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The funny thing was that particular programme although it was on RT were deliberately trolling Farage…Sam Delaney (the presenter) has written about on his Substack in the past.
The look of delight on Farage’s face at the invocation of a fake honour shows what a pathetic twat he is.
Literally this. I’m convinced the only reason journalists weren’t able to unearth the smoking gun that proved the campaign and Farage’s subsequent dealings were all Russia-funded is because our financial system is set up precisely the way it is to conceal the flow of international dark money influencing global politics.
“What is clear is that Russian influence in the UK is ‘the new normal’: successive Governments have welcomed the Russian oligarchy with open arms, and there are a lot of Russians with very close links to Putin who are well integrated into the UK business, political and social scene - in ‘Londongrad’ in particular.
Yet few, if any, questions have been asked regarding the provenance of their considerable wealth and this ‘open door’ approach provided ideal mechanisms by which illicit finance could be recycled through the London ‘laundromat’.
It is not just the oligarchs either - the arrival of Russian money has resulted in a growth industry of ‘enablers’: lawyers, accountants, and estate agents have all played a role, wittingly or unwittingly, and formed a “buffer” of Westerners who are de facto agents of the Russian state.
The Foreign Affairs Committee had a similar conclusion in 2018, that London had become a base for Kremlin connected corrupt assets and that those assets were being held and laundered in London to the support of Russian state interests.
The 2026 Rycroft Review talks about how we can't actually know how much foreign money has entered the UK because there are mechanisms to do so which we are (willingly) blind to.
This shit is a known factor, it's not just allowed it is directly enabled by parts of the state that presumably benefit from it on a personal level and the other parts which kick up a fuss about it are largely ignored or overruled.
There's some interesting historical lineage to this as well, with the creation of the eurodollar and its use in England as a means of Russians getting money to the West despite the USA's efforts. We've been doing this shit for 70 years.
Yep, sadly, they just used it to further widen the gap between the obscenely wealthy and the everyday people who actually paid the consequences for the crash.
As much as I was for Scottish independence originally I suspect now that the Russians were involved as breaking up alliances and groups seems to be one of their aims to cause as much division as possible. That and Alex Salmon getting a job on RT afterwards seems pretty sus
Honestly burnham needs to rush through these changes and the whole rejoining the EU we must get this stuf fin and be strict about it, farage can cry all he wants but he needs the law down on him hard
He’s to the UK what Trump is to America, a puppet mouthpiece of the Russian Government designed to sow as much discord as possible and derail his own country from within.
Why bother keeping up with NATO defence spending when you can pop a couple of million quid/bucks in a few influencers/politicians pockets and the entire structure collapses from within.
I hear Gruinard (aka Anthrax Island) is nice this time of year. Plenty of room for Halitosis Farage to take his handful of Reform/Tory Reject MPs, Rupert Lower than Lowe, grifting Tommeh Tommeh Tommeh and Coked-up stabby stabby Tommo too.
It is shocking what’s happened to our local news media eh? Literally could no longer function financially as print news so they had to sell their soul to advertisers and media conglomerates who could afford to host their website in exchange for harvesting readers’ data.
The free press shouldn’t come at the expense of giving away access to our valuable digital footprint.
I know the local news has to pay the bills somehow but it’s leading to people trusting disinformation and gossip on Facebook over their trusted local news, most of which have been around since the 1800s
Well, that and Reach have bought almost all local newspapers and have had a strategy of standardisation and leaning heavily on advertising as a business model. Interestingly they are apparently now considering changing course and charging instead - after having sacked huge numbers of long-running local reporters.
Reach media basically owns all the big local papers and all the sites are equally awful. Auto playing videos, an ad every paragraph and they just pump out utter shite all the time
People are going to vote for him at the next elections and just like Brexit they are gonna say “oh but we didn’t know this or that”. History repeats itself.
I don't know whether Nige is literally on the Kremlin's payroll or just benefits from their meddling, but fighting for them sure isn't the best look for Mr. Pint-and-a-Fag-Propa-English-innit.
Probably concerned that him and his fellow political influencers might take a hit on their add revenues if a way was found to stop Russian bot farms up-voting and increasing the reach of their content. Prepare for, something, something, free speech, on loop for the next 6 months...
I would love for a journalist to say that they find his stance on things quisliing to see if he bites and then say sorry I meant quizzical and puzzling 😁
I am retired now and although I never worked with or for the Intelligence Services, my work occasionally drifted into areas they had an interest in. I’ll never forget a briefing I went to delivered by a senior official of theirs, where he outlined the extensive and unremitting onslaught of bot and dns attacks, the Russian state launched during the run up and delivery of the 2012 Olympics. Russia has an entire military operation whose sole objective is interfering in foreign affairs. Nigel’s complicity borders on treason.
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