The Russian Report

Oh, and this recommendation: “it is nonetheless the Committee’s view that the UK Intelligence Community should produce an analogous assessment of potential Russian interference in the EU referendum and that an unclassified summary of it be published.”

Will it happen?

Well the integrity of our democracy is well and truly trashed, was pretty poor before.

The government didn’t look for any evidence............?

Some of the money being laundered with Tory help.

There is a huge amount more.

What I want to know is who is getting what from it all. Corruption writ large.

Johnson has immediately ruled out the committee's recommendation of review of Russian interference in the referendum.

What a surprise...

George Monbiot
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So all that stuff about sovereignty
About the national interest
About resisting the foreign powers who influence our politics.
... turns out to be total bollocks.

Can you imagine if this had resulted from a Corbyn government.

It just shows what a load of b...........s the Tories talk!

It explains why the report has been kicked into the long grass for so long. Surely there has to be an investigation into this is it just incompetence? So much vested self interest at play.

The report reveals that no one in government knew if Russia interfered in or sought to influence the [Brexit] referendum because they did not want to know"

Stewart Hosie MP says government "actively avoided looking for evidence that Russia interfered"

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James O'Brien

So they didn't investigate alleged Russian intereference in the referendum because they were worried that they might find proof of it. Does that sound right?

I see no ships.

As someone pointed out, it would be up to the Foreign Secretary to order an investigation. Who was Foreign Secretary when this was being mooted?

One A.B.P. Johnson.

(Though I wonder why Theresa May didn't insist on one...)

Better not to ask a question than risk getting an answer you won't like.

Great tactic if you can get away with it.

Wonder what Cummings was actually doing in Russia for those years he was resident?

"Is he afraid it would expose that he & his Vote Leave colleagues were beneficiaries of Russian interference? Are there other connections of cash or kompromat which could embarrass senior figures?"

Does the high potential of Russian interference in referendum make it illegitimate?

Does the high potential of Russian interference in referendum make it illegitimate? Yes

Will it make any difference, will Johnson and Cummings admit it? No

Will the people who voted for this clusterf**k admit they were fools and were lied to? No

Am I angry? No, I am bloody livid that some people, who knew nothing about fisheries/immigration/blue passports/unicorns have landed me and my family in this mess.

Will anyone come on here to defend the Russia report and explain why I should calm down? No, I think the Boris fan club are lying low after the betrayal of the NHS vote.

Cowards - the lot of them.

We also have to ask why the Conservative Party took no action whatsoever when Russia launched a chemical warfare attack on UK soil while Johnson was Foreign Secretary.

The Tory party is a threat to U.K. security

Margaret Hodge
@margarethodge
Russia Report confirms what we already knew. Russian oligarchs have used their dirty money to buy unprecedented power & influence in the UK, all with the support of the Kremlin.

The UK is now the location of choice for dirty money. Our capital is now the "London Laundromat".

Weird isn't it? In the past, I would have trusted a Conservative government to look after British interests on the world stage.

Events over the last couple of weeks have been extremely suspicious. I didn't expect much from the Russia Report, so I'm not that disappointed.

However, I find Cummings' meddling in MI5, MI6, the SAS and Porton Down concerning, as well as the threats to the armed forces. Add to that the attempt to install puppet Grayling as Chair of the ISC and the removal of Mark Sedwill as National Security Advisor and replacement by David Frost, who has no experience of security, and the total incompetence of the Home Secretary. The government is currently advertising for a new civil servant to be in charge of digital vetting of security clearance. I wonder who'll get the contract for that!

Meanwhile, the government is making a total hash of Brexit and Covid-19.

Whitewavemark2

Margaret Hodge
@margarethodge
Russia Report confirms what we already knew. Russian oligarchs have used their dirty money to buy unprecedented power & influence in the UK, all with the support of the Kremlin.

The UK is now the location of choice for dirty money. Our capital is now the "London Laundromat".

And it won't get any better when the UK establishes "free ports", which will be unregulated and magnets for smugglers.

How to turn a once great country into prime bandit territory ...

I was resigned to leaving the EU by what I thought was a democratic vote.
Now I am furious that the Russians may have influenced the vote to go the way they wanted.