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Louise Bagshawe/Mensch, March 2019: “I'm sick of Russian interference in UK politics & sick of Buzzfeed whitewashing it”
Louise Bagshawe/Mensch, Jan 2017: “I noticed Russian bots pushing Brexit but I didn’t want to risk the result by drawing attention to Putin’s love of Brexit.”
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Thing is, even if Slovenia *had* been part of the Soviet bloc during the Cold War (as opposed to part of a country that was a leading light in the Non-Aligned Movement, mixed economy, etc), would *still* have been immensely insulting & a huge gaffe to use the “vassal state” meme.
Can you imagine Hunt going to Estonia and saying that they’ve made fantastic progress considering that 30 years ago they were a “Soviet vassal state”? Less historically inaccurate than saying it in Slovenia but still insensitive, crassly insulting & a horrific diplomatic gaffe.
And that wasn’t the only tin-eared stuff in Hunt’s speech: wow, that smarmy stuff being a “fellow European country” and about Slovenia‘s transformation being “Europe at its best” makes my skin crawl and will have come over as immensely patronising and insincere.
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Question: if we have a new breakaway party that builds on the LibDems’ party machinery but is open to former Labour and Conservative supporters disillusioned with the direction their parties have taken, what should it be called?
Working proposal: One Progressive Liberal Nation

Progressive: hat-tip to what the ex-Labour lot believe in

Liberal: ditto LibDems

One Nation: ditto Tories - no room for One Nation Conservatism in a pro-Brexit party which includes the likes of Dorries, Rosindell & Kawczynski
(I admit it’s a bit of mouthful)
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Eurosluggard🇬🇧🇪🇺
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I’m on a blocking spree. Blocking all sorts with gay abandon: James Cleverly, Jeremy Corbyn, Owen Jones, Rural Conservative Movement, Candace Owens, Steve Hilton, JHB, Jacob Rees-Mogg. Life’s too short.
Forgot to mention James Corden.
Turns out it was some other Tory Brexiter called Hilton that I blocked before, not Steve Hilton. But I’ve made amends by leaving the other one blocked and blocking Steve Hilton as well for good measure.
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Ryan Heath
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#Brexit #thread
1/ If you don’t follow Brexit every day, here’s some advice. Let go of any illusions that this drama is about trade protocols, residency rights or the status of the Irish border. Brexit is the story of a proud former imperial power undergoing a mid-life crisis
2/ The rest of the world is left listening to Britain’s therapy session as they drone on about their ex-spouse, unable to see, admit or address their own flaws.
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So @BorisJohnson has put out his "plan" for #Brexit.

Predictably, it has had holes picked in it - since there are indeed plenty of mighty assumptions in the 'plan'.

But I fear that misses the point. This is a political document, not a technical one. 1/

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/…
@BorisJohnson And when you read it in that light, it becomes rather more persuasive.

Brexit is indeed a muddle and a mess. The British frog is indeed being boiled. Brexit probably always was/is more binary than both sides have properly allowed. /2
@BorisJohnson I am not at all sure Boris is right that Whitehall and the EU conspired to keep the UK in a customs union, for example, but that will be a powerful anti-narrative if that's where we end up.

FWIW my conversations in Europe suggest rather different. /3
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Nick🇬🇧🇪🇺
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Small thread to confidently predict the #Brexit end game. Quite simply there is no other plausible scenario then this..

1/ increasingly clear what will happen with #Brexit. The EU will take the #Chequers deal, tweak it, likely beyond recognition, so it fits them.
2/ ..as there is now no time left for negotiations, May will have little resistance to EU. It will be a Canada+ deal with as many optional extras that prompt payment of £39bn can buy - probably not that much. NIreland will be fudged.

Then the great House of Commons showdown...
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Louise Bagshawe
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Utter bollocks. Missing word?

Russia.

Just to sum up, Russian bots pushed #Brexit over the line and you, their asset, are trying deflection.
So, @chrisinsilico, let’s talk about your company in Canada. Did it run any bots during the Canadian election, or provide targeting data for companies using them? cc @csiscanada
The evidence so far is that @mod_Russia deployed on both sides in Canada, but one side was more heavily targeted than the other.

Tell us about your Canadian company, @chrisinsilico, and what its business was.

Cc @gchq @csiscanada @nsagov @cia @DefenseIntel @uscybercom
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Josh Russell
@josh_emerson
let's go on a #bothunt
You can still find most of these #russian #bots yourself.
And they did retweet during the #UK general election for Labour leader #JeremyCorbyn
thetimes.co.uk/article/expose…
some clues are the date ranges provided and the account types
1st thing we do is check @jeremycorbyn's timeline. He only has 9k tweets so we should be able to get the tweet IDs for that date range(may-june 2017)
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Josh Russell
@josh_emerson
Part 3 of a multi-part look at the bots that tweeted during the #Election2016.
This part features some #Russian bots.
#Bots #TwitterBots #Spam #Tech #Infosec #Putinbot #ActiveMeasures
These bots were found tweeting during the 1st presidential debate 9-27-2016.
1560 total bots
Looks like a few different "networks"
Spreadsheet here if you want to see them for docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…kCMYHjNoUb
During the debates these accounts just re-tweeted everything form one account.
the account used to have a screen name of @Shrympp
The accounts all have the exact same stats, some have their lang set to "en" otherps://t.co/hfdgHCrFP8
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