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UK Labour Party Paying Staffers to Campaign for Kamala Harris
Hotair ^ | 10/17/2024 | David Strom

Posted on 10/17/2024 6:35:57 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

The panic on the left is international. 

U.K. Labour, which is collapsing before our eyes a mere few months after winning a massive majority in the Parliament, is engaging in a massive election interference program here in the United States. When Russia spent a few hundred thousand dollars on grossly ineffective ads aimed at stirring up trouble in 2016, the world went wild. 

The ruling party of the United Kingdom is literally sending foreign agents to the United States to help the Kamala Harris campaign. So far nobody is making a stink about it. 

Why on Earth is @UKLabour proactively campaigning for Kamala Harris by flying out & providing accommodation for 100 UK Labour Party members in the USA to campaign for her?

Disgraceful!

Labour government will be a laughing stock in the Trump administration if (likely) he wins.

— Nikki Plummer (@nikki_plummer) October 17, 2024

It's not even clear that this is legal, and it certainly is dangerously stupid. 

There is nothing unusual about foreign governments dabbling in foreign elections. Usually, though, this amounts to making statements supporting one candidate or another, policy shifts intended to put one side in a better light, and providing political advice. It never, as far as I know, includes putting boots on the ground in a desperate attempt to save a floundering candidate. 

Keir Starmer's net approval is now -30, a drop of 49 points since becoming PM in July, in the latest @OpiniumResearch poll.

The lesson here is not to portray yourself as a paragon of virtue when under the surface you’re a corrupt charlatan.

pic.twitter.com/nglLHiJVr5— Chris Rose (@ArchRose90) September 28, 2024

And it's not like Labour has a lot to offer here in the United States. They have managed to become incredibly unpopular in the UK in record time--and even when they won a massive victory earlier in the year, they were hardly that popular. The collapse of the Tories, the rise of Reform, and massive discontent allowed them to win seats in the Parliament with small pluralities, not massive wins in any seats. Their massive victory was powered by the support of only 34% of Britons. 

It's not at all clear what these Labour staffers will be doing here--a bunch of people with British accents will hardly be the tip of the spear when it comes to persuading voters, but they can do vital work in the campaign offices and perhaps work with local officials to handle logistics and similar matters. 

The left is a transnationalist movement, and leftists around the world are deeply invested in the US presidential election. A return to Donald Trump's "America First" policies and victory for the MAGA movement will be a big blow, and Labour, in particular, has a lot to worry about because the US and other anglosphere politics tend to converge over time. 

It would be a mistake to see what is going on as merely a battle between left and right; it's more a battle over nationalism versus transnationalism. A US move away from transnationalism will harm the world elite. Countries like Italy, Poland, Argentina, El Salvador, and other countries that have seen nationalist revivals will be very happy with a Trump victory; countries like the UK, France, Belgium, and Germany will certainly not. 

Is the Labour election interference a move of desperation, or merely an example of how they see the elite as one big happy family without national borders?

Probably a lot of both. It may never have occurred to them that British party officials don't belong in US elections. 



TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: campaign; dnc; election; electioninterference; eurotrash; foreign; foreignagents; interference; kamala; keirstarmer; labor; riggedelection; russiarussiarussia; slimylimies; uk
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To: SeekAndFind

Starmer is much more intelligent and articulate than Harris (low bar, I know), but as red-diaper babies, they have a lot of in common. Pretty amazing that both UK Labor and US Democrat have progeny of Marxist parents as leaders.


21 posted on 10/17/2024 9:31:32 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: bitt; Liz
Ping

22 posted on 10/17/2024 9:36:04 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Bob Wills is still the king

So you have no problem with foreign interference in our elections.
And Brit government is not a friend of America. A list of hostile acts as long as your arm proves it. The most recent was British intelligence providing and pushing the Trump Russia “dossier”.
Friends don’t spy on and lie about candidates in our elections.


23 posted on 10/17/2024 11:13:15 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Trump. Strong. ..
They want someone they can manage..
All other countries are better off when, America is solid and under good government.
The US is not the aggressor, and we serve as a deterrent from trouble.


24 posted on 10/17/2024 11:20:39 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: SeekAndFind

MAGA should publicize this. I’m sure most Americans will just love a foreign political party sending operatives here to campaign for the Democrats.


25 posted on 10/18/2024 2:48:10 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: SeekAndFind

Only update I can find so far...

https://hubliexpress.com/uk-labour-party-faces-backlash-over-us-election-campaign-plans-for-kamala-harris/

Check out this bit...

“.... Past Labour members have supported Democratic candidates before, though no one traveled during the pandemic in 2020. In 2016, over 70 Labour activists campaigned for Hillary Clinton in North Carolina...”


26 posted on 10/18/2024 4:00:40 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mewzilla
Meanwhile, this is from September and the WaPoo...

U.K. Labour strategists advise Harris on winning from the center left After Keir Starmer led the Labour Party to a big win in July’s election, U.K. strategists say they have relevant insights to share with Kamala Harris’s campaign.

27 posted on 10/18/2024 4:03:47 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mewzilla
Now that I'm looking, also from September and the EU Politico...

Kamala Harris campaign told how to win by UK Labour strategist Deborah Mattinson — a fixture of the U.K. polling scene — will travel to Washington D.C. next week to brief the Harris-Walz team.

28 posted on 10/18/2024 4:05:22 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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Get a load of this, also from September...

Harris Campaign Taps UK Labour Strategist for 2024 Push

...It is symbolic of a deepening relationship between the center-left political movements in the U.K. and the U.S., and more particularly between the teams of Harris and Starmer. A number of Starmer’s close advisers, including Labour’s election strategist Morgan McSweeney and Downing Street communications director Matthew Doyle, have recently traveled to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago to meet Harris’s campaign team, Politico said...

29 posted on 10/18/2024 4:07:23 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Update from today. The news has finally made The Times.

Labour sends team to back Kamala Harris in US battleground states The move has sparked outrage from the Republicans with Donald Trump’s ally Elon Musk calling the action illegal

30 posted on 10/18/2024 4:12:47 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: SeekAndFind

How is this not collusion? Find the paper trail. Prison terms are in order.


31 posted on 10/18/2024 4:22:32 AM PDT by Kudsman (Swamp the swamp. Vote right NOW. )
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To: mewzilla

Note to folks in the UK...

Just checked real quick.

In 2023, UK exports to the US were running at about $68 billion.

See where I’m going with this...?


32 posted on 10/18/2024 4:23:20 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mewzilla

And a question for the Russia Russia Russia election interference enemedia...

Cat got yer tongues...?


33 posted on 10/18/2024 5:43:45 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Update...

UK’s Leftist Labour Party Jumping Into U.S. Election To Help Harris

Et tu, Britannia?

34 posted on 10/18/2024 5:50:15 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mewzilla

How is this getting no traction? Al Smith was all yucky fun and wine but time to get serious again. Cutesy time is over.


35 posted on 10/18/2024 5:51:17 AM PDT by Kudsman (Swamp the swamp. Vote right NOW. )
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To: Kudsman

Not a peep about this out of Nigel Farage so far.

I find that...interesting.


36 posted on 10/18/2024 6:00:15 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Remember Russian collusion?

Each one screaming, "Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia!!!!"

37 posted on 10/18/2024 9:25:01 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

BTTT.


38 posted on 10/18/2024 9:32:37 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mewzilla

BTTT.


39 posted on 10/18/2024 3:41:14 PM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Updates. And Farage has finally noticed.

Nigel Farage wades in on Labour sending staff to help Harris campaign in US: 'Direct election interference!'

The Guardian effect: Labour ‘help’ could seal a Trump win History teaches us that when the British Left tries to influence American politics, it goes wrong

Labour can’t help Kamala Harris

Ours isn't the only Deep State freaking out.

Goody.

40 posted on 10/19/2024 5:07:50 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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