Apparently Russia helped orchestrate and bankroll the Brexit campaign propaganda.

This is breaking several different ways over the past 24 hours.


Everything you need to know about the bombshell report linking Russia to Brexit By David Gilbert Jun 11, 2018

How a Journalist Kept Russia’s Secret Links to Brexit Under Wraps
A pro-Brexit journalist held back evidence of links between Russia and the Brexit campaign while playing down so-called conspiracy theories on TV.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...brexit-meeting

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Arron Banks, the millionaire businessman who bankrolled Nigel Farage’s campaign to quit the EU, had multiple meetings with Russian embassy officials in the run-up to the Brexit referendum, documents seen by the Observer suggest. • Multiple meetings between the leaders of Leave.EU and high-ranking Russian officials, from November 2015 to 2017. • Two meetings in the week Leave.EU launched its official campaign. • An introduction to a Russian businessman, by the Russian ambassador, the day after Leave.EU launched its campaign, who reportedly offered Banks a multibillion dollar opportunity to buy Russian goldmines. • A trip to Moscow in February 2016 to meet key partners and financiers behind a gold project, including a Russian bank. • Continued extensive contact in the run-up to the US election when Banks, his business partner and Leave.EU spokesman Andy Wigmore, and Nigel Farage campaigned in the US to support Donald Trump’s candidacy.

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Towards the end of last year, Banks issued a statement saying his contacts with “the Russians” consisted of “one boozy lunch” at the Russian embassy. Documents seen by the Observer, suggest a different version of events.

Was fairly easy to see this coming a couple months ago when it was revealed that Cambridge Analytica was carrying water for pro-Brexit groups.


Amazing the times we live in. Putin has his hand in every pie:

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A trove of leaked emails have exposed the extensive Russian ties of two top Brexit supporters in the U.K. who later threw their weight behind

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Controversy has grown over Russia’s alleged interference in a series of key polls, including the election of Donald Trump, last year’s French presidential elections and the Brexit referendum, to secure outcomes favourable to President Putin. Putin has long seen the eastward expansion of EU influence as a threat.

Putin has learned that propaganda > military & GDP. Dividing the enemy makes you stronger.

And here's an American opinion, so beware: 50 years ago the USA would have treated this as a deceleration of war against our allies. Sadly, as seen with the Russian interference in our election over here, one of our major parties is quite literally in Putin's pocket.

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