UK politics and Russian money

Russian trolls sent thousands of pro-Leave messages on day of Brexit referendum, Twitter data reveals

www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/10/17/russian-iranian-twitter-trolls-sent-10-million-tweets-fake-news/

One of the leading activists against corruption has told LBC that the UK is failing to act because politics is polluted by dirty Russian money.

www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/james-obrien/uk-political-process-is-polluted-by-dirty-russian/

varian

Russian dirty money is a problem in the EU too. It has been quite a problem for the EU.

I asked this In February on this thread:-

As for the Magnitsky Act at least the UK has adopted it unlike most of the other countries . Am I correct only 6 countries have formally adopted the Magnitsky Act. The EU are debating the subject.

Happy to be corrected!

As for Russian influence over Elections and Referendums I still wonder why the question has not been asked what/if there was significant Russian influence over the U K General Election in 2017. Why not?

If Russia has influenced Elections in other countries such as USA, Germany, France it would follow the UK General Election was a prime candidate especially given the politics of some of our political parties.

That may well be true, nut Russian money has not (at least yet) endangered the EU membership of any other country.

no need to fret it is all harmless, just money helping us out.

i am so relaxed

It may be "helping us out", but Putin is sure to send in an invoice a request at some point to repay him for it. I wonder what the price will be? Not money, he has plenty of that, it'll be our soul.

It's more a case of some people here helping Putin out. His aim is to de-stabilise the west by making the UK leave the EU.

He must be so proud of these brexiters, they're certainly doing their best to help him but , who knows?, he might just be in for as big disappointment.

An opportunity arises from the British Parliament having voted to delay Brexit. If the British government gets approval from the European Union next week for an Article 50 extension, the months ahead should be used to finally get to the truth about the opaque sources of money spent in the 2016 referendum before implementing its results.

www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/use-brexit-delay-to-investigate-russian-money

This will only happen if British politicians and investigators prioritize quickly getting the public more conclusive answers. And it is important because the evidence revealed thus far raises the suggestion that the 2016 referendum on whether the United Kingdom should remain in the EU was targeted by a foreign adversary violating British sovereignty to undermine its democracy.