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Cultivating conspiracy: how Boris Johnson amplified the far right
The Guardian ^ | 2/8/2022 | Dan Sabbagh

Posted on 02/08/2022 4:14:37 PM PST by Nextrush

Prime minister follows Donald Trump playbook by tacitly endorsing wild conspiracy theory to score points

What started out as a conspiracy theory meme on the outer reaches of the internet has, with the help of Boris Johnson, swiftly established itself amid the cocktail of ideas and conspiracies that define the new extreme right.

The protesters who surrounded Keir Starmer on Monday night mostly shouted the word "traitor"-once a term of abuse against pro-EU MP's during the Brexit crisis-as well as "paedophile protector", a reference to false claims about the Labor leaders links to the Jimmy Savile case.

The amalgam of thinking draws in anti-lockdown, anti-vaccine tropes, which police believe has created a fertile space for conspiracist ideas to circulate widely during the two long years of the pandemic-with uncertain consequences...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: borisjohnson; carriejohnson; covid; deepstate; donaldtrump; putinlovertrollsonfr; unitedkingdom; vaccinemandate; vaccinepassport
Boris Johnson is not someone I usually cheer on but it looks like his move against COVID restrictions has triggered a reaction from within the "Deep State" of the UK.

He and his wife Carrie getting the excrement tossed at them.

Johnson is blamed because the Labor Party leader Sir Keir Starmer got heckled the other day for not being on the side of working people anymore and covering for a pedophile the late Jimmy Savile.

1 posted on 02/08/2022 4:14:37 PM PST by Nextrush
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To: Nextrush

Jimmy Seville was on TV for decades. It is not just Labour that ignored him. Boris was still on target about this.


2 posted on 02/08/2022 4:25:32 PM PST by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
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To: Fai Mao
Jimmy Seville was on TV for decades.

Johnny Rotten was the only one who had the guts to speak out.

3 posted on 02/08/2022 4:26:17 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Nextrush

For Heavens sake Johnson isn’t far right. He’s not even a conservative.
After all, he was Mayor of Liberal London. How conservative can u be to
be elected Mayor of London?


4 posted on 02/08/2022 6:42:38 PM PST by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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To: tennmountainman

I think there’s a coup to take him out and it seems to be linked to his lifting COVID mandates.

There’s plenty of other stuff like Russia and Ukraine and all that but who do they want to replace him?

Chairman Mao or Karl Marx...sarc

Maybe the country has been compromised by Chinese agents doing pushback for Russia????


5 posted on 02/08/2022 7:46:11 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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