The official Leave campaign is openly threatening journalist Carole Cadwalledr with violence for successfully uncovering Russian meddling in the Brexit referendum:
These kinds of threats need to be taken seriously. Jo Cox MP was assassinated by hardline Leavers for opposing Brexit.
Imagine the front pages of the Mail and the Sun and the outrage of Farage and co. if it was Remainers threatening a Brexit supporter like this.
No surprise there. There was and is a high degree of political thuggery at the heart of the Leave campaign. Also an increasing desperation, some even threatening riots in the street if a hard Brexit fails to happen.
How many of them are Russian trolls?
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dear lord. what has this country come to? I always thought Britain was such an amazing country, but Brexit has opened a Pandora’s box of nasties.
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Meanwhile the ‘remainers’ quietly get on with their deceit – and treason
[LOL. After all of the Leave lies during the campaign, a Brexiter accuses Remainers of deceit. And after all of the fake news stories shared by Russian troll bots, he accuses Remainers of treason. Doublethink is well and truly alive.] – TOM
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Take a look at the reader responses on The Mail website to the news of Russian influence on the referendum. Most of them are poisonous.
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My god, next thing you know they’ll be threatening the LA Times for exposing US interference in elections around the world:
http://beta.latimes.com/nation/la-na-us-intervention-foreign-elections-20161213-story.html
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1. I just want to start by agreeing with you that threats of violence are wrong.
2. Jo Cox was murdered by one hardline Leaver who is also a neo-Nazi.
3. Carole Cadwalladr is a Russia-phobic hack.
4. If Trump is in cahoots with Putin then why did the former bomb one Russian ally (Syria), is threatening another (Iran), and declared economic warfare on Russia.
5. If we pretend that Russia did hack into John Podesta’s emails, then how is showing Americans how evil the Democrats are undermining democracy.
6. What the Russians are doing on our social media is wrong, however, 17.4 million people voted Leave because they either believed in the lies of the Leave campaigners; blame our EU membership for what almost 4 decades of homegrown neoliberalism has done to our country; or believe the EU is turning into a united states of Europe/don’t approve of the people of the UK following laws created by politicians they didn’t vote for.
7. Finally, if Russia did fund the Leave campaign – it doesn’t compare with what we did to Serbia, Libya, and Iraq (including the use of uranium weapons and the economic sanctions leading up to the 2003 invasion).
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What a ridiculous comment, trying to claim some moral high ground for Russia.. what about Chechnya, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Eastern Ukraine? What about Afghanistan? You talk of neoliberalism, well I’d invite you to be a resident of Russia or a country within its sphere of influence and I would ask you what your views are after a couple of years of that. EU neoliberalism is not the rampant, brutal type which will take over the UK once the tax-avoiding elites get their way with Brexit. People like you just don’t get it.. the culture war that Russia propagates is a way of their highly corrupt elite staying in power. Maybe that’s your vision of Britain’s future, but somehow I don’t think you would want it if you got it.
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Brendan, I’m not a fan of the Russian government, I just feel they are a much lighter shade of grey compared to us when it comes to foreign affairs. South Ossetia and Abkhazia are independent states. Russia did not invade Ukraine; the ethnic Russians of Dometsk and Lugansk want to separate from the rest of Ukraine after the CIA backed coup in their country.
“What about Afghanistan?”
The Americans created and funded the Taliban to overthrow the socialist government of that land.
As for Brexit… I campaigned and voted for Remain. When I mentioned “homegrown neoliberalism” I was referring to the Conservatives, New Labour, etc.
“…the culture war that Russia propagates is a way of their highly corrupt elite staying in power.”
Care to elaborate?
“Maybe that’s your vision of Britain’s future, but somehow I don’t think you would want it if you got it.”
No, I certainly wouldn’t want to live in a country full of rich tax avoiders, expenses scamming MPs (elected using an unfair voting system), and an unelected second chamber of parliament. I also don’t want to live in a country where the government steals from the most vulnerable in society to give to the filthy rich, is a puppet of the rogue predator nation known as the USA, and locks illegal immigrants indefinitely in private detention centres.
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What were these threats of violence to Carole Cadwalladr? The links in the blogpost don’t seem to work. It is crucial that real threats are passed on to the police immediately. Was this done?
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“Jo Cox MP was assassinated by hardline Leavers for opposing Brexit.”
No she wasn’t. Which nutcase conspiracy theory web site did you get that from?
Jo Cox was murdered by a lone Nazi white supremacist with a long history of mental health problems. The available information is that he killed her because he thought she was a traitor to white people. He had fantasized about killing somebody like her for many years before Brexit was ever even mentioned.
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Jo Cox was murdered by the proverbial loner with mental health issues. Although Farage, Johnson, Gove, Dacre et al did not pull the trigger, they cultivated and encouraged the atmosphere in which such a crime could take place. The Barclay brothers are doing the same with their appalling headline from last week. The bile with which all the brexit supporting papers fire at Gina Miller and Anna Soubray for standing up for parliament’s rights is literally astonishing.
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LOL yourself!
[LOL. After all of the Leave lies during the campaign, a Brexiter accuses Remainers of deceit. And after all of the fake news stories shared by Russian troll bots, he accuses Remainers of treason. Doublethink is well and truly alive.] – TOM
But we are not leaving the EU! Why aren’t you following the money regarding EU military unification?? The self-imposed chaos by the current government only serves to increase USA hegemony over europe – which is dutifully blaming Russia for everything whilst below the surface the risible unelected eu commision is doing whatever it wants – your ignorance and bias is stunning
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