Poor Joani Reid, MP -the trials and tribulations of an alleged spy’s wife

On a two-day visit to Faslane as a member of the Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme, which gives parliamentarians experience of the UK military, Joani Reid, the MP for East Kilbride and Strathaven, whose Grandfather, Jimmy Reid was a card carrying Member of the UK Communist Party…
was given a guided tour of two submarines as part of the visit, as well as meeting officers. An MP on the visit said that Reid had been “extremely drunk” and was “all over” a senior naval officer, at one stage a female officer involved in organising the trip said it was time the MP went to her bed and was sworn at by Reid.

Some time after there were allegations of an inappropriate relationship involving Reid and a Captain of a nuclear submarine based at Faslane. They were investigated and the captain who is married was not subjected to disciplinary action since he had not broken any military rules.

It was revealed that the captain and Reid had exchanged flirtatious messages and the action was taken to mitigate any blackmail risk. Reid rejected the statement that the messages were flirtatious and there was no physical relationship between them.

Follow up

Fresh security checks were carried out after Reid’s husband was arrested under the UK National Security Act on suspicion of assisting China’s foreign intelligence service, following which the Captain of one of Britain’s nuclear-armed submarines stepped back from his role after being investigated over his relationship with Joani Reid.

Voluntary Liquidation

Reid said she had no knowledge of her husband’s business activities but placed her company into voluntary liquidation after recording a huge profit in 2023 on which she paid just 10% tax on £379,953.46 of income. What services was Reid providing that earned well over £300k profit in a single year?