Russian actors “sought to interfere” in last winter’s general election by amplifying an illicitly acquired NHS dossier that was seized upon by Labour during the campaign, the foreign secretary has said.
While we're on the subject of foreign interference in the UK's democratic process............
More likely than not you would probably get a shorter list if you named the national elections that Russia haven't tried to interfere in.
no you dont call back isa brainwashed moslems not at all they are not innocent but susetible and can do so again their mental state is easily influenced due to their dangerous ideology which cannot be removed from their brains
Oh for fuks sake give it a rest already. Of course Russia did not seek to interfere in Uk election. The idea is moronic.
COOL so it’s not just america they are fucking with. That’s a relief
Cabinet meeting 🤔
Shouldn't the Headline be 'Government confirm leaked report is authentic and they are negotiating selling the NHS' Stop spinning government lies, the details of the report are what they want hidden. By pushing this nonsense the details of the leaked report remain suppressed
We did they not do proper interference like we used to do.
The british invited everyone to interfere during indyref including Putin, but the failing british media incl The Guardian hardly batted an eyelid!
Might want to look at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue vereses Russia and see who has the capabilities, resources and who benefits the most, certainly not Russia, but Special Relationships always require those little extras.
At least the can admit it.
You are supposed to be the paper that exposes them. Why is the title not 'Tories' feeble attempt to deflect attention from the RussiaReport and the Lewis' story is working with the crap press'? Instead, you chose to be the crap press.
No shit.
I bet they did. I hope that GCHQ gave them their heads to play with.
Fake news!! This story is just part of big game by US Democrats which they lost already.
Deflection
It was pretty obvious at the time that some of the documents Labour used to claim the Tories would sell the NHS had 'fallen off the back of lorry'
'How dare this foreign influence tell the public the truth we worked so hard to hide from them!!!!' *Proceeds to clap furiously for the NHS while denying nurses pay rises and benefits* What a fucking world.
Who helped them I red think BorisJohnson had a team led by DominicCummings hence he has become above the law - issuing contracts to non-existent companies fleecing you and me penny dropping
Yes Prime Minister.
And so it has come to this. Russia has tried to get Canada's data on Covid19 vaccines and attemped to interfere with the election in the UK. If America does not turn arouns soon it will lose its allies we are in danger now too.
russiagate freaks incoming
It is in Russia's interest to have a weak, liberal government in the UK that they can manipulate
Raab is literally helping Corbyn. The funniest thing is Corbyn is the one who amplified the docs right? :D It somehow comes back to him or the deep state. This is gonna be another funny switch, you watch. Raab is actually smart compared to normal media consumers ;)
Hope they retaliate
Can we get Russia to interfere with this White House vs. CDC bullshit?
They now admit it and did nothing about it? That makes them culpable.
Real documents about real harm to the UK by Tory vandals.
The Guardian is doomed
Integrity Initiative anyone ?
Difference between rigging a referendum that led to splitting the country and a massive act of national economic harm, and attempting to rig a GE against a party who went on to win an 80 seat majority.... The only rigging that went on in the GE was in the Tories favour imo
Probably more likely sent thousands of postal votes.
The headline should read 'Mad Scientist Cummings Teaches Pepperami Foreign Secretary How to Distract Public'.
No sheet
Obviously Russia wanted Trump Junior to win because he's just as big an eejit as the US version!
BorisJohnson has something to hide. His refusal to release the RussianReport speaks volumes. In 2016 MI6 confirmed that it saw Johnson as a security risk when he was Foreign Secretary and withheld information from him lest he “blurt it out”.
Of course that’s old news but we are still waiting to read the Russian report
Attempts to evade media attention, bully the BBC, curb the Supreme Court, politicise the civil service, suppress the franchise and crush parliamentary dissent, this is a government that regards itself as 'the people's government' yet behaved as a Russian elective dictatorship.
Yet like the United States you do nothing 😂
So if the Russian Report was published before the 2019 election, the result may have been different. But Boris Johnson suppressed the report for his own benefit. So by conclusion, the 2019 election should be rerun.
Govt says! Russian actors - Dominic Cummings? Leaks were out in the summer 2019 & govt having trouble with maths making spurious allegations (as if fact). As long as laws unenforced on Russian's laundering their money via Tory bribes/ donations....oooh look jeremycorbyn s fault
It's certain that they did interfere. Successfully. Nothing a government minister says should be trusted.
Matt Kennard's expose of the Guardian's collusion with Britain's deep state. See the analysis below. A veneer of often facile gender promotion is not nearly enough to suppress the truth of a determined assault on democracy from within. …
What Johnson/Cummings haven’t learnt yet is that the more the West criticises Russia the more it makes Putin stronger.
Where are the Skripals? Six feet under?
Betting Trump handed them to Putin. Trump wanted Johnson in power. SSDD!
Russia effectively influenced the elections and also the Brexit result. We have had a Coup people!
No shit Sherlock! Is this yet more “we knew this all along” ahead of the ReleaseTheRussiaReport which they’ve been denying as “nothing to see here” for the last four years.
And just like that, Russia is the hot topic again, deflecting from the Government's awful handling of the Coronavirus pandemic. Rather convenient.
They have been doing it to the US. They are doing it to the UK. Blah! Blah! Blah! What's the solution? I know... . Blah! Blah! Blah! You guys might as well learn to cook something spicy and tasty from me. Info in profile.
Russia needs a weak EU & UK. They already have control of Trump. The gammons are falling for it
ukgov dirtyliars trying to deflect from all the money they got donated by russians
Why does anyone have to hack should ever lab cournty not open up all files so some one might find a cure quicker save thousands of lives or is that just me
Russian links with Labour!! 😂😂😂😂
Surprise surprise.... Russia report expected to be embarrassing for BorisJohnson government is finally about to be released... so the government selectively announces some findings to divert attention away...
Never trust the leftwaffe.
ROFL
This story is just a red herring but I'd true, it does mean that JC was right and despite Gov denials the NHS was part of a trade deal with USA.
You are fake news. Here's what REALLY happened:
So did the Guardian with their constant Corbyn bashing
🤣
What total absurd nonsense. Orwellian levels of propaganda from the UK Security Services. They can accuse Russia of ANYTHING however preposterous, and the MSM falls for it.
Leaks some new Sanctions on Russian and Putin. And stop being so afraid. F Russian and Putin.
So the NHS leaked documents that Corbyn had and was laughed at and declared fake by lots of people were real? Who would have guessed?
Nope Israel was much more instrumental, with its agents inside the LP putting out fake smears via the & the disgusting Zionist BBCNews with its continuous editing ‘errors’(?)...
This crap, lying, shite Govmnt trying to get first blow in before Russian report next week, conveniently linking Russian baddies with poor old Labour's election (non-) campaign. 'Oooh, we're on top of this new crisis!' Bollocks!
What is Govt going to do about it? For a start, the Tories could return the money they took from Russian donors.
Ah the leaked dossier that Comrade Corbyn got so excited about. Bet the Russians miss having that clown running the Labour party.
Dead cat. Today’s big story is government did not follow advice of scientists/SAGE. Advised to lockdown week early yet govt ignored that advice, along with other advice. Throws that following the science rhetoric out the window and down the next street.
we fucked ourselves harder than they could have
BorisJohnson at bunga bunga parties up an Italian mountain - with Russian oligarchs - having left police protection unit in UK 'intelligence community had worries about Mr Johnson's ability to keep information confidential.' BBC, 2019 RussiaReport
I mean rupertmurdoch interferes with our election all the time! Let's start by getting rid of undemocratic people and bussiness in the UK first. RupertMurdochisnotdemocracy
Very interesting timing, too much of a coincidence just when they’ve lost control of the release of the RussiaReport
This headline, this is why people won't care when this newspaper disappears. You know fine well what this is about.
Absolutely shocking. How dare they try and subvert British democracy by releasing factual information.
Newsflash: every major government tries to interfere in every major election in any country that supports or opposes it.
You don't say! Are they going to release that report?
Here we go, getting it out there girst!
That old chestnut, really? Looks like our 'Russian actors' had a very unsuccessful mission yet again.
Looks like a move to deflect from Julian Lewis' ascendancy to chair the Intelligence and Security committee. Given the long awaited Russia-Brexit report is likely to be released & embarrass the Tories. Timing is everything with such announcements from the NCSC.
theres old people they voted on behalf of who r being killed off so nobody can validate them & then theres the prev deaths not registered so they could use their votes, now being registered & inflating covid figs to get numbers back to normal FromRussiaWithLove BorisJohnson
Trump called. He wants you guys to call it a hoax.
how is this fucking 'breaking'? been around for ages - even the true version fffs
Anyone can leak documents. The cleaner could do it, if she found one in the bin. Especially ones that don't get paid the living wage, and are only working as cleaners because their arts degrees aren't worth the paper they are written on.
Tried They interfered by posting fake propaganda on Facebook and other social media sites. Some of the richer Russians paid large sums to the Conservative party. All above board I doubt that very much!! It seems like they paid the Tories to let them interfere in UK politics.
Why are they saying this now. We all knew it!
Let’s be honest , they wanted the tories in , and got the tories in.
Yawn. Even if Russia had some kind of paperwork, it influenced nothing. Unless they had a russian operative hovering over every citizen in the polling booth, ordering them to put a X in ? which box... who did they even want to win? Some bits of paperwork had zero effect on us
Couldn't have had 1% of the effect of the phoney antisemitism crisis.
So to lessen the impact of the report highlighting that Russia fixed the brexit vote, government trying to leak out bits in dribbles.
It’s only breaking news because they failed to install the muppet to shut it all down,
This is big news. Not a good sign in terms of Russian meddling. I wonder what documents they were going to leak which would have had such a big impact on the outcome. Whatever it was it's best for Gov to tackle this transparently and head on.
Too much talk. No actions! It's time to teach VladimirPutin a hard lesson for messing with the democracies of other countries. Putin is a sleazy mafia boss with a mission n an agenda that are far worse than those once held dear by Hitler. Fascism
'Duhhh?'
Still banging on about the leaking not the content. British media is staggeringly shite.
pre- emptive strike won't work DominicRaab
wait this is breaking news? Lol
Actors? Hahaha! Their pals i think they mean.
marcuschown Gosh. Now they notice Russia. Funny.
Ha ha ha. US & GB had done a great attack against Russia a few weeks ago. Wag a dog.
And THIS is why the Guardian deserves to go skint.
Guardian here pushing a blatant government bullshit narrative showing why it's laughable to claim its supportive of Labour... 🙄
Curious timing for this announcement by Raab?
Does this mean that these leaked papers were fake? That the NHS wasn't/isn't up for sale by the Tories? That's terrible if Corbyn was showing fake papers that were wrongly accusing the Tories of offering up the NHS to sweeten a trade deal with the USA.
BREAKING: Still-to-be-released Russian report thought to outline details of electoral interference and Tory donors completed *before* the 2019 election that the Tories and sycophant journalists are using as a dead cat.
Trying to control that narrative eh?
So we need the Russians to tell us what is really going on now, such as our NHS being sold off? What a corrupt country we live in!
distraction RussiaReport
Quick Dom lets pick on a minor bit and use it to finger Corbyn and the Labour Party. The plebs will fall for that surely?
Were the contents of the material correct and if so why is it we need Russians to reveal what our Gov is up to and obviously hiding from us? If only we had a free press, perhaps then we wouldn't need a foreign power to interfere
Please explain how come the Telegraph had the leaked report in July 2019, when the election was announced in October 2019? Are you a press spokesperson for Dominic Rabb and passing on smears and lies instead of doing the job of a journalist?
Funny that during the election they tried to deny that the dossier was legitimate but now they’re admitting it was real but under the narrative of Russian interference...
This is complete bollocks, the tories are trying to say the Russians helped labour by leaking a document in regards to UK/US trade deal which corbyn went public with, the document were leaked onto reddit, TORY SPIN BEFORE THE SHIT HITS THE FAN RussiaReport
Dead cat. Russian report is what we want to see.
Therefore it was likely the same happened in Brexit
Wow, Is this a new James Bond movie ?
rhys_maughan maybe your on to something
More misinformation and smoke screens from Cummings. Tories are PANICKING
Hilary Clinton covered up crimes involving attempts to solicit sexual favors from both prostitutes and minor children.
Funny that the Gov is trying to get ahead of this story before Russia Report comes out. They knew exactly what was going on.
BREAKING: Govt asks the public to 'watch this hand' while the other hand goes unnoticed.
Is anyone surprised🙄
This is literally why we've been pestering government to release the report. FFS. Conservatives have already begun their subterfuge, so let's see how it pans out when it's released. ReleaseTheRussianReport ReleaseTheUnredactedRussianReport
Corbyn helping Russia eh?
No shit, I would never have known.
That jeremycorbyn used in his attack on Boris lol but you omit that bit .
This yours DominicRaab ? (Théodore Géricault - Arthive.com)
No shit
They’ve spelled Israel as “Russia” and left out the adverb “successfully”.
So they wanted to leak documents highlighting that the UK govt was lying to the public basically.
Sounds like another distraction to divert are gaze from the sorry state of our politicians
Remind which Party is largely funded by Russian oligarch friends of Putin?
worldwarthree would be the perfect cherry on the 2020 shitcake.
yeah, we know. And they interfered with the Brexit ref. there was a lot about it shortly after.
Next?
First the United States, now United Kingdom... atleast they are taking actions against it instead of saying it's a 'hoax'
WonderfulwomanK Trump always gives Russia green light on anything. He tells them everything!! We are already a republic of Russia!
Why has there never been any investigation into Rep of Ireland financing and using the European Movement to interfere in the Referendum for Remain? 10 times worse than Russia. bbcpm r4today
Sorry this report was ready to be released in Oct 2019! Election was Dec 2019! Wasn’t this meant to be about Russian interference in our referendum? 🙄🙄🙄
The tories aren't slow to ask for help from Russia when they need it.
That sounds similar to the US 2016 elections... At least your dude won't believe Putin/Russia when they say, 'we did no such thing'.
Not comfortable with 'Raab says' being reported as 'UK says'.
Is this news 🤔? Didn’t we all know this? The only thing suspicious here is that Raab is making the statement.
So showing the truth now is called interference.
Govt releases news connecting a leaked report by Russia 2 Jeremycorburn JUST b4 the RussiaReport is released! U know the one that raises questions on 2016 Brexit vote &how THIS Govt may have benefitted from Russian interference just like Trump did in 2016 vs HillaryClinton !
yeah and im the fucking pope lmao
What are the Government trying to divert attention away from now.
Yawn.
UK has never interfered in other countries?
Sought? 👀
Yes because we all voted on the basis of a uk us trade deal
Left wing conspiracy theories again.
Mrs. thatginamiller
Mr. navalny fbkinfo
BestForBritain
tjrheil_np So now the Brit's are crying Russia did it. Will this put C Steele in more hot water?
Of course they did and wasn't it also reported that they influenced Brexit outcome? C'mon at some point you have to stop using Russia as the big bad all the time. lol it's insane that they've become the big bad lol.
Fuckin trump at it again
I mean ths is just a false headline, how is amplifying now leaking, btw im not a Russian bot just someone with common sense lol
Let me guess... they were wishing for BorisJohnson to win. 🧐
Complete bollocks.
Didn't Trump actually come out and declare publicly that he was going to interfere. Are you sure it wasn't Trump interfering?
Are we pretending this is something new?
Hahahahahahhhhhhhhhhahahah “RuSiSsians “ Get a new script
Me seeing this a US citizen
Tried!
tomphillipsin Why don't the Guardian hire MI5 operatives to write their articles for them? Or perhaps they already did. Russia allegedly told the truth about British government's secret dealings, the facts which should have been discovered and publicised by the Fourth Estate (but were not).
'I don't see why it would be Russia...'
The guardian, fake left tory stooges
Lol now do Bolivia
Like Labour party members sabotaging their own party? That kind of interference? Russia UK
The Guardian's interference was almost as bad as Russia though!
aaronjmate 🙄
its only fair - they paid for it after all ;-)
Does this mean that we should rerun both the last election and the referendum now that we know that they where interfered with by outside sources ?
this pure and willful idiocy
Russiagate BS all over again
Russia still think they are in the Cold War killing their own citizens on British soil now fucking about trying to hack our vaccinations is it about time we declare war ? I mean that’s what you normally do when people start messing about it’s the only thing that stops em messing
Shocking development - in other breaking news, water is wet, the sky is blue, and politicians don't give a shit about us.
Look who's leaking now!?
Machiavelli wrote The Prince (Il Principe). Putin did not write his own book, but he studied KGB manual. Both of these books based on the same principal 'Divide & Conquer'. Putin just used new technologies like Internet, which were not known at the time of Machiavelli.
alexzfinley This playbook continues to work.....
Elections are faker than WWE Wrestling these days
Honest question: has Russia ever not tried to destabilize a country? Name a country Russia has not tried to destabilize the internal politics of? Russia larger, everyone else smaller, with intent to splinter any and all existing political structures, is historical record AFAIK.
This is bull shit.... i wonder if we will really get to see the report on ots entirety? 🤨
Just like England ‘interfered’ in the Scottish independence vote.
These are the dumbasses begging for sympathy while running cover for this corrupt government in Putin's pay Hey Guardian
Anyone have the balls to stand up to Putin? Anyone? Anyone at all? A foreign country blatantly interferes in our democracy and nothing is done? Not to mention the successful bounty they put on UK troops in Afganistan. BoJo is no better than Trump. Embarrassing and infuriating.
And exactly how long have they known this? Wonder why they want it on the agenda now? 🤔 What possible reason could they have? 🇷🇺 📝
wouldn't it be great if they held another election..like immediately, then we could chase this immoral corrupt criminal lying murdering govt from office.
Govt spin. Trying to get ahead of aqusation that if Brexit vote is in doubt [post Russia Report next week] then so is the 2019 election. Which it clearly is! If you’re watching, Cummings is leaving a breadcrumb trail 6 lanes wide here.
... total deflection strategy, the russia report due to be released shortly was concluded prior to the 2019 election.
Conservatives did nothing but lie through their teeth during the elections. If indeed this NHS dossier was amplified by the Russians, than they did us a huge service. Otherwise by now our stooge PM would have sold the NHS to the US by now.
Are we surprised...
In that case we need to work out how to prevent this from happening again and have a GeneralElection
Wiki Leaks leaked the Documents.
Except there is no proof of that and the Guardian Knows that nobody in intel has examined that Computer.
It’s long overdue that people see what happened in 2016 and 2018-2019 in the US and UK. AllRoadsLeadsToPutin
SeanWMurray Trump should condemn Putin any minute now
Can you imagine how different the headlines would have been had it been the Russians trying to help the government and not the other way around.
BS newz £& daUk
Lies 🤥
when the government fucks up, blame russia
The spin is hilarious. Bojo and Cummings are both funded by Russia. The Russia report would show this except for Cummings using it for Sharpie art. Now it just shows black rectangles.
I would be more surprised if they hadn't tried too,all countries try and influence the elections of there rivalries to get either weak leaders or leaders who sympathetic to them in power. We almost certainly get involved in Russian elections.
If the Russians sought to 'interfere' in our democracy by exposing truths that one party unethically sought to hide from the electorate, that's not undermining our democracy. Don't let the Tories spin the story.
Surprising - No one.
Dead cat.
jason_kint So you guys got caught...... Putin’s efforts only work if they get people to help him like boris
A50Challenge Hardly breaking as we already knew this. Blatant distraction.
A50Challenge Wasn't the Russia report finished before December 2019?
The Guardian reports it was 'innocently spotted' by a left wing pressure group and passed to Corbyn. Hilarious...nothing to see here
This feels like the UK govt’s attempt to get ahead of the stuff that could come out when the actual long awaited report into interference, including of the EU referendum comes out
Deflection from the ISC Russia report being published tomorrow. So transparent and typically ham-fisted.
For labour's benefit of course Communists stick together It didn't help them thougj
Tory government going into damage limitation mode.
What Russia has been doing is not foreign to Russia.
In one week Boris government tells me ii will force me to cover my face and now wants to pursue this Russia bullshit. Where can we go from here? 🤷🏻♂️
I am a fan of the truth, no matter who 'Leaks' it.
This is clearly a prebuttal by an extremely nervous pair of Russophiles called Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings, ahead of next week's long-awaited release of the RussiaReport.
Well I, for one, am SHOCKED
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...so how long have they known about this and 2016 ... but they're releasing this today ...and saying they were trying to help Labour... Seriously this lot really don't think much of the folk that voted from them for the first time!! 🤔 ToryLies ToryCorruption RussiaReport
They ain't even pretending anymore! Look here, look at this dead cat of whataboutery I've just produced....look at it, LOOK AT IT
Coincidence that this is announced the day after Boris failed to get his stooge Failing Grayling elected as Chair of the Committee that controls the release of the Russia Report
Dah.
Breaking: Hours after learning the Russia Report they suppressed will be published, the Tories try to paint themselves as victims
Journalists knew of the document's existence for some time...prior to it even being used by Labour at Corbyn and Starmer's press con. It apparently wasn't a secret it existed.
BREAKING: UK interfered in elections in 2018 and have ALWAYS raped the natural resources and economy of Brasil - and many other countries. REPARATIONS
Why is Russia always trying to interfere with elections everywhere?
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