Watch out for the Brits under your bed
Volunteer For The Bernie Sanders CampaignOut in the early primary states, a handful of left-wing Brits join the fight for "democratic socialism" in the US.
...Recent university graduate Simon Bracey-Lane took it even further. Originally from Wimbledon in London, he was inspired to rejoin the Labour party in September when Corbyn was elected leader. But by that point, he was already in the US on holiday. So he joined the Sanders campaign, and never left.
"I had two weeks left and some money left, so I thought, strawberry float it, I’ll make some calls for Bernie Sanders," he explains. "I just sort of knew Des Moines was the place, so I just turned up at their HQ, started making phone calls, and then became a fully fledged field organiser."...
https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/wo ... USRTX24Z1SSimon Bracey Lane works at an organisation called "Institute for State Craft":
https://www.statecraft.org.uk/fellowsThe "Institute for Statecraft" and "Integrity Initiative" are both funded by UK government grants
The Institute for Statecraft is an independent, Scottish, charitable body whose work seeks to improve governance and enhance national security. They launched the Integrity Initiative in 2015 to defend democracy against disinformation.
In financial year 2017/18, the FCO funded the Institute for Statecraft's Integrity Initiative £296,500. This financial year, the FCO is funding a further £1,961,000. Both have been funded through grant agreements.
At the Eastern Partnership Summit in November 2017, the Prime Minister announced that the UK Government has committed £100m over five years to tackling this threat internationally.
Such funding furthers our commitment to producing important work to counter disinformation and other malign influence.
https://www.parliament.uk/business/publ ... 27/196177/Integrity Initiative - "Defending Democracy Against Disinformation"
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