“Faced with this information warfare, security starts in every home”
Are you a Briton? Are you working class? Are you unhappy? That’s not because of any failings on the part of the failed Labour government, currently on its second puppet prime minister, but because of Russian disinformation.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham delivered his address at the UN, and spent most of his time blasting Russia and Israel, and claiming that the only reason people were unhappy was Russian disinformation, and enlisting everyone in some sort of ‘information war’ likely to involve mass censorship.
Ironically this is exactly the kind of argument Russia has been making for the last century or so.
“There is no national security without a strong, cohesive society,” Burnham told the UN. “Russian agencies have used every means at their disposal to spread lies and disinformation and prey on people’s fears. They’ve used bots and fake websites. Falsified newspaper articles.”
And just in case you might have thought that PM Burnham wasn’t exploiting this to launch a purge of the opposition, the leftist politician added, “They’ve amplified far right narratives.”
“We also know that they have tried to stoke tensions and unrest in the wake of horrific events,” PM Burnham, who helped cover up Muslim sex grooming gangs as Manchester mayor, argued, referring to the Muslim terrorist attacks that his government is covering up.
“Over the last decade we have given too much ground to those who want to run a negative, corrosive narrative about life in Britain, which bears no resemblance to reality. Well, no more. We are going to face the new decade in a different way – with our eyes wide open,” he claimed.
Or rather closed by government order in a country the police arrest thousands of people over online speech.
And here’s where it gets really into 1984 territory.
“And we are going to help our people to strengthen their resilience – because faced with this information warfare, security starts in every home. If you’re struggling with the cost of living and your life is not improving – or if you’re a young person not in employment, education or training – then you are going to be much more vulnerable to this kind of influence,” Burnham claimed, and then announced “a new 10-year Plan for Britain”.
Orwell was not supposed to be a manual, but it seems to be the only manual that the Labour Party has.