Well, so far, in order to make the Leave campaign look bad, the Remain side have - among other things - conspired to have a politician murdered,
Could be a lone nut - but I doubt that this murder would have been orchestrated by any UK anti-EU organisation or condoned. It would be monumentally suicidal to the cause. Killing is bad enough, killing a woman is unforgivable and killing a youngish fairly attractive woman is evidence of demonic possession!!!! IF someone were to calculate an attack that would trigger very strong emotions (and it's hard to think while having very strong emotions) and paint an opposing side with a very black brush, this is the kind of thing that they would do. It's a case of the story being TOO good. The anti-side knows this as well and if they had any knowledge of what was about to happen it would never have been allowed.
All I've heard so far about the guy is that he was a loner (typical) that nobody knew much about - not much in the way of social connections - typical kind of profile for these spontaneous individual crimes but also the typical profile for a patsy or a manchurean candidate - someone who could be manipulated into doing something crazy. We know that he has been involved to some extent with right wing groups, it appears that he was known to the FBI and that the FBI had worked in the UK to arrange meetings of far right groups, we know that far right groups were used to overthrow the government in Kiev and it's pretty clear that the US government was working with those groups through funding from the state department, with direct political involvement from the US political classes and it's almost certain that they had intelligence agents embedded.
I would be surprised if all of the white supremicist and far right groups were not riddled with British and American intelligence agents. All of the environmental and peace groups were and the US president appealed directly to the UK citizens to reject the Brexit - I would not be surprised if this plea was in line with the strategic interests of the US - strategically for the remain side it is not a bad thing if a right wing loner kills an nice young lady MP. It would be a cold calculation but by equally cold calculations millions of women and children (and the ever expendable men) are killed for geo-strategic interests.
If this DOES say anything about the right, it says that they had no idea who this guy was or what he was going to do.
have a story planted that the murderer shouted something and have also managed to orchestrate a general upturn in racist incidents and not-small-minded-xenophobia
Planting the story or having him say it - I think it has become clear that he said it. What is interesting is that the guy is still alive and was captured. That sort of lose end would not have been allowed in the US.
so I suppose the anti-Polish stuff (including the ambassador) must be part of that same conspiracy.
The reason why I asked you if you were being ironic is that you seemed to imply that ambassadors aren't actually instruments of their governments. The Polish ambassador is not a free agent, and Poland has its own objectives and opinions about the EU (and NATO) - which does not necessarily align with the interests of the Polish people, of course, but that is generally true of the corporate entities we call states and their subjects. The anti-Polish notes with translation in Polish on the back is just a bit too respectful and convenient for the type of louts I would expect to do these sorts of things. The Poles in England would start to pick up English or know other expats who had acquired some English and so could get the gist of the note without the presumably uneducated louts having to go to the trouble of translating the message for them. That's why I wondered if it was just a crappy Google translate. However, to play to the crowd back in Poland a translation on the note would be gold.
Poland is currently a key player in the US war on Russia.
Poland is holding the NATO summit this July (8-9) in Warsaw - to really thumb the nose at the old Warsaw Pact. Poland has already hosted a major
American willy waving session aimed at intimidating Russia. Poland is also suffering from some unwanted democracy at the moment which has caused them to
vote for the wrong government which has been a
cting a bit
anti-EU-
ish.
Poland is extremely important to the US for its location, but together with the UK they have been strong proponents of Russian sanctions while other EU countries are faltering because it's costing them. As a message to the British public that the Leave side is a bunch of xenophobes only and as a message to the Polish crowd that the EU would look out for their interests and that Leavers are bad people I wouldn't say that this conveniently pre-translated leaflet is not an unfortunate development for the political classes and it is so easy to arrange.
All news organizations will provide their own viewpoint and I'm sure the "it's all a bunch of racists" viewpoint will be front and center (along with the "we want to stay in because we are nice people in favour of nice things and we aren't a bunch of racists") and everyone will know that it's racists who want out but very few people will know who those bigots are, they will just know that they know those kinds of people are out there - though any of their friends who voted leave will have done it for other reasons.
I fear that in a short while anyone who voted leave will just be shouted at as if they were racists even if they had other reasons to - because that's what social justice is for.
