"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?

[AWholeLottaNosy]

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.”

[iseenodust]

Every passing thought or coded exchanges ??

[JoanHickson]

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

[RustyBear]

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

[TwatFaceBitch]

I wonder what hazels nn is?

[HareRayZing]

Well I'm not signing up.

I've watched Spooks.

Everybody I get attached to dies a horrible death.

[Plonkysaurus]

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

[Waitingonasunnyday]

I've watched Spooks. Can I be Roz?

[Seeker33]

Perhaps, as was said, they already do.

[NakedFamilyFightClub]

"Am I being Treasonable"

I love this

[Showy]

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.

[OttiliaVonBCup]

I think they already do.

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

analythical skillz
innit?

[adarkwhisperinthewoodwasheard]

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

[CaTsMaMmA]

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

[HermioneWeasley]

Waiting I am Ros!

[CaulkheadUpNorth]

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.

[PausingFlatly]

Am I Being Treasonable

I may have to snog you for that, JustForBlog.

[fitbitreject]

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

[bobs123]

Take the challenge...

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

[MadeInChorley]

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.

[thatwouldbeanecumenicalmatter]

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

[HaveTeaWillSurvive]

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

[Hassled]

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

[JugglingFromHereToThere]

Marks place without leaving a trace of having been here

< vanishes >

[Pantone363]

I scored 6 on that test