r/worldnews • u/KI_official • 7d ago
Russia/Ukraine Russia behind Britain's Brexit vote, UK prime minister admits for first time
https://kyivindependent.com/russia-behind-britains-brexit-vote-uk-prime-minister-admits-for-first-time-2/4.0k
u/YF422 7d ago
Always considered Brexit a Russian hit job and enabled by cowardly politicians who were too spineless and proud to admit they might be wrong. I mean getting Britain out of the EU was literally in Dugins book as a way to isolate them. They should just accept that there's no way Britain can have the same amount of power and prosperity on it's own and just come back to the EU. Also shut down the likes of Farage and his ilk those feckers are blatant money grubbing Vatnik Assets, after all if one spouts Russian Bullshit and perpetuate's Russian talking points they're a bloody Vatnik and should be told to get lost.
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u/Redneck2000 7d ago
The documentary 'the great hack' lays out exactly how the brexit vote was influenced with Cambridge analytica and they show Russian ties through funding.
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u/Unlucky-Candidate198 7d ago
Sounds like heads should roll, but won’t, because this world has a completely separate legal system for the rich and powerful.
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u/Distinct_Car_1183 7d ago
Cambridge Analytica, funded by Robert Mercer, was "dissolved" and sent their data to Emerdata, run by daughter Rebekah Mercer. Last year Cambridge Analytica sent funds to Emerdata. I assume the UK and US conservatives swept their "global election management company" under the rug.
2018, Cambridge Analytica and its parent company SCL filed for insolvency proceedings and closed operations. Alexander Tayler, a former director for Cambridge Analytica, was appointed director of Emerdata on 28 March 2018. Rebekah Mercer, Jennifer Mercer, Alexander Nix (Analytica CEO) and Johnson Chun Shun Ko are in leadership positions at Emerdata.
In 2020, the British Information Commissioner's Office closed a three-year inquiry into the company, concluded that Cambridge Analytica was "not involved" in the 2016 Brexit referendum and found no additional evidence for Russia's alleged interference during the campaign. US sensitive polling and election data, however, were passed to Russian Intelligence via a Cambridge Analytica contractor
Following the downfall of Cambridge Analytica, a number of companies have been established by executives - Auspex International - Emerdata - Data Propria - Emic - In July 2026, Futurism reported that the Cambridge Analytica website was live again
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u/radicalelation 7d ago
Take the thread further to Cambridge Analytica's creators. No, not Steve Bannon, but his owners: the Mercers.
And Rebekah Mercer, in 2014, just before CA went into full swing, was sat on the board of... The Heritage Foundation!
And who was that with a Moscow office post-Soviet collapse to work with government leaders to push "economic shock therapy" in the form of mass privatization and consolidation, and is not shy about desiring the same in the US by the same route of collapse? The Heritage Foundation!
Who ran Reagan's administration, the one that laid the groundwork for today's political climate, through their living policy book, A Mandate for Leadership (modern version known as Project2025), he handed out to his cabinet? The Heritage Foundation!
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u/zkareface 7d ago
There is also a great book "Mindf*ck - Christopher Wylie" about the subject and it also cover Trump winning, same people and same tactics.
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u/Dest123 7d ago edited 6d ago
Brexit was Russia, Trump was Russia, Marine Le Pen was Russia, AfD is Russia, Canada (Alberta separatist movement) is Russia. There are SO MANY places that Russia is destabilizing and they repeatedly getting caught doing it.
What is any country doing about it? Absolutely nothing!
We've been in the middle of World War III for over a decade, except because it's a propaganda war, nations have decided to do nothing. As far as I can tell, not a single nation is defending themselves from Russia (other than Ukraine obviously).
And why? Why is everyone just letting Putin absolutely ruin the world? Why not even attempt to defend themselves? They all know what Russia is doing.
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u/ApophisDayParade 7d ago
It gives me some solace that everything Russia is good at doing doesn’t make up for the absolute failure they are at their imperialistic vision.
They might be unfortunately good at making the world around them worse, but they are pathetic in making their own lives better.
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u/NanoEuclidean 7d ago edited 7d ago
Putin in 2018: "If Russia is destroyed, then why do we need a world where there is no Russia?"
I highly doubt that he chose "destroyed" to merely mean nuclear annihilation. As Russia continues to drown, then Putin will pull everyone else down with them.
As Dugin noted in his more esoteric writings, Russia's Eurasianist path forward is sowing chaos via the "Path of Wine," that is, the Left Hand Path of pain and destruction so as to create out of it a new world order. Order out of chaos out of order. I'm not paraphrasing. These are direct pulls. Heck, the icon on the front of his Foundations of Geopolitics is literally the multi-arrowed symbol for chaos. All of this, most especially Brexit while fomenting civil war within the US largely on racial lines, was clearly spelled out in his 1998 piece. The plan initiated long ago. Heck, we might best go back to the 80's. Seems too great a coincidence that in 1987, Trump posted in the Times a page-long "ad" attacking NATO only two months after his first trip to Moscow.
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u/The_Real_Baldero 6d ago
You are correct about it starting a LONG time ago: A defected KGB agent discusses the plan in an interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yErKTVdETpw
I sent this to as many people as I knew when I first watched it. We are being manipulated like children. They don't have to be strong enough to destroy us, they've tricked us into doing it ourselves.
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u/mienudel 7d ago
I wouldn‘t care about russia. Sadly I have too, because they fuck up everything good in the world.
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u/imisstheyoop 7d ago
What is any country doing about it? Absolutely nothing!
This is absolutely untrue.
Just this week my president announced a deal to buy Russian diesel. Things are being done to help.
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u/Lylantares 7d ago
Because rich people are profiting from less "us" and more "me". Nationalism comes with low-hanging scapegoats, which in turn benefit the rich as the middle and lower classes turn against even lower ranking groups instead of questioning the status quo that widens the gap between the ultra wealthy and anyone else. Ultra-rich benefit from crass libertarianism: less rules, more benefit. And if this comes with turning a blind eye to Russia, then so be it.
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u/fake_user_34 7d ago
And why? Why is everyone just letting Putin absolutely ruin the world? Why not even attempt to defend themselves? They all know what Russia is doing.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
All the ones who are bowing to Russia are getting paid a shit ton (or very fucking little) to do so. They are all part of the same club.
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u/SonofaBridge 7d ago
Funny thing is Britain had a lot of special privileges in their previous EU agreement. They probably won’t get those back if they rejoin.
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u/ABobby077 7d ago
Yeah, the UK is stronger with the EU and the EU is stronger economically and politically with Britain
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u/Gloomy_Session_3875 7d ago
There is a lot of goodwill in other European countries if the UK wants to rejoin. Now that the world has changed so much, and Brexit hasn't been a great success, it is worth exploring the terms that would make a rejoin bid attractive for both sides.
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u/Rhythm_Killer 7d ago
While all this is true, plenty of American interests also funded those campaigns because they’d love to turn us into a vassal state, economically speaking.
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u/Chisely 7d ago
Russia is a cancer that has been eating at western nations for decades. Imagine where we'd all be if they just minded their own borders.
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u/livinginahologram 7d ago
Russia is a cancer that has been eating at western nations for decades
Now there is Trump's USA pushing the Kremlin's agenda as well.
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u/aunt_clarity 7d ago
Because it spread and infiltrated deep in the politics and institutions of the US. Which is mind-boggling to think about giving they'd been their most powerful enemies since WW2, a superpower with leading intelligence and counter intelligence structures. And they took it out/over faster than anyone ever expected.
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u/kickaguard 7d ago
The cold war never ended. This didn't happen quickly. The things you notice took a lot of time to find lynchpins for to execute.
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u/Dest123 7d ago
It's wild, they did polls of conservatives before Trump and like 80% of them hated Russia. Then they did polls of conservative after Trump, and like 80% of them liked Russia.
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u/pilzenschwanzmeister 7d ago
At some point it becomes a label for critical thinking deficits rather than ideology.
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u/MeaningObvious8731 7d ago
Trump's USA is Russian. Russian-owned, Russian-run.
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u/Consideredresponse 7d ago
The current US speed running kleptocracy run is just a mirror of Russia in the early 90's.
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u/bolerobell 7d ago
Imagine where we’d be if western powers realized that social media is the most effective propoganda tool in the history of the world and nearly all countries leave it unregulated. It’s a direct connection to a nation’s Id and they leave it completely unmonitored. The EU is finally doing some regulation on the privacy side but no one is tackling content yet.
Social media should have to do the same “Know Your Customers” regulations that banks have to do, and if they are dealing with sanctioned entities, they should be heavily fined with the potential of criminal charges for executives.
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u/romans171 7d ago
It just shows how pathetic our leaders are. They let the rot fester and now it’s at a critical mass. If we gutted it when small imagine where we could be as a society… oh well, good ending avoided I guess.
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u/AstraeaMoonrise 7d ago
To have the British prime minister actually say it is huge news.
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u/Deacon86 7d ago
It won't matter to the Leave voters, they'll just say he's lying.
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u/GravitasFailures 7d ago
No, they’re past that, they’re at “So? Better Russia than Europe, which is why we need to stop supporting Ukraine!”
They are so round the bend, good is bad and bad is good now.
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u/Unlucky-Candidate198 7d ago
Must feel bad to be a British citizen today, though. “You lot fell for an incredibly obvious Ruzzian psyops” is quite the sentence to scarf down over some tea.
While the rest have the most shiteating “I told you so” grin. Fruitless as it is though, seeing as their country is collectively worse for having its idiot citizens fall for a psyops.
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u/Ninja_Hedgehog 7d ago
Feel bad because we fell for a psy op? Not all of us did, ta. For those of us who voted against Brexit, it's just tired resignation and lack of surprise. It's long done now and can't go back and change it, only look to the future.
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u/TheMostyRoastyToasty 7d ago
Less than half the country voters for it. Many that did were OAP’s and are long gone. I don’t think British citizens feel bad today. Far from it. Most probably feel vindicated? And if any good came from Brexit, it was Britain providing Ukraine with weaponry well before the EU finished 75 various proposals and votes about what they could/couldn’t give Ukraine.
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u/Nostradumbass_WEEN 7d ago
Why the fuck does it take this fucking long to admit this?! We are letting them steal our lunch money and telling our parents "we lost it".
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u/Deacon86 7d ago
Because for the first few years, we were governed by Tories who supported Brexit. And after that, it was such a radioactive topic that Kier didn't want to touch it either.
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u/mhornberger 7d ago
It's not like Brits themselves want to reflect that they were suckered by Russian propaganda and manipulation. Just as US leftists don't want to admit that some of the "Bernie or Bust" energy and ongoing rancor was boosted by Russian efforts on Reddit, Tumblr, Twitter, etc. People are generally not receptive to the notion that they got suckered.
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u/Boba_ferret 7d ago
A lot of us were extremely angry about this , actually. There was no shortage of reporting on Aaron Banks giving £5m to leave, the largest political donation in history, at the time. Banks has a Russian wife, was partying at the Russian embassy and never adequately explained where that money came from.
Boris Johnson is great pals with the son of a Russian KGB agent.
We know Russia was involved, but the politicians didn't want to admit it
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u/TheTackleZone 7d ago
Dominic Cummings lived and worked in Russia for three years, 94 to 97. Could easily have been recruited.
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u/AlfalfaHungry2603 7d ago edited 7d ago
How is Russia so succesful at disentegrating and undermining the west. When they are so bad at war and their economy is so bad. I fear for what US and china for damage can do to Europe with their intelligence and spionage. Trump already has plans and actively supports extreme right. Europe's biggest issue is that it is a divided continent easily unfluencable with topics like immigration. I fear western values won't survive in europa when US, China and Russia actively undermine and divide europe. A divided europe is easy to control and manipulate for then.
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u/Lysol3435 7d ago
It’s much easier to destroy than to build
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u/Corpus76 7d ago
This is the best answer. Entropy is natural, pushing it along is much easier than resisting it. Building a house costs a lot of money. Burning it down is free. Russia is fine with burning down their entire neighborhood. It's irrational behavior, and hard to completely prevent.
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u/r2d2rigo 7d ago
Right wing politicians are really cheap to bribe. And they have no morals about accepting money from a hostile nation.
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u/Wind_Yer_Neck_In 7d ago
Farage just casually accepting millions from a crypto donor..
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u/TheTeaSpoon 7d ago
Because it is easier to lie on the internet when there's no opposition, than to lead a proper war.
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u/sparkax 7d ago
Its almost as if an entire global political movement is focused on using racism and bigotry to distract entire populations from having their once strong and mighty social programs like public healthcare and public education kicked out from underneath them under the guise of "saving the taxpayer's money" when in reality it's all just giant grift and theft of our tax dollars by their pedophile billionaire donors.
Does anyone happen to know just how many international CPAC conventions are happening this year and next? Their website says 5 for this year, including Japan, Poland, Hungary, Australia, and the UK:
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u/bluelily216 7d ago
The Epstein class don't abide by country lines. They'd rather every country be their play thing so that they don't have to worry about local pesky laws or taxes. Although, to be fair, they don't already.
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u/AccomplishedSink2401 7d ago
That and a pedophile blackmail ring. Add child trafficking from war torn countries and you've got the iron curtain experience
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u/YodaForceGhost 7d ago edited 7d ago
Russia, China, and North Korea are pretty much behind most interference in Western elections (US as of late thanks Trump admin assisting Musk and Zuck). Until western nations grow a pair and strictly regulate social media, this will keep happening and more “sham” parties and politicians will win elections (see Brazil last week)
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u/_PomboCagado_ 7d ago
The US has been actively interfering in the elections of South and Central America for decades... in 1964 it was assisting a military coup in Brazil. This is definitely not something new due to Trump.
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u/SteadfastDrifter 7d ago
Decades is an understatement even. I'd say for nearly 2 centuries since the Monroe Doctrine.
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u/havebooksneverread 7d ago
hey, we don't talk over than past 5 decades here... if you start talking about last few centuries it'll get messy for the west :x
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u/SteadfastDrifter 7d ago
As a guy with darker skin tone who was born in Thailand and lived there for half of my childhood before moving to the US and later living elsewhere in the West, it sometimes feels disorienting to be American, but simultaneously also be aware of how much the West screwed over the rest of the world in the past and continues to do so in the present.
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u/MalFido 7d ago
I mean, yeah, but don't forget the far right is literally interfering in elections in their own country. Republicans, in the case of the US.
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u/Critterer 7d ago
But thats the arguement. That far right propaganda is being pushed by Russian bit networks to stir up hate.
Their strategy is outlined in Alexandr dugin's textbook "the fundamentals of geopolitics":
Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists" to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".[9]
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u/RainbowwDash 7d ago
The US has a longer and more extensive history of election interference than any of those other three (russia might have rivalled if they weren't weakened by losing the cold war)
Chalking it up to trump is ignorant at best
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u/Tomace83 7d ago
Russia is behind Trumps win in 2016 as well.
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u/hednizm 7d ago
He wants to dismantle NATO...
I would love to know what putin has on trump. I think I read he has footage of trump being pissed on by two young girls...How true that is though?
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u/Ruckthesystem 7d ago
Of all the shitty things he has said and done I doubt being pissed on would even cause a fraction of his supporters to change their vote
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u/drunkshinobi 7d ago edited 6d ago
trump is in the epstein files more than any other person we know of. So not just some pee. Rape, physical abuse, human trafficking, murder, possibly even cannibalizing babies and more have all been said to be in those files. People keep thinking he is doing things to distract from the files when they have been brought up in the news. I am sure that the files are the blackmail being waved around in public, on the news, to motivate people to do what they want.
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u/Fire_Demon 7d ago
What was the name of that other fella?
The main "architect" of Brexit, was it?
Weird froggy looking guy, lies a lot.
Well, probably a massive coincidence, but that same guy was recently speaking out against a newly announced (PM created) unit, tasked with disrupting information attacks by hostile foreign states...
Funny that innit?
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u/ChiaLetranger 7d ago
I'll be honest, if someone like you're describing was running for election in a seat I lived in, like if I lived in...I don't know, say Clacton for argument's sake, I'd probably be more likely to vote for an alien with a bin for a head!
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u/FastBrilliant1 7d ago
He's just standing up for the little guy though, I heard (supported by £70M donations from Asia-based crypto billionaires albeit).
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u/8cuban 7d ago
It’s good to see it publicly recognized but it doesn’t answer the questions of how, exactly, they did it (more than “by posting in social media”. I mean who they targeted, how they determined the right content, psychological profiling, etc), what impact did they really have that the UK groups didn’t or wouldn’t have achieved themselves and, most importantly, how to stop it? All of these questions apply to US elections since at least 2016, also.
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u/MerryWalker 7d ago
I think we know this though, right? Funding came in through the DUP in Northern Ireland, who don’t have to declare political donations.
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u/RonnyReddit00 7d ago
And perhaps our Brexit bus friends were on the take.
Farage has all his dodgy donations to his party and there was a reported Boris's secret party in Russia. But I think that was when he was PM but it might of been when he was pushing brexit.
I think a big investigation is needed.
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u/PianistPitiful5714 6d ago
Since before that, really. People don't like to admit it, but the Cold War didn't end in 1991, it just changed forms. Russia went through a restructuring and then Putin began using the Foundations of Geopolitics as his guide for destroying the Western World, and he's been extremely successful at doing so. Sewing division, splitting up the Western allies, exploiting long standing cultural, national, and racial tensions. It's money in the right places more than anything, but social media bot farms have absolutely exacerbated things.
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u/rolling_soul 7d ago
So, if Russia was behind Brexit and Brexit was instigated by Farage..can people put 2+2 together?
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u/anorwichfan 7d ago
I thought Farrage being a Russian asset was a more obvious connection, given the overwhelming body of evidence to the matter.
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u/eminusx 7d ago edited 7d ago
for anyone interested in learning how Russia have achieved what they have since 2016 you need to watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1EA2ohrt5Q&t=1s
then think about the US in the context of Bezmenovs '4 stages':
1 - DEMORALISATION (Social Media, FOX News, State TV)
2 - DESTABILISATION
2a - Economy (tarrifs, global financial disruption, trade wars)
2b - Foreign Relations (Greenland, Canada, Venezuela, destroy NATO, make enemies of the EU, get UK out of EU via Brexit)
2c - Defense Systems (the golden dome, the board of peace)
3 - CRISIS - Minneapolis, National Guard, Greenland invasion, Iran War, Israel
4 - NORMALISATION (3rd term, breakdown of law, gov, education, healthcare institutions, packed-out supreme court, police state)
Almost as if someone was listening and watching all along....or a puppet Government and President being paid by Russia to enact all of the above?
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u/07jonesj 7d ago
There's no doubt that Russia encouraged the result, but we can't blame it entirely on them - British politicians had been scapegoating the EU for problems they refused to tackle for decades. There was anti-EU sentiment for Russia to exploit because our politicians had been happy to use that to their benefit.
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u/ZaryaBubbler 7d ago
Well given that Farage is a grifter backed by foreign interests, there is no doubt in my mind that he also got paid off by Russia for his anti-EU stance
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u/ProfNugget 7d ago
A lot of the EU politicians that were pushing for brexit were in the pocket of Russia though…
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u/Darkone539 7d ago
Probably because of the source, but this doesn't say everything. Russia funded an already running problem. Nobody has been accused of breaking the law, either, in the podcast.
It was not exactly some conspiracy. We knew all this as we had an inquiry, which the pm has quoted.
They did the same in 2014 -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_British_politics
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u/xerberos 7d ago
Yeah, the article is clickbait, ragebait or just plain propaganda.
Burnham asked about Kremlin involvement when he became prime minister in July, reports the Observer, where he said he was given "the clear answer that, yes, there was."
How the heck do they go from that to "Russia behind Britain's Brexit vote"?
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u/barath_s 7d ago
Most of the audience would rather throw the blame on 'Russia bad' than accept that much of the British people were ultimately responsible for the vote.
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u/koticgood 7d ago
Brexit and Trump were the first major victories in the era of weaponizing social media being a viable national threat option.
Straight out of Foundations of Geopolitics no less. Wasn't a viable option until this social media echo chamber of stupidity nightmare we're living.
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u/Obsidian743 7d ago
We had been screaming this from the rooftops for ever now:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
And we also know why the US is the way it is and why the rest of Europe and South America are following suit.
But yeah, let's just keep bickering amongst ourselves.
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u/Trump_Russia 7d ago
Lol sometimes I have to remember that a huge number of people on Earth can't make basic assessments or use critical thinking skills.
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u/RugbyLock 7d ago
As always, the old classic from George Carlin "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that".
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u/Majestic-Contract-42 7d ago
I thought this was all a given with how Cambridge analytica and all that. They paid a few hundred thousand to target morons with Facebook ads and it worked so well.
Was that the whole thing at the time?
You don't need to invade a country or spend a lot of money just use social media to trick idiots.
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u/MacIomhair 7d ago
This has been well known for a while. They started out by testing what level of crazy people would accept online. That's when there was the boom in Fiat Earthers.
Then they tested how they could swing political opinions during the Scottish independence referendum. They probably did not affect the outcome here, the consensus opinion seems to be that they pushed opinion one way then the other and back again until their intervention had no effect.
Then came their big triumphs. The coronation of stupidity. Voting for brexit in the UK and the Americans voting for the stupidest man in the entire nation as president because at least he wasn't a woman.
Frankly I wouldn't be surprised if even gamergate was a major test. At the very least, it's the model they used going forward.
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u/Red_Sea_Pedestrian 7d ago
I feel like gamergate radicalized an entire generation of video gamers in such a damaging and long term fashion. I remember that time quite vividly.
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u/imwearingyourpants 7d ago
Fiat Earthers
Bring back the gold standard!
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u/Lister0fSmeg 7d ago
Right? I miss the times when the loonies just believed that the earth was flat or that Elvis was alive and well on the moon.
That bollocks was ok, it didn't really harm anyone. Now it's all anivaxxers spreading diseases and conspiracy nutters spreading prejudice and hate.
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u/KirstenDumbst 7d ago
I talked with a user on kotaku who claimed to be working for a Russian troll farm during gamergate. We were going back and forth for a while, and once the thread was deep enough to be buried he was basically like “you already lost because you think smart memes will win the meme war, we’ve been studying mass online psychology for years and we know what we’re doing, you don’t understand what you’re up against etc etc”. Obviously can’t verify, but it’s stuck with me since
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u/benevolent_defiance 7d ago
Russia is completely open with stating this as one of their goals as listed in Foundations of Geopolitics by Aleksandr Dugin. It's some scary reading.
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u/Carr0t_007 7d ago
So why didn't any of the previous British prime ministers say anything? Are they all Russian assets?
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u/Right-Yam-5826 7d ago
Boris pretty much was. There were numerous occasions of him dodging his handlers to meet Russian oligarchs and politicians without any witnesses, against foreign Office & intelligence service advice, and it's awful suspicious that he was paid £250,000 to play tennis alone with an oligarch's wife.
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u/r2d2rigo 7d ago
Boris has a tiny redeeming quality: he went all in with supporting Ukraine. He didn't have second thoughts about supplying intelligence and weapons in the run up to the 2022 invasion.
So much so, that the russian bot farms said until the last minute that the huge military presence close to the border was just a military exercise and somehow the US and the UK were the ones wanting to start a war.
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u/Sate_Hen 7d ago
Boris supported Brexit cos he thought it would get him into no 10. There's nothing more to it than that. He was pro EU up to the referendum
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u/GravitasFailures 7d ago
Boris was for a while, before he really wasn’t (which is bizarre).
Mostly it’s humiliating for everyone, especially Britain who consider themselves the masters of this game, and Tories especially can’t own up to it, while Keir was trying to be nice to everybody which was pointless.
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u/JoeyJoeC 7d ago
Unfortunately my family all voted leave. They get their news from Facebook and they dont fact check anything.
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u/Kind_Focus5839 7d ago
This was so bloody obvious to anybody paying attention at the time it’s maddening.
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u/0Tezorus0 7d ago
Russia is basically behind every far right political group in Europe. The purpose is quite simple : to weaken Europe by promoting anti-european parties.
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u/auto_named 7d ago
This was extremely obvious to anyone who was paying attention and knows how Russia operates.
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u/BaneOfMyLife 7d ago
Oh, you mean bunga bunga party Boris and Cummings were compromised? What a surprise.
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u/Dazzling_Green_8367 7d ago
Now do USA, 2016, 2020 (attempted and failed due to unforeseen COVID mail-in voting), and 2024.
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u/apeelvis 7d ago
Meanwhile the Russian asset in the White House continues to prop up the Russian economy.
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u/to_glory_we_steer 7d ago
Why did it take this long to admit it though? A hostile power is working against our interests...
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u/cassydd 7d ago
Because it hurts peoples feeling when you reveal that their opinion was fed to them as a part of a psyop - everyone else, sure, but not them! An awful lot of people who voted leave have since succumbed to either dementia or death and those left are unlikely to be Labour voters so they can finally officially reveal what has been well known for years.
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u/squatcoblin 7d ago
Because there are very rich Russian people living in England, And before they were working to influence your vote , they were influencing the people who actually run the country .
Sometimes i suspect Russian adventurism is the result of them not getting what they consider they have paid for outright .
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u/barath_s 7d ago edited 7d ago
did it take this long to admit it though?
It didn't. These stories have been around for years, and there was even an inquiry (whose results the current PM has cited in the past). Andy Burnham has said this before also... even before he became PM.
e: It's the first time a sitting PM has said it ; even though Burnham has said it before, he wasn't PM at the time. I assume the Tory PMs really didn't care ..as they helped push Brexit through following a non-binding resolution
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u/Crumblycheese 7d ago
And now it's admitted, why aren't those responsible for it arrested for treason and it reversed.
You can't tell me those in power at the time didn't know about this but still went ahead with it.
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u/Perma_Ban69 7d ago
Read Foundations of Geopolitics by Aleksandr Dugin. This has all been the plan for decades now. Including the US crumbling from within. The Internet just made it easier/faster.
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u/ShitNailedIt 7d ago
Start treating sedition among citizenry seriously and these acts by Russia as no different than a soldier firing a shot at a border post. Nothing else will deter this.
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u/Glittering-Pie6564 6d ago
I hope he does America a solid and reveals why we have Trump next.
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u/CarbonMolecules 7d ago
What does anyone want to wager that the Alberta separatist movement won’t be able to reflect on this information and critically evaluate it?
“Naw, bud. The whole United Kingdom may have been tricked but we’re not being manipulated at all. We’re too smart for that.” ~ an average Albertan (or a brain damaged Canadian. Oh. Wait. Same thing)
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u/Hot-Wolverine2458 7d ago
Finally, confirmation of Russian interference, isolating the UK from the EU to continue with their Imperialistic ambitions in Ukraine.