Re: The traditional CF voting intentions thread, week 6
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Originally Posted by Hugh
(Post 36178138)
Ooops….
You said the quiet bit out loud.
Strange how you focused on that point, and not
"The five pages identified by ABC Investigations as being part of a coordinated network appear to have little in common"
"ABC's analysis of the five pages found that while they claim to be based in the UK, most of the administrators for each page are based in Nigeria"
"The Nigerian connection is significant because previous online Russian propaganda networks were found to have been operating from Africa."
Probably just a automatic knee-jerk response on your behalf* when anyone points that that perhaps, just perhaps, Russia/Putin may not have our best interests at heart… ;)
*or are you on a bonus scheme, with escalating payments, the more you try to whatabout any negative reporting about the Greater Rus?
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Tbh, I didn't give much weight to the Nigeria bit for the same reason Chat GPT uses the word 'delve' all the time. If anyone wants to peddle English language content, on any subject matter, the cheapest and easiest way to do it is to pay some guy in the global south to do it for you. Farage has always had shady backers, capitalists without Britain's best interests at heart who have done more damage to this country than Russia ever have.
The Ukraine war is a soft underbelly for stirring up anti-refugee and anti-immigrant sentiment so it's unsurprising that the far right would use it given the economic cost of the war. In the absence of a clear direction, or that victory is achievable, or a plan for return of refugees, there's no real reason for the average person who isn't that bothered about all the other bad things that happen in the world outside of their control to care more about Ukraine (or Ukrainians) than any of the others. It's just land between Poland and Russia the same way Gaza is land between Israel and the Med. Away over there full of other people.
Xenophobia is the tried and tested dog whistle of English politics. A man as astute as Farage doesn't need the Kremlin to tell him that. He's been blowing it for over twenty years. |
