Comments by "ozzie2612" (@ozzie2612) on "Lib Dem leader Ed Davey: the UK needs to do more to help Ukrainian refugees | LBC" video.
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@Tom On 17 October 2019, the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament delivered to the Government "The Russia report" into allegations of Russian interference in British politics, including alleged Russian interference in the referendum.[70][39] The government (led by Prime Minister Boris Johnson), which formally has authority to control the timing of its release to the public, refused to do so before the 2019 United Kingdom general election in December.[71] A number of legal actions tried to force the government to publish it.[72] In November, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism started a crowdfunding exercise to raise funds for legal action to force the British government to release the report.[73] In July 2020 the report was released by the ISC led by chairman Julian Lewis MP [5]
The report said the government “had not seen or sought evidence of successful interference in UK democratic processes,” and an official UK government response said: “We have seen no evidence of successful interference in the EU referendum.”[5]
The report also stated that the government had made minimal effort to investigate potential Russian interference into the Brexit referendum other than consulting open-source commentary.[5] The report discussed more broadly Russian interference in British politics, including an extensive "laundromat" of Russian investment into the United Kingdom often connected to the Russian state and the Putin-linked elite.[74][75] It discussed the likely effect on politics and that many members of the House of Lords have business interests in Russia.[75] The report stated that no government ministry took significant interest or specific responsibility in investigation, and that the British intelligence community believed election integrity was not a major focus.[75] It stated the presence of Russian intelligence in the UK is significant and poses a risk to Russian expatriates who criticise Putin.[76]
The report describes the United Kingdom as one of Russia's "top targets" and said it is "seen as central to the Western anti-Russian lobby".[77]
In September 2020, the Electoral Commission raised concerns about Russia-linked donations to the Tories that occurred prior to the Brexit referendum.[78][79] In October 2021, the Pandora Papers revealed more information about the potentially Kremlin-linked donations and multiple others
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@Tom Talking about the UK Government, Mr Nicholson wrote: "Pity they did not think that super wealthy foreign nationals, oligarchs, sheikhs and states owning our football clubs and much of the infrastructure and utilities of this country was actually surrendering our nation to powers who do not have our best interests at heart.
"Vladimir Putin wanted to destabilise and weaken the EU and he used Brexit and Donald Trump to do it.
"It made Putin’s self-belief stronger.
"Look at how he could manipulate the western fools.
"Now look where that has led.
Russia: Many previously claimed that Putin had a hand in influencing the Brexit vote
Russia: Many previously claimed that Putin had a hand in influencing the Brexit vote
Others too have pointed at Brexit as being one of the factors in Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Marcus Chown, an author, told his nearly 50,000 Twitter followers that there was a direct link between the two things.
He said: "Unfortunately, a vote for Brexit was a vote for Putin to invade Ukraine because it weakened the Western alliance and emboldened Putin.
"Putin’s people engineered this by bankrolling the Conservative Party and the Brexit campaign, which is why Johnson has hidden the Russia Report."
That report, a 50-page document from Parliament’s Intelligence and Security committee, was published in July 2020 and was widely criticised for being heavily redacted.
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