Someone Interfered In The United Kingdom Election, And It Was Not Russia by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2019-12-13 at 00:31:14 )

Someone Interfered In The United Kingdom Election, And It Was Not Russia by Ms Caitlin Johnstone

Ladies and gentlemen I have here at my fingertips indisputable proof that egregious election meddling took place in the United Kingdom on Thursday.

Before you get all excited, no, it was not the Russians.

It was not the Chinese, the Iranians, Cobra Command or the Legion of Doom.

I am not going to get any Rachel Maddow-sized paychecks for revealing this evidence to you, nor am I going to draw in millions of credulous viewers waiting with bated breath for a bombshell revelation of an international conspiracy that will invalidate the results of the election.

In fact, hardly anyone will even care.

Hardly anyone will care because this election interference has been happening right out in the open, and was perfectly legal. And nobody will suffer any consequences for it.

Nobody will suffer any consequences for interfering in the United Kingdom election because the ones doing the interfering were extremely powerful, and that is who the system is built to serve.

As of this writing British exit polls are indicating a landslide victory for the Tories. Numerous other factors went into this result, including most notably a Labour Party ambivalently straddling an irreconcilable divide on the issue of Brexit, but it is also undeniable that the election was affected by a political smear campaign that was entirely unprecedented in scale and vitriol in the history of western democracy.

This smear campaign was driven by billionaire-controlled media outlets, along with intelligence and military agencies, as well as state media like the BBC.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been described as the most smeared politician in history, and this is a fair description.

Journalist Matt Kennard recently compiled documentation of dozens of incidents in which former and current spooks and military officials collaborated with plutocratic media institutions to portray Mr. Corbyn as a threat to national security.

Journalistic accountability advocates like Media Lens and Jonathan Cook have been working for years to compile evidence of the mass medias attempts to paint Mr. Corbyn as everything from a terrorist sympathizer to a Communist to a Russian asset to an IRA supporter to a closet antisemite.

Just the other day The Grayzone documented how establishment narrative manager Ben Nimmo was enlisted to unilaterally target Mr. Corbyn with a fact-free Russiagate-style conspiracy theory in the lead-up to the election, a psyop that was uncritically circulated by both right-wing outlets like The Telegraph as well as ostensibly "left"-wing outlets like The Guardian.

Just as Mr. Corbyns advocacy for the many over the plutocratic few saw him targeted by billionaire media outlets, his view of Palestinians as human beings saw him targeted by the imperialist Israel lobby as exposed in the Al Jazeera documentary The Lobby.

For a mountain of links refuting the bogus antisemitism smear directed at Mr. Corbyn, a lifelong opponent of antisemitism, check out the deluge of responses to this query I made on Twitter the other day.

This interference continued right up into the day before the election, with the BBCs political editor Laura Kuenssberg flagrantly violating election rules by reporting that early postal votes had been illegally tallied and results were "looking very grim for Labour".

The historically unprecedented smear campaign that was directed at Mr. Corbyn from the right, the far-right, and from within his own party had an effect.

Of course it did.

If you say this today on social media you will get a ton of comments telling you you are wrong, telling you every vote against Labour was exclusively due to the British people not wanting to live in a Marxist dystopia, telling you it was exclusively because of Brexit, totally denying any possibility that the years of deceitful mass media narrative management that British consciousness was pummelled with day in and day out prior to the election had any impact whatsoever upon its results.

Right. Sure guys.

Persistent campaigns to deliberately manipulate peoples minds using mass media has no effect on their decisions at all. I guess that is why that whole "advertising" fad never made any money.

I am not claiming here that the billions of dollars worth of free mass media reporting that was devoted to smearing Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party had a greater effect on the election results than Brexit and other strategic stumbles in the party.

I am just saying that it definitely had a much greater effect than the few thousand dollars Russian nationals spent on social media memes in the United States, which the American political-media class has been relentlessly shrieking about for three years.

To deny that a media smear campaign the size and scope of that directed at Mr. Corbyn had an effect is the same as denying that advertising, a trillion-dollar industry, has an effect.

Which means that plutocrats and government agencies indisputably interfered in the British election, to an exponentially greater extent than anything the Russians are even alleged to have done.

Yet according to British law it was perfectly legal, and according to British society it was perfectly acceptable.

It is perfectly legal and acceptable for powerful individuals to have a vastly greater influence on a purportedly democratic election than any of the ordinary individuals voting in it.

A free and healthy society would not work this way.

A free and healthy society would view all forms of manipulation as taboo and unacceptable.

A free and healthy society would not allow the will of members of one small elite class to carry more weight than the will of anyone else.

A free and healthy society would give everyone an equal voice at the table, and look after everyones concerns.

It certainly would not tolerate a few individuals who already have far too much abusing their power and wealth to obtain even more.

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