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Separately, the UK Conservative government has recently been criticised for not publishing a report on Russian interference in the UK, which several sources claim was ready to launch shortly before the election campaign began. Some have suggested this is because they thought it might suggest Russia backed the Leave campaign, others because it might show the UK government were lax on Russian dirty money entering the UK, and that some of that was donated to the Conservative party.
It's not an if, they most certainly funded some of the leave campaign. Russia has similar campaigns in the US such as CalExit, Texit, etc. and others abroad. Failing to publish Russian electoral influence and money corrupting British elections is covering the issue up and speaks that they'd rather secure power than elections.
Whilst Russia are almost certainly pro-Brexit, given how helpful this leak has been to the opposition Labour party, I don't think they do want the governing Conservative party to win the current election campaign
This is an odd way to phrase this, what part of England are you from?
On the other hand, there are quite a few reasons that Russia might prefer Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn:
Those are concerning points with Corbyn but you're whitewashing the UK Conservative party by claiming Russia doesn't want them. It's a bait and switch argument. If they're for Brexit and destroying NHS (which Conservatives are), they're incredibly useful idiots to Putin's agenda.
Comment by PoliticsAside at 07/12/2019 at 00:55 UTC
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California independence has been a movement for literally decades. Texas has considered themselves an independent nation since it existed. Not everything is “Russia.” They definitely sow discord, but these are not significant targets.