Stora
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On a side note. Watching politicians 'bumping elbows' while smiling smiling at the cameras is cringeworthy.
On a side note. Watching politicians 'bumping elbows' while smiling smiling at the cameras is cringeworthy.
I don't know maybe it's me. I just get a feeling that they are trying to show that they are 'down with the kids' while it's an obvious staged photo shoot.Why?
Whether one finds this ridiculous or, on the contrary, smiles about it like some of these politicians, probably has a lot to do with one's own cultural imprint.
Physical contact is part of social interaction in some regions in Europe, in other regions many people find it strange ( was surprised to learn that Limburg belongs to these regions, as the "like" of Sid suggests lol)
And that some politicians have fun with this gesture like little boys, I find sympathetic. Times are serious enough and the job of many politicians is especially hard in these times. So let them have this harmless fun
And that's just the Cabinet...The Times reported that 14 cabinet ministers and members of the ISC had taken money from figures linked to Russia.
It listed Brandon Lewis, the Northern Ireland secretary, as having personally received £25,000 from Lubov Chernukhin, a banker and the wife of Mr Putin's former deputy finance minister, and £23,000 from Mr Temerko.
Other cabinet ministers said to have accepted money, either personally or to their constituency branch, from the two Russia-linked individuals include Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, Alok Sharma, the business secretary, and Robert Buckland, the justice secretary.
Well it's no wonder that London's nick name has been Londongrad for quite some time. And of course that money had to be rubbing off somewhere on some Brits...RE: Russian influence on Brexit (and elections). Not only did the PM's chief advisor Dominic Cummings spend 3 years working in Russia (a period about which his own Wikipedia page lacks any detail whatsoever), a load of other Tories benefit from Russian money too :-
It's incredible how the Russians, of all people, are so good at campaigning for things in more democratic societies. Such a shame that the ruling class in America and the UK are not up to the task of out-campaigning Russia. All that education and grooming David Cameron and Hillary Clinton received, and they couldn't handle the overwhelming onslaught of Russian propaganda. Sure, the Russian memes may look silly, obscure, and ineffective, but that's exactly what the Russians want you to believe! If Putin can do all this, it makes one wonder how much of a landslide he would win by in Russia if he ever ran a fair election over there. I guess we will never find out. Putin is so good at democracy, he doesn't even have to run for office any more!RE: Russian influence on Brexit (and elections). Not only did the PM's chief advisor Dominic Cummings spend 3 years working in Russia (a period about which his own Wikipedia page lacks any detail whatsoever), a load of other Tories benefit from Russian money too :-
From today's Independent
And that's just the Cabinet...
Not really. The Russians realised, very early on, the internet's potential to fracture and manipulate public opinion in order to disrupt traditional political debates about the merits of one platform against another and to replace them with shifting and amorphous temporary coalitions of interest groups (often mutually hostile) who can briefly be assembled into a temporary "Putin majority" for a particular candidate on election day.It's incredible how the Russians, of all people, are so good at campaigning for things in more democratic societies. Such a shame that the ruling class in America and the UK are not up to the task of out-campaigning Russia. All that education and grooming David Cameron and Hillary Clinton received, and they couldn't handle the overwhelming onslaught of Russian propaganda. Sure, the Russian memes may look silly, obscure, and ineffective, but that's exactly what the Russians want you to believe! If Putin can do all this, it makes one wonder how much of a landslide he would win by in Russia if he ever ran a fair election over there. I guess we will never find out. Putin is so good at democracy, he doesn't even have to run for office any more!
Documents on UK-US trade talks, leaked ahead of the 2019 general election, were stolen from an email account belonging to Conservative MP Liam Fox, it has emerged.
The papers were published online and used by Labour in the 2019 campaign to claim the NHS would be put at risk.
The UK government has said Russians almost certainly sought to interfere in the election through the documents.