Not this again.
Russiagate played out slightly differently in the UK than it did in America. Here the symbol of a peasant uprising that needed to be put down was Trump’s victory while in the UK it was Brexit. Our political establishment really contracted Russiagate from the UK Labour Party, which the Trump administration has yet to hold accountable for its malicious election interference in two elections, and it’s no coincidence that Patient Zero was a former British secret agent commissioned by the Clinton camp to invent Russiagate.
That’s the context in which to understand Prime Minister Burnham’s insistence that Russia was responsible for Brexit.
Moscow was more keen on Brexit than on Trump (he hasn’t exactly been good for Russia which is one reason that Russia Firsters like Tucker Carlson have been going crazy), but using the Russians to delegitimize the will of the people was the kind of thing that the Russians themselves had been doing forever and allowed the security services to treat Trump and Brexit supporters like foreign enemies.
Despite opposing Brexit tooth and nail, Labourites officially remain committed to it because it had majority public support. Obviously that’s as insincere as their commitment to policing the borders and free speech. PM Burnham’s comments portend not only the dismantling of Brexit, but the weaponization of the security services against its supporters by a government busy pandering to China and every Muslim terror state in the world.