North Ken since June 14^th 2017:

‘Missionaries’ – those who wanted to impose their views;

‘Agitators’ – We’ll have more about North Ken’s agitator-in-chief another time;

‘Infiltrators’ – including from the ranks of the police.

Local

At the Spycops Inquiry last week, former North Kensington Community Development worker Joe Batty described his anguish at not being able to openly tell local residents that “the police will be sitting in your meetings, recording the things you do and invading your personal life.”

The extent of the co-ordination across the state-government-media-police-spy complex since Grenfell is difficult to quantify. As is the relationship of Kensington & Chelsea Council to the national-level subversion of local democracy and freedoms. However, Emma Dent Coad’s article makes it clear that the council played its part. She cites receiving threatening letters from a senior Tory councillor after she raised the issue of racism by council officials towards bereaved and survivors. After speaking about Grenfell and racism in parliament in 2019 – speech in parliament is protected by parliamentary privilege so MPs don’t have to worry about legal harassment – EDC says the council’s legal team demanded evidence of her claims.

Dent Coad explains that this local authority overreach made her curious about what they had been saying and doing in the period after the fire. After submitting a Subject Access Request for the information, she waited a year for the results only to receive 13 pages of redacted emails between councillors and officers. What are they hiding?

Speaking of hiding behind redactions, it is worth noting the link between Emma Dent Coad’s fate as a Labour politician and the Jeffrey Epstein network. Dent Coad remained a Labour politician following defeat in the 2019 general election until 2022 when she was barred from being the party’s Kensington candidacy for patently ridiculous reasons. Candidate selection was overseen by the disgraced former Chief-of-Staff of Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney as he set about purging Labour of socialists and potential anti-war voices.

Given the central role played by McSweeney’s political guru, Peter Mandelson, in the takeover of Labour, it is possible that Mandelson himself decided that Dent Coad should be stripped of her candidacy. Whether it was McSweeney, Mandelson or one of their padawans like Israel lobbyist Luke Akehurst, it represents another reach into Kensington by undemocratic forces. Ultimately these forces serve the Epstein class, a subversive shadow global government that appears to have practised Satanic rituals and unspeakable crimes against children in pursuit of a world order based around ideas of ethno-supremacy and human expendability.

It is definitely worth reading Emma Dent Coad’s Spies and Lies article and contemplating how those who serve power do so by suppressing us.

by Tom Charles @tomhcharles @urbandandyldn

Cover image: Screenshot of RBKC’s SAR request information provided to Councillor Emma Dent Coad