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Lab Dep Lder Tom Watson says "As Home Secretary Theresa May 'declined' a request from security services to investigate Russian influence ahead of the Brexit referendum + Russian agents may still be actively undermining political networks in the UK mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
Theresa May as Home sec set up the National Crime Agency (rivalling SFO) destabilizing fight against moneylaundering and Russian cyberattacks in 2015. Agency was in such dissarray it lost 7 out 17 leaders in its first two years dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3…
In the midst of this in early 2016 a Foreign Office official tells the National Crime Agency to NOT investigate Arron Banks mysterious Russian millions AND NOT investigate potential Russian interference in Brexit telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/2…
Theresa May as Home Secretary crippled UK security services so badly they took their eyes off ball and Russians/Far Right attacked our democracy and got an unlikely Brexit win. It succinctly explains May's refusal to redo the referendum or investigate it.
(April 2016) "A firm co-owned by political strategist, Sir Lynton Crosby, allegedly accepted £45,000 (US$ 64,818) to work for a member of a Russian crime gang implicated in the death of anti-corruption whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky, BuzzFeed said." occrp.org/en/daily/5145-…
(April 16) "Former UK spy Andrew Fulton working as a private investigator for Russian crime gang boss Andrey Pavlov, the gang at heart of Bill Browder's Magnitsky allegations which the NCA is told to ignore" (Russia has insiders in the FCO or in Tories?) thedailybeast.com/former-top-uk-…
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@theresa_may And her many lies: 2016 Brexit is a stunning voter turnout (LIES) 72.2% 2016 (1922 General Election 73%; 1924 77%; 1929 76.3%; 1931 76.4%; 1945 72.8%: 1950 83.8%; 1951 82.6%; 1955 76.8%; 1959 78.7%; 1964 77.1%; 1966 75.8%; 1970: 72%; 1974 Feb 78.8%; 1974 Oct 72.8%
@theresa_may 1979 General Election 76%; 1983 72.7%; 1987 75.3%; 1992 77.7%; ONLY elections since 1997 have dropped below 72.2% in terms of voter turnout...so to claim some kind of 'stunning new voting turnout' that cannot be let down IS TOTAL UTTER CRAP -
@theresa_may Parliament saying 'no to the people's voice in a referendum is without precedence' MORE LIES In 1979 the government rejected a vote where 51.9% VOTED IN FAVOUR of Scottish independence because only 32% of the electorate voted and there was a 40% required threshold
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"What Yandex gets from the deal is ”full access to the social network’s ‘firehose’ of public data” from Facebook users in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and other former Soviet countries, according to a press release." qz.com/166653/why-fac… @peterjukes @PeterKGeoghegan
Russia's Yandex, confirmed it passed confidential data to FSB. Yandex's online payment service gave FSB personal information about users who donated money to an anti-corruption website launched by campaigner Alexey Navalny. bbc.co.uk/news/business-… @peterjukes @PeterKGeoghegan
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@BBCNewsPR @RobBurl @BBCNewsnight ppplleeeasee folks stop dancing on the head of a needle to justify ineptitude. FBSBook said it had banned/stopped use of illicit data in '15. A lie. It said its platform had not been used to influence Brexit initially - a lie. Then slowly but surely truth came out.
@BBCNewsPR @RobBurl @BBCNewsnight FSBook did not 'aid and abet' but if it had not been there no crime would have happened. Its actions in denying any form of responsibility over last 2 years have been at least grossly negligent. Accountability for this NIL. Transparency (until forced) NIL. BBC ignored this
@BBCNewsPR @RobBurl @BBCNewsnight BBC wants others to do its investigative journo work for it and simply serve it on a silver platter. How about looking at Yuri Milner DST Tech (cash comes from Putin's Usmanov) and its in ALL Silicon Valley net platforms. These platforms routinely HAND SOURCE CODE to Russia/FSB
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1) Germany’s Europe Minister @MiRo_SPD tells me #Brexit negotiations have been paused so the U.K. side can ‘go into a huddle’ - and ‘see how far they can go at home’. Mr Roth said the EU was also mulling over if it had any room to manoeuvre on its Irish border position
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Today I was a bystander in a discussion between @OwenJones84 & @JolyonMaugham around tweeting on Vote Leave's illegal spending, which I think is part of a bigger missed opportunity on #Brexit for Labour
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Theresa May has met Caribbean leaders to talk about the treatment of the #windrushgeneration. Yesterday Downing Street refused such a meeting. But she’s changed her mind.
The Daily Mail thinks that was because it told her to. It may well be right.
The Mail has clout. It can change things for the better when it puts its mind to it. This could be described as good #journalism.
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Today’s paper includes a ragout from its Saturday essay, headlined “What an outrage!” (You may have missed it or not realised what it was about – that could be the heading on almost any Saturday essay).
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#Brexit 1
Cadbury moved factory 2 Poland 2011 with EU grant.
Ford Transit moved 2Turkey 2013 with EU grant.
Jaguar Land Rover recently agreed 2 build a new plant in Slovakia with EU grant, owned by Tata, same company who trashed our steel industry & emptied workers pension funds.
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Peugeot closed its Ryton (was Rootes Group) plant and moved production to Slovakia with EU grant.
British Army's new Ajax fighting vehicles to be built in SPAIN using SWEDISH steel at the request of the EU to support jobs in Spain with EU grant, rather than Wales.
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Dyson gone 2 Malaysia, with EU loan. Crown Closures, Bournemouth (Was METAL BOX), gone 2Poland with EU grant,employed 1,200.
M&S manufacturing gone 2far east with EU loan.
Hornby models gone. In fact all toys & models gone from UK along with patents all with EU grants
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I'm currently at this #Brexit conference in Copenhagen, where the British ambassador and several #DExEU officials will be on panels with representatives of Danish trade and security. It'll be very interesting to see what's said, especially in light of May's recent Munich speech.
And now that I'm not desperately trying to keep up with livetweeting it, I shall turn my mess of self-retweets into a proper thread. #Brexit #BrexitDK
acknowledges #Brexit will have challenges; emphasises no naïveté regarding "land of milk and honey". Refreshing sense of pragmatism; we'll see how #DExEU and DK reps present it.

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