"MI5 should recruit from Mumsnet..."

[KateMumsnet]

Hello all

There's a rather fabulous story in the news today, which suggests that the security services could benefit from MNers' skills. What do you think - time for us to make a [false beard] emoticon?

I thought this paragraph was particularly relevant ( and not just related to spying...)

Ms Blears said: “If all intelligence professionals are cut from the same cloth – sharing similar backgrounds and similar characteristics - then they are likely to share "unacknowledged biases" that will circumscribe both the definition of problems and the search for solutions.”

Every passing thought or coded exchanges ??

Come to think of it , some of the voluntary work I undertook would have benefited MI5, bypassing the data protection act.

I'm surprised the Telegraph can't spell 'parliamentary'

I wonder what hazels nn is?

Well I'm not signing up.

I've watched Spooks.

Everybody I get attached to dies a horrible death.

Leesen carefully, I will only say theese wernce...

I've watched Spooks. Can I be Roz?

Perhaps, as was said, they already do.

"Am I being Treasonable"

I love this

MNers with a predilection for inventing stories and duping people? Shurely not. No fantasist Walter Mitty types here at all.

I'd love to be a spy. Nobody'd expect it in my home-knitted tatty jumper and bedraggled hat. I look like I have no idea what's going on around me. I'd slip right under the radar.

I think they already do.

They post the troll threads and then they approach the posters who go

analythical skillz
innit?

LVCIWSTOO I might not be up to the job - this is about the level of my discretion

every passing thought , OR....is that just what we want you to think?

Waiting I am Ros!

The first part of the application form is a LOT of fun. I used to fill it out when I was procrastinating from essays as a student.

Am I Being Treasonable

I may have to snog you for that, JustForBlog.

They'd need your cooperation to find the best candidates MNHQ i.e. those of us who change our usernames regularly to avoid leaving a trail

Take the challenge...

www.mi5.gov.uk/careers/investigative-challenge.aspx

I note that GCHQ, MI5 etc are not seeking spies via other parenting networks. The security services don't like ur tickers n glitter, hun. Hugs x.

It's cos everyone knows parents have eyes in the backs of their heads

We could do information drops inside pom bear packets...

I KNEW all those Homeland threads I started weren't for nothing.

Marks place without leaving a trace of having been here

< vanishes >

I scored 6 on that test