Jacob Rees-Mogg met Steve Bannon to discuss US-UK politics

[octoberlib]

Source: The Guardian

Jacob Rees-Mogg had a private meeting with former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon in London on Thursday to talk about how conservative movements can win in the US and UK, the Guardian has learned.

Rees-Mogg, a favourite among Conservative members to be the next party leader, spent more than an hour at the meeting in a Mayfair hotel with Bannon, who was at one point seen as Trump’s most influential adviser.

The American also met Nigel Farage, the former Ukip leader, and another Conservative MP during a short trip to the UK.

The meetings took place on the day of the diplomatic spat between Trump and Theresa May, after the US president retweeted anti-Muslim material from the far-right fringe group Britain First.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/dec/01/jacob-rees-mogg-held-meeting-with-steve-bannon-in-london

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Nothing good can come from this.

[lagomorph777]

1. At this point, I'm just waiting for the UK to start a serious Russia probe.

Brexit was obviously a Putin initiative.

[PatSeg]

2. I wonder

if they haven't already begun. Their intelligence is often ahead of ours.

[lagomorph777]

4. And a bit more discreet, as the Brits are reputed to be.

It might hit with a huge bang.

I imagine Her Royal Highness would not take kindly to a plot to quietly overthrow the Crown and hand power to a foreigner.

[PatSeg]

5. It would appear

that a number of foreign intelligence services were aware of the Russia-Trump connection quite a bit before we were. No, I don't think the Queen will be too pleased.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. And note that the "dossier"

was done by former M.I.6er Christopher Steele.

[PatSeg]

7. Exactly

They were light-years ahead of the FBI and CIA.

[octoberlib]

3. Yes, it was. Andy Wigmore of UKIP called Brexit the petri dish for Trump2016.

I know the British Electoral Commission is investigating Cambridge Analytica for their involvement but they need a special counsel like Mueller over there.

[Denzil_DC]

9. "Initiative" is the wrong word.

Most of the media had been laying the ground for Brexit for a long time, and the final result in the referendum wasn't much different to the roughly 50/50 polling we'd seen for some years.

There are quite a few leads on questionable funding (some funnelled via Northern Ireland, where the rules are laxer than elsewhere) and related issues that are currently being officially investigated, but even if Putin did have a marginally decisive effect on a relatively close result, he was a Johnny-come-lately, not an initiator.

[Denzil_DC]

8. Cool.

Farage is already in the frame because of his messenger boy routine between Trump and Assange.

Obnoxious Wodehouseish toff Rees-Mogg is an unlikely darling of the British alt-right. It would be fun if he ensnared himself too.

Wonder who the other Tory MP was?

[SergeStorms]

10. Bannon has to go.

I sincerely hope there's something, anything, in Mueller's investigation that would implicate Bannon in a crime. There must be something!
Ol' Liver Spots spent more time with Trump, Flynn, Priebus etc. than anyone else for a while. I want that bastard in jail almost as much as I want Trump in jail.