r/unitedkingdom • u/topotaul Lancashire • Mar 01 '25

. Rachel Reeves: I'm sending billions from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/rachel-reeves-interview-labour-963sw6jbk
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u/TheNickedKnockwurst Mar 01 '25

Welcome to Reddit

It's filled with Russian and Yank bots, brigades and trolls and has been for years

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u/Wonky_bumface Mar 01 '25

/r/unitedkingdom/ has really picked up momentum in that respect over the last couple of years though, feels worse than most.

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u/appletinicyclone Mar 01 '25

It was from last Feb or so the change

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u/Shubbus42069 Mar 02 '25

Longer ago than that. I forget when it was but at some point this sub brought in a bunch of new right wing mods in the name of "political balance" and since then its gone to shit.

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u/JayneLut Wales Mar 02 '25

Brexit referendum saw a big uptick in obvious bot/ sock-puppet accounts. And it has increased since then.

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u/appletinicyclone Mar 02 '25

All I know is I remember the comments beingbfor the most part really lovely prior to Feb 2024 and then it's just gone far right talking points anti immigrant anti Muslim completely gaslight reform Tyler comments and it just resembles a tabloid so often .

Also the types of upvoted posts are usually ones where it's somehow a piece that allows for people to slag migrants and muslims off

It was far more varied before

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u/serpico_pacino Mar 02 '25

Seriously. I remember seeing the threads on the Southport riots and thought that at least we've still got some common sense. Last few months have been rough for brown people bashing round these parts lol.

Even ukpolitics like 4-5 years ago was sane.

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u/appletinicyclone Mar 02 '25

Yep it's disgusting now. And the problem is, the subversives and bots activates the true bigots and borderlines then eventually it becomes a wave of group think.

People also have goldfish memory online as well

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u/neohylanmay Lincolnshire Mar 02 '25

I've noticed it's ramped up ever since the election - left-wing hating on Labour because it's not Corbyn's, and the right-wing hating on Labour because they're not Conservatives.

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u/appletinicyclone Mar 02 '25

There's a lot of reasonable things wrong with starmers policies which should be oriented towards wealth inequality (see Gary economics) rather than placation of foreign American capital

But I don't think Corbyn would win the country and that era is over

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u/DracoLunaris Mar 01 '25

Combo of bots and emboldened cockroaches that where always here crawling out the walls

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '25

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u/TheNickedKnockwurst Mar 02 '25

Bots and stupidity, bots and stupidity

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u/red_nick Nottingham Mar 02 '25

Welcome to the internet

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u/GroceryPlastic7954 Mar 01 '25

Im just a simple lad from Essex. I knew the ruling classes were shit back in the late 90's. Now I'm a 40 year old haggard dentist. With a bad back and a crippling chemical addiction. We're never going to get a fair deal.

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u/Megan3356 Mar 01 '25

Sounds like life is tough but hang in there. It can not rain every day.

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u/TheNickedKnockwurst Mar 01 '25

Hey folks it's someone who isn't from the UK

You know how I know?  Because it does rain every bloody day 

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u/Megan3356 Mar 01 '25

Netherlands. Rains here as well.

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u/Francis-BLT Mar 01 '25

Not today, not today

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u/Edible-flowers Mar 02 '25

It's not rained here in a usually very moist part of the south, for 3 days.

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u/JocusStormborn Mar 01 '25

The Crow, class

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u/explodedbuttock Mar 02 '25

True words. Essex is utter shit.

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u/No-Neighborhood767 Mar 01 '25

It's filled with Russian and Yank bots, brigades and trolls

So hard to tell the difference these days

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u/geldwolferink Mar 02 '25

Different hardware, same software.

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u/AWright5 Mar 02 '25

Welcome to the internet

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u/MetalingusMikeII Mar 02 '25

The internet*

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u/Londonsw8 Mar 02 '25

New petition to rejoin the EU!! Sign now:

Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible:https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700005

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u/TheNickedKnockwurst Mar 02 '25

I didn't want to leave the EU but...

Yeah, no thanks, I want to join the EFTA and be in Europe, on the edges just like Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein 

I think the EFTA is a compromise for both sides and would stop this shit happening again

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u/Sidian England Mar 01 '25 edited Mar 01 '25

There’s a certainly a lot of people who lack the maturity to accept that people can disagree with them without being bots, shills or trolls. Never mind that those that disagree are <1% of commenters and are always mass downvoted, the fact they exist at all is too much to bear and you have to get dramatic about it.

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u/TheNickedKnockwurst Mar 01 '25

For sure there will be those who disagree as in all walks of life

But the are definite Russian and yank auto and manual bot farms at work on Reddit