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View submission: Suspected Campaign from Russia on Reddit
For context, this is Seamus Milne, Labour's Head of Communications meeting with Putin[1], prior to his current role working for Corbyn.
1: https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/10/31/23/2DFDC9BF00000578-0-image-a-5_1446334019295.jpg
There's so many anti-Tory posts with 10,000s of upvotes on the news subreddits lately anyone outside the UK would think a Labour landslide is inevitable in next weeks election. Most of the comments are straight from the hard-left playbook, all seem to be written with same syntax and sentence structure as well. Maybe I'm just being paranoid?
Comment by Adamsoski at 07/12/2019 at 00:15 UTC
5 upvotes, 1 direct replies
You are being paranoid. The UK population on reddit, particularly on political subreddits, and *especially* the UK redditors who are passionate about politics, is very much more left wing than the UK population in general. It's the exact same for US politics on reddit. Young, tech-savvy 16-28 year olds are maybe the most highly left wing demographic.
Comment by turn_the_heaton at 07/12/2019 at 00:18 UTC
3 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I don't think there is anything malicious going on between the Labour party and the Russians. Voting Labour is currently the only hope of stopping Brexit, which is against Russian interests. In addition, this Conservative government is sitting on a report about Russian interference in UK politics. If it cast Labour in a bad light, there is no chance they would be waiting until after the election to release it.
It just doesn't add up to me. A Labour government would be detrimental to their current ideology. The only way it makes sense is if Russia is continuing to sow the seeds of division in the UK, by any means necessary.
