May: UK will retaliate over Russian meddling in British elections

Prime Minister Theresa May told Russian President Vladimir Putin that Britain was ready to fight back against attempts to destabilize Western democracy that she said included “meddling in elections.”

“We know what you are doing,” May said in a section of a foreign-policy speech in London late Monday that she addressed to Russia. “And you will not succeed. Because you underestimate the resilience of our democracies, the enduring attraction of free and open societies, and the commitment of Western nations to the alliances that bind us.”

Her comments mark a division with U.S. Fake President Trump, who said Saturday that he believed Putin’s denials of election-meddling were sincere. May took a far harder line, saying Russia was “chief among those” who tried to undermine open societies. She listed not just Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea, but its fomentation of conflict in southeastern Ukraine, its violations of European airspace, and “a sustained campaign of cyber espionage and disruption.”


At the start of November, Britain’s Electoral Commission announced an investigation into Arron Banks, a millionaire insurance entrepreneur who funded campaigns in the 2016 referendum on leaving the European Union. The move followed calls by lawmakers for a probe into whether “dark money’’ played a role in the vote. Foreign governments such as Russia and China may have been responsible for a crash in the voter registration website in the weeks before the referendum, according to a parliamentary committee.

The prime minister said that a good Brexit deal would help to underpin Europe’s commitment to free societies, but said that the U.K. was “unconditionally committed to maintaining Europe’s security.”

Vicar of Dibley (vod) wrote:Think Theresa May needs to resign she is useless and is kissing ass and making enemies of the wrong people .

I'd vote Leave time and again - I know many now who votes remain that would now vote leave because of the spite and awkwardness from the EU muppets .

Jacob Rees Mogg should be Prime Minister he believes in our country and he wants to be free from the EU unlike Theresa May who was remain .

smelly-bandit wrote:Retaliate??

I assume she will get round to it once she is done getting  gang raped by the EU??

Yeah sure retaliate

Ben Reilly wrote:

smelly-bandit wrote:Retaliate??

I assume she will get round to it once she is done getting  gang raped by the EU??

Yeah sure retaliate

Well, you'd hate that because you are not really British and your only loyalty is to a fucking KGB agent. (He's not going to sleep with you)