Of course the MOA would have happened regardless of which party was in power in the UK, they began drafting that even before Caroline as a result of the clauses in the Strasbourg Treaty which they were keen to ratify. The MOA was drafted by the civil servant Director of Radio Services, Peter Lillicrap, started under PMG Reginald Bevin in the Conservative government prior to Wilson. 
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“Aside from his vendetta against Harold Wilson”... Ronan missed an opportunity there since Harold had a well documented near-vendetta against the BBC, especially around the time of the March 1966 general election, and there had already been the UK Gov cooperation with Project Atlanta. But the Radio City incident in June 1966 closed that opportunity and what followed was inevitable.
It’s around-about March 1973 and I am walking southwards along the east side of the Tweede Binnenhaven in Scheveningen, heading for the Trip Tender to go back out to the Mebo II.
I noticed some activity on one of the Oceaan VII type sport-fishing boats that Caroline used as tenders, as credit allowed. Low and behold there is Ronan on deck. So he asks me something along the lines of what we on RNI thought of Caroline coming back. And I reply something along the lines that as far as I was concerned it was more the merrier. To which Ronan replies, and these are his actual words, “That is very socialist of you”! Previous Message
Ronan's M.O followed a repetitive path to get others to invest and first to take a cut from that sum and put it in a safe place such as Lichtenstein. Then he would spend the investors money in a manner of his choosing.
He wanted the Ross to be called ' Imagine ' in honour of John Lennon but this did not happen.
He wanted the ship to be painted pink as this is the colour of healing. The crew rebelled and painted it signal red.
He wanted a Gold music format but the crew ignored that and reverted to album music.
He wanted to use 558 and Peter C put it on 319.
Mostly he said that Caroline could not just 'come back' , it had to be bigger and better than before. The mast was in part built to suit 558 but also to be visually impressive. It surely was impressive and then it fell down and put the station out of business. Well done.
Ronan always ( aside from his vendetta against Harold Wilson ) kept away from politics and politically motivated gestures. He wanted to fly under the radar and not make waves.
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On another forum, someone has compared The Ross's original oversized 300ft mast, to being symbolic of Ronan's finger - up to the British establishment.
Do you think there was any truth in that, Peter? (& others)
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Ronan's middle finger ! - Freddie Archer 28/8/2023, 10:11:41
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