The Tory government is funding a ‘disinformation’ group that spreads smears about Jeremy Corbyn
The Conservative government is funding a ‘monitoring group’ that’s carrying out disinformation attacks on Jeremy Corbyn and Labour. The foreign office has now admitted providing £1.96m of public money to the Institute for Statecraft’s Integrity Initiative in the 2018/19 year. Military specialists run the unit, which has posted smears about Jeremy Corbyn and his team on social media.
This UK government-funded, bogus McCarthyite "monitoring group" the Integrity Initiative repeatedly smeared Jeremy Corbyn, while it claims to "defend democracy against disinformation."
These are effectively state-sponsored attacks on Corbyn and the left.https://t.co/a5V00Myw6r pic.twitter.com/sUP3C9SJ1I
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) November 27, 2018
Anti-Labour propaganda
The organisation’s official account has tweeted the following quote from an article about Corbyn:
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His open visceral anti-Westernism helped the Kremlin cause, as surely as if he had been secretly peddling Westminster tittle-tattle for money.
A tweet from the organisation also promoted the claim that:
Unlike Galloway [former MP George Galloway] Corbyn does not scream conspiracy, he implies it
Meanwhile, another tweet quoted a further article which read:
It’s time for the Corbyn left to confront its Putin problem.
As well as Corbyn and his supporters, the Integrity Initiative has promoted attacks on the Labour leader’s communications chief, Seumas Milne:
Milne is not a spy – that would be beneath him. But what he has done, wittingly or unwittingly, is work with the Kremlin agenda
The unit also retweeted a journalist who claimed:
Just as he supports the Russian bombardment of Syria, Seumas Milne supported the Russian slaughter of Afghanistan, which resulted in more than a million deaths.
The Integrity Initiative
As The Canary previously reported, the Integrity Initiative’s stated purpose is to reveal and combat pro-Russian “propaganda and disinformation”, while working with UK government departments that “share our aims”. The organisation aims to run through a network of supportive journalists, academics, and prominent figures across the world.
The Integrity Initiative’s spokesperson is Stephen Dalziel – a former BBC journalist of 16 years. Dalziel claimed he was “not aware” of the attacks on Corbyn, his team, or his supporters, and continued:
If it was criticism of one of our politicians, then that shouldn’t be on there.
Dalziel also confirmed the military backgrounds of a number of Integrity Initiative employees, but denied any secret service involvement.
While running austerity budgets for ordinary people, the Conservative government is putting public money into a group that spreads smears against Corbyn and his supporters. And there’s barely a whisper from the mainstream media.
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LINK to post 10.12.2018
Standing Ovation for Keir Starmer After He Tells,
Labour Another Referendum Could Stop Brexit
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Just some home truths + Points from a free voter
To all parties in H.O. Commons before tomorrow
Vote Do not sell our country or voters out to E.U.
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We or the young voter you have already let down,
will not forgive any M.P.+ Minister that votes YES
To C**p withdrawal bill Ms. May put together
(with the backstop in it get rid of backstop!)
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Incompetent Tory Govt!
have trashed all deal from day one
this is “why the country is so divided on this,
matter, Also the Tory party not letting the young vote,
on this matter back in 2016 was a fatal misstate
on their part.
(we could still be in E.U. if the young had voted)
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point
P- 1 you can already stop Brexit
P- 2 you can also revoke article 50
P- 3 you can PEE off all leave voters
P- 4 you can put it to peoples another vote
P- 5 you can also this time include all the young voter
Tory govt STOPPED from voting on this Matter.
P- 6 you must if putting to the people again allow
the young voter to have a say as this E.U. vote
will affects them in the future they will have to live
with the outcome and their kids as well
FINAL point
If vote goes back to the people to vote on!
ALL the young must get a vote the Tory party would,
Not, let vote in 2016 as it concerns them as well now!
What about jail time for the Tories funding a smear campaign financed by the government.