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Parliament to Debate Israeli Influence in UK Politics After 116k Sign Petition

23d 4h ago by leminal.space/u/okwithmydecay in uk_politics@feddit.uk from novaramedia.com

I wonder which side will win that debate... Labour Friends of Israel or Conservative Friends of Israel.

Guaranteed to be a 'we investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong' outcome.

The debate will likely end up asking why there are 116k anti-semites bold enough to demand this.

The single most influential individual in UK Politics is actually a foreigner.

Sir John said he was advised before the election that he “ought to try to make some effort to get closer to the Murdoch press and I agreed that I would write Mr Murdoch to dinner”.

He added: “In the dinner it became apparent in discussion that Mr Murdoch said that he really didn’t like our European policies… and he wished me to change our European policies.

“It is not very often someone sits in front of a prime minister and says, ‘I would like you to change your policy and if you do not change your policy our organisation cannot support you’.”

https://www.channel4.com/news/major-denies-sun-editor-abused-him-after-black-wednesday

This was the headline of Murdoch's Sun right before the Brexit Referendum :

(She never said any of this).

To quote UKIP's leader Nigel Farage:

"Without Rupert Murdoch, there would have been no Brexit"

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/q01pMCUmQxQ

This dude is openly threatening the Prime Minister and spreading fake news.

People are concerned about russian, indian, saudi, chinese influence depending on their politics. Foreign interference is actually happening right under their nose.

It's just that no one cares because Rupert Murdoch is Australian.

Has anybody ever heard of anything actually happening with these petitions? I am not completely sure but think it gets debated by a specific sub committee rather than what you imagine where its in the full house chamber. The transcripts will be available but in the end the response will be something like: checks and rules are already in place so we don't see any issue (but written out to a few hundred words)

I think I've signed 2. One was about the Online "Safety" Act, which obviously had nothing happen off the back of it.

The other was to do with political donations. This one as far as I can tell had a couple of things come from it:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/707189#main-content

And even if nothing came from it, it was interesting to follow. It was a couple of years ago now but I think I recall they were talking about Russia's influence with Brexit.

Sadly the corrupt are just going to find loopholes, like receiving a £5 million personal donation to pay for their security...

Its usually a westminster hall debate, and no they almost never do anything.