{"id":199230,"date":"2019-12-14T07:40:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T07:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=199230"},"modified":"2019-12-17T07:29:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T07:29:21","slug":"someone-interfered-in-the-uk-election-and-it-wasnt-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=199230","title":{"rendered":"Someone Interfered In The UK Election, And It Wasn\u2019t Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Caitlin Johnstone \u2013 Medium.com Dec 13, 2019<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-199231\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Cartoon-obey-obey.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Cartoon-obey-obey.png 800w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Cartoon-obey-obey-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Cartoon-obey-obey-768x431.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Ladies and gentlemen I have here at my fingertips indisputable proof that egregious election meddling took place in the United Kingdom on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-selectable-paragraph=\"\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Before you get all excited, no, it wasn\u2019t the Russians. It wasn\u2019t the Chinese, the Iranians, Cobra Command or the Legion of Doom. I\u2019m not going to get any Rachel Maddow-sized paychecks for revealing this evidence to you, nor am I going to draw in millions of credulous viewers waiting with bated breath for a bombshell revelation of an international conspiracy that will invalidate the results of the election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-selectable-paragraph=\"\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In fact, hardly anyone will even care.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-selectable-paragraph=\"\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Hardly anyone will care because this election interference has been happening right out in the open, and was perfectly legal. And nobody will suffer any consequences for it.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The centrists and mainstream media outlets are responsible for the right wing win in the UK. They spent all their time bashing and smearing Jeremy Corbyn bc they will always prioritize smashing the left, even if it means allying with the far right. Shameful.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RaniaKhalek\/status\/1205280724640763905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Nobody will suffer any consequences for interfering in the UK election because the ones doing the interfering were extremely powerful, and that\u2019s who the system is built to serve.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-selectable-paragraph=\"\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">As of this writing British exit polls are indicating a <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/world\/europe\/uk-election-live-boris-johnson-and-jeremy-corbyn-vie-for-leadership-as-british-voters-head-to-the-polls-20191212-p53jdk.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>landslide victory for the Tories<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. Numerous other factors went into this result, including most notably a Labour Party ambivalently straddling an irreconcilable divide on the issue of Brexit, but it is also undeniable that the election was affected by a political smear campaign that was entirely unprecedented in scale and vitriol in the history of western democracy. This smear campaign was driven by billionaire-controlled media outlets, along with intelligence and military agencies, as well as state media like the BBC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-selectable-paragraph=\"\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thelondoneconomic.com\/opinion\/jeremy-corbyn-is-the-most-smeared-politician-in-history\/18\/07\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>has been described<\/strong><\/span><\/a> as the most smeared politician in history, and this is a fair description. Journalist Matt Kennard recently <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2019-12-04-how-the-uk-military-and-intelligence-establishment-is-working-to-stop-jeremy-corbyn-from-becoming-prime-minister\/\">compiled documentation of dozens of incidents<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in which former and current spooks and military officials collaborated with plutocratic media institutions to portray Corbyn as a threat to national security. Journalistic accountability advocates like <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medialens.org\/2019\/the-campaign-to-stop-corbyn-smears-racism-and-censorship\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Media Lens<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views\/2019\/07\/04\/plot-keep-jeremy-corbyn-out-power\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Jonathan Cook<\/strong><\/span><\/a> have been <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/?s=corbyn\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>working<\/strong><\/span><\/a> for <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medialens.org\/?s=corbyn+smear\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>years<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to compile evidence of the mass media\u2019s attempts to paint Corbyn as everything from a terrorist sympathizer to a Communist to a Russian asset to an IRA supporter to a closet antisemite. Just the other day <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2019\/12\/11\/us-uk-military-intelligence-apparatus-deploy-media-smears-against-corbyn\/\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The<\/strong><\/span><\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong> <em>Grayzone<\/em> documented<\/strong><\/span><\/a> how establishment narrative manager Ben Nimmo was enlisted to unilaterally target Corbyn with a fact-free Russiagate-style conspiracy theory in the lead-up to the election, a psyop that was uncritically circulated by both right-wing outlets like <em>The Telegraph<\/em> as well as ostensibly \u201cleft\u201d-wing outlets like <em>The Guardian<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-selectable-paragraph=\"\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Just as Corbyn\u2019s advocacy for the many over the plutocratic few saw him targeted by billionaire media outlets, his view of Palestinians as human beings saw him <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/01\/uk-corbyn-calls-probe-israeli-interference-170113202756949.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>targeted by the imperialist Israel lobby<\/strong><\/span><\/a> as exposed in the <em>Al Jazeera<\/em> documentary <em>The Lobby<\/em>. For a mountain of links refuting the bogus antisemitism smear directed at Corbyn, a <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vR-tiGv2w89fnqY1_cPygN8VlP4uROfF9ys8THXB1p0r-UTAPgmx5g3pgWfr-aeo3G3Ka1S-bbtmD1w\/pub\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>lifelong opponent of antisemitism<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, check out the deluge of responses to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/caitoz\/status\/1199701832634753024\">this query I made on Twitter the other day<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-selectable-paragraph=\"\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This interference continued right up into the day before the election, with the BBC\u2019s political editor Laura Kuenssberg <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2019\/12\/12\/did-laura-kuennsberg-commit-massive-breach-of-electoral-ethics\/?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=eb662cd67d84ecd1ac8d1c9b08859633e360c16e-1576203465-0-AYW2F0Oj5XkDXZyRcsaxhtsWqiLH_t5XM_9F938naSrxPN0sP8-puBvJggDg4QnsEbK6td%20\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>flagrantly violating election rules<\/strong><\/span><\/a> by <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/asankade\/status\/1204777087485255685?s=20\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>reporting<\/strong><\/span><\/a> that early postal votes had been illegally tallied and results were \u201clooking very grim for Labour\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There was extreme election interference in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UKElection?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UKElection<\/a>. It didn&#39;t come from the Russians. It didn&#39;t come from the Chinese. It came from the billionaire class and its political\/media lackeys. And it was perfectly legal.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Caitlin Johnstone \u23f3 (@caitoz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/caitoz\/status\/1205251933788729345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The historically unprecedented smear campaign that was directed at Corbyn from the right, the far-right, and from within his own party had an effect. Of <em>course<\/em> it did. If you say this today on social media you\u2019ll <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/caitoz\/status\/1205274925671411713?s=20\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>get a ton of comments<\/strong><\/span><\/a> telling you you\u2019re wrong, telling you every vote against Labour was exclusively due to the British people not wanting to live in a Marxist dystopia, telling you it was exclusively because of Brexit, totally denying any possibility that the years of deceitful mass media narrative management that British consciousness was pummelled with day in and day out prior to the election had any impact whatsoever upon its results.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-selectable-paragraph=\"\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Right. Sure guys. Persistent campaigns to deliberately manipulate people\u2019s minds using mass media have no effect on their decisions at all. I guess that\u2019s why that whole \u201cadvertising\u201d fad never made any money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-selectable-paragraph=\"\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">I am not claiming here that the billions of dollars worth of free mass media reporting that was devoted to smearing Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party had a greater effect on the election results than Brexit and other strategic stumbles in the party. I\u2019m just saying that it definitely had a much greater effect than the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>f<a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/russiagate-elections-interference\/\">ew thousand dollars<\/a><\/strong><\/span> Russian nationals spent on social media memes in the US, which the American political\/media class has been relentlessly shrieking about for three years. To deny that a media smear campaign the size and scope of that directed at Corbyn had an effect is the same as denying that advertising, a <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/towersofzeyron.com\/the-advertising-industry-is-now-worth-1-2-trillion-marketing-in-its-various-forms-continues-to-grow-through-mobile-content-marketing-social-platforms-and-new-digital-platforms\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>trillion-dollar industry<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, has an effect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-selectable-paragraph=\"\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Which means that plutocrats and government agencies indisputably interfered in the British election, to an exponentially greater extent than anything the Russians are even <em>alleged<\/em> to have done. Yet according to British law it was perfectly legal, and according to British society it was perfectly acceptable. It\u2019s perfectly legal and acceptable for powerful individuals to have a vastly greater influence on a purportedly democratic election than any of the ordinary individuals voting in it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-selectable-paragraph=\"\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A free and healthy society would not work this way. A free and healthy society would view all forms of manipulation as taboo and unacceptable. A free and healthy society would not allow the will of members of one small elite class to carry more weight than the will of anyone else. A free and healthy society would give everyone an equal voice at the table, and look after everyone\u2019s concerns. It certainly wouldn\u2019t tolerate a few individuals who already have far too much abusing their power and wealth to obtain even more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8212;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>Thanks for reading! 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