Re: Was Labour complicit with Russian interference in 2019 UK General Election?
 

The point of subtle influence is that it’s "subtle"... ;)

Re: Was Labour complicit with Russian interference in 2019 UK General Election?
 

aaah, the strange magnetic draw of all things sparkly and shiny, with no strings attached . . . much like TV adds then :D

Re: Was Labour complicit with Russian interference in 2019 UK General Election?
 

You have evidence of Russian interference in the 1975 poll?

Re: Was Labour complicit with Russian interference in 2019 UK General Election?
 

Do you?

Re: Was Labour complicit with Russian interference in 2019 UK General Election?
 

This sounds like a question put to a captured James Bond in the baddies' lair! :D

Re: Was Labour complicit with Russian interference in 2019 UK General Election?
 

Re: Was Labour complicit with Russian interference in 2019 UK General Election?
 

Report out 10.30am today. Terrible for a democratic nation that it has been witheld for so long, even if it contains few bombshells.

Re: Was Labour complicit with Russian interference in 2019 UK General Election?
 

Well well well, sadly for the Remainers, this was thought to be the bombshell they hoped for some last, sad and despicable and desperate attempt to subvert democracy by using this Russia report to suggest meddling in the EU Referendum.

Re: Was Labour complicit with Russian interference in 2019 UK General Election?
 

Struggling to follow your line of thought. Surely if the Russians did interfere in the Scottish and EU referendums and UK elections, it would be they who were subverting democracy?

Re: Was Labour complicit with Russian interference in 2019 UK General Election?
 

What is this "interference" ever have amounted to? Just people expressing an opinion? Do no other countries ever "interfere" in the same way?:rolleyes: Then there is the rather insidious way the media "interferes". Even the inclusion of an extra word in a sentence can change the tone and impression of a story. Journalists can be rather selective on who and what they challenge about a story.

Re: Was Labour complicit with Russian interference in 2019 UK General Election?
 

My understanding from the initial story that Mick posted was that some confidential British Government documents were illegally obtained by Russian interests and uploaded to the Redditt site, thereby placing them in the public domain. Journalists and opposition parties were then able to avail themselves of the information.
This is slightly different from your suggestion of posting an opinion.

Re: Was Labour complicit with Russian interference in 2019 UK General Election?
 

Re: Was Labour complicit with Russian interference in 2019 UK General Election?
 

Documents are leaked all the time. Any misrepresentation of the contents was purely down to Labour and the media, which allowed them to get away with it. I remember an instance a long time go(pre 1997), where a civil service report on options on a subject was leaked. Labour and the media jumped on it, claiming it was Government plans, when at that point nobody in Government had seen it, and if they had, it was just options, not intentions. It turned out that one of the people involved in the report was somebody who was a Labour party candidate.


The central problem isn't so much leaking of documents, but the misrepresentation of the contents.

Re: Was Labour complicit with Russian interference in 2019 UK General Election?
 

:tu:

Re: Was Labour complicit with Russian interference in 2019 UK General Election?
 

Report here. https://docs.google.com/a/independen...EyN2Y3NjM0OWFl

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I'm afraid that I think you're rather too forgiving of foreign powers.