General News Thread

[Finnegan]

19 hours ago, Amin said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8r2l352z2do

 

Evidence that Russia is behind a number of online Far-right and Islamist groups that are stoking division in the UK and elsewhere. The article also details how Tommy Robinson is consciously using these Russian groups to further his agenda.  

 

I wish Labour would engage Farage on this front, to be honest. 

 

It's useless making passive aggressive digs at him or subtly implying he's racist or just challenging him on policy. His base won't care about any of that. 

 

Really attack him in language that will get an emotional response out of Reform supporters. Call him what he is, a traitor. 

 

His supporters like to think of themselves as patriotic Brits, point out how much Russia is the biggest most immediate threat to the UK and then point out how many times he's been on Russian state television, given speeches defending Putin and taken Russian money. He's been on the same TV channels that have threatened to nuke London, talking about how the UK should be friendlier to Moscow. 

 

Go on the offensive and crucify the judas ****. I don't care if you want to vote anti immigrant, I don't care if you want to vote conservative or right wing. Just don't vote for a ****ing traitor that'd happily work against this country for the benefit of Russia, Putin and anyone else that'll pay him. That's the message. 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by Finnegan

[bovril]

4 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

I wish Labour would engage Farage on this front, to be honest. 

 

It's useless making passive aggressive digs at him or subtly implying he's racist or just challenging him on policy. His base won't care about any of that. 

 

Really attack him in language that will get an emotional response out of Reform supporters. Call him what he is, a traitor. 

 

His supporters like to think of themselves as patriotic Brits, point out how much Russia is the biggest most immediate threat to the UK and then point out how many times he's been on Russian state television, given speeches defending Putin and taken Russian money. He's been on the same TV channels that have threatened to nuke London, talking about how the UK should be friendlier to Moscow. 

 

Go on the offensive and crucify the judas ****. I don't care if you want to vote anti immigrant, I don't care if you want to vote conservative or right wing. Just don't vote for a ****ing traitor that'd happily work against this country for the benefit of Russia, Putin and anyone else that'll pay him. That's the message. 

 

All this has been pointed out and discussed a not insignificant amount. The damage that Farage's policies have done to Britain are out in the open and he is still popular among great swathes of the population. He could win the election, crash the economy, increase immigration back to Boris era levels, then disband reform and start a new party complaining about those things and people would still vote for him. There isn't really much you can do at this point.