UK Elite ‘Horrified’ “Russian Aggression” Fairytale Starts to Crumble – Journo
- UK Elite ‘Horrified’ “Russian Aggression” Fairytale Starts to Crumble – Journo
by https://sputniknews.com/
UK media and parliamentarians have voiced concern over the fact that the UK’s largest online pharmacy, which has links to the NHS, has been ‘caught’ advertising with Russia’s RT television network. Sputnik has discussed another anti-Russia campaign spread in the UK media with political commentator and journalist Ollie Richardson.
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Sputnik: The Telegraph article’s headline says that the company was ‘found’ advertising on a Russian channel. Is this a crime? What is essentially wrong with the company’s business cooperation with RT?
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Ollie Richardson: According to the logic of Westminster, spending UK taxes on financing jihadists in Libya — one of which came to Manchester and committed an act of terrorism in 2017 — is not a crime. So in this respect, the pro-Tory Telegraph is simply fulfilling its regular role of a propagandist outlet. The truth is that even if all UK-registered companies were banned from doing business with Russian state media, Downing Street would find some other nit to pick. Maybe the cleaner of an NHS hospital watched RT once — this would be enough, according to London, to brand her as an “agent of the Kremlin”.
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