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Curious how he's forgot all about Cambridge Analitica which was paid with American money ...
Not to mention the very local, very British (mainly English, even) assholes that pushed for Leave as well as the (British and American) billionaires whose newspapers in Britain pushed for it.
Don't get me wrong: I'm pretty sure Russia did try. China too. And then of course there's Israel.
It's just that in my experience living in Britain (including during, before and after the Leave Referendum) if you're really looking for foreigners to blame it's America which seems to interfere the most in British politics, by far, though even they don't have the level of influence that the local "elites" have.
So it's funny seeing Andy whitewashing the likes of Murdoch and the Rothermere family, most of the Tory party, as well as American money and Israel-funded Tory-aligned British Jewish Associations (though the latter were much more visible after Brexit during the attempt at moving the Labour Party back to it's Leftwing roots with Corbyn).
it's all useful idiots. Brexit used to be a marginal thing and then it wasn't and the way it stopped being marginal is questionable. you don't really need real assets to do much when you can just give a little nudge to some useful idiots and make their yapping louder and then you just keep the volume until you get the desired result. russians do it all the time.
As I see it (having been there since before 2008) Brexit was very much a natural consequence of how the 2008 Crash was handled, especially of the Austerity that was used to pay for saving the banks and the wealth of large Asset owners.
After a while of that and as people started getting restless, the solution found by the British elites who fucked it all up was "blame the foreigners", and that was mainly immigrants (including EU immigrants) and the EU itself (it was said that the "straight jacked" of EU rules was stopping Britain from the growth that the country would get if it deregulated and aligned even more with America).
Brexit was born and bloomed in a field plowed, fertilized and sowed by British interests and actively pushed by people who wanted Britain to have the hardest of Neoliberalism, aligned with the US not with the EU (for example, to allow things like the infamous "bleached chicken").
It's the adding of the votes of the desperate people who lost faith in mainstream politics to the votes of the useful idiots that creates the voting majorities for things like Brexit and far-right populists in government (both the likes of Boris Johnson in Britain and Trump in the White House).
I think this is spot on. Russian propaganda can pull on a thread but that thread has to exist in the first place.
In both the UK and US case, you got a bunch of upset people scratching their heads wondering where all the fuckin money went. And the answer is generally the same in both cases.
and then it turns out things don't magically get better
Well, yeah, all that shit was anchored on some massive Nationalistic Delusions Of Grandeur to the point that the Tories were before the Referendum pushing Leave with the idea that "When we leave the EU will give us the same rights as an EU member but without the obligations such as Freedom Of Movement for people from the EU to come here".
Lo and behold in the real world rather than fantasy la-la-empire things weren't at all like that, just like many like me (not necessarily immigrants in Britain, rather people who favored Remain) predicted again and again.
Partly the reason why I'm so pissed of at the "Blame Russia" distraction that pops up once every couple of years when a British politician wants to distract the plebes from some fuckup or other, is that this crap dovetails with the insane Nationalistic Delusions Of Grandeur of the place (on one side, the message is that Britain is so important that Russia was obsessed by it rather than, you know, doing their usual shit same as they would for France or Germany if the conditions were right, on the other it exonerates Britons, British Culture and British Politics, thus maintaining the far too common idea there that they're all inherently better than the rest of Europe) and part is because it's letting free of consequences serious assholes who even before the Referendum would use "blame the EU" as a get out of jail free card for the consequences of their own policies and even more so those who were hard at work during the Referendum swindling the useful idiots and the (thanks to almost a decade of Austerity) desperate to vote Leave and who thus have most of the blame for that shit show, like Boris Johnson, Murdoch and the Rothermere family.
well, it's not like British political class lost the plot overnight during the whole Brexit shebang. Its been like that little by little since like late 60s maybe mid 70s. Brexit was more like cherry on the pie at that point and everything past that is frosting.
"It wasn't Russia despite all the evidence. it was actually your own fault"
Fuck you, you Russian fucking hack.
Right. It was the Russians who went out and voted, then?
Sure mate, it's wasn't the Brits that did it to themselves, it was foreigners.
Fucking foreigners, always pulling Great Britain and its Superior People and Superior Culture down from it's hollowed state of Greatness.
It if wasn't for foreigners, Britain would still be an Empire.
I don't even need to change a word to rebut your weak-ass attempt at propaganda.
“It wasn’t Russia despite all the evidence. it was actually your own fault”
Fuck you, you Russian fucking hack.
Sure mate, your nation is a great and very important nation and its people and culture are superior to the rest, which is why foreigners want so much to bring Britain down from it's greatness and it couldn't possibly be Britons having most of the blame as "such things don't happen here" and definitely it couldn't possibly be the product of the British elites blaming the EU for every shit that happened there for decades before Brexit and then pillaging the country like crazy in the aftermath of the 2008 Crash, especially during the Austerity period all the while blaming the EU and immigrants.
The only thing that makes sense is that Russia is entirely responsible for what Britons did in Britain and anybody who doesn't totally agree with that and who doesn't, for good measure, immediately starts an impromptu rendition of "God save the King", is a "Russian fucking hack".
Dude you're a Russian shill. I literally don't give a shit what your opinion is. Not even going to read it to be totally honest.
As far as I'm concerned, I hope you catch something untreatable and the only people who can save you are Western doctors...and then we just don't.
lmao
Are the Russians in the room with us now?
Not as many, since the Ukrainians bombed the data center hosting them, comrade.
Russia was one of the biggest supporter, using some outfit in Northern Ireland. That's actually old news. It is public knowledge for ages, but now it if officially confirmed.
Sure mate, I must just have imagined the daily pro-Leave articles in the Murdoch and Rothermere owned newspapers pushing for Leave and peddling anti-imigration and anti-EU bollocks during Leave Referendum, not to mention the shit coming out of the mouths of the likes of Boris Johnson who was constantly on TV.
Oh, they have been a good part of it. But a lot of advertising over several different channels had already been identified to be coming from the same sources. This has been known even during the referendum. The source was semi-identified shortly after as Russian.
Remember the fishing boats doing a procession up the River Thames? That was one of them. The money they got for showing up was paid out of this fund. That Murdoch had a field day spreading the "news" was just a normal development.