https://web.archive.org/web/20240204211109/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/04/russia-china-iran-could-target-uk-irish-backdoor-thinktank-warns
certified Guardian moment.
I did some further detective work too, that isn't particularly shocking - it's just how journalism works, but if you've never given it thought before, this might interest you:
click here for detective work
The 'publication' they source, until about an hour ago, didn't lead anywhere. They report it's contents, but don't link to where it can be accessed. My first thought was that it was some very shoddy journalism. I went searching and found nothing initially. I tried again later and found it:
https://policyexchange.org.uk/publication/closing-the-back-door/
I then inspected the webpage's source code: "datePublished":"2024-02-05T00:01:01+00:00","dateModified":"2024-02-04T23:41:48+00:00",
It was modified on the 4th at 23:41, and It was published on '05' - today, at '00:01:01'.
The Guardian reported on it 9 hours ago. The Irish Times reported on it 8 hours ago.
Therefore, I can say without a doubt that The Guardian and The Irish Times colluded with the Policy Exchange think tank in advance, and these articles were probably lined up in advance of today. Perhaps those publications uploaded in advance in order to catch the Sinn Fein leader news cycle while it was hot, because they hadn't anticipated new leadership happening in that moment (the day before).
The Mirror also published an article on it at the time the Policy Exchange website went up about an hour ago, but I can't be arsed to check whether they're just regurgitating second hand info from the Guardian and Irish Times, or whether they're reproducing first hand info from the original publication.
Also, the think tanks leaders are ex secretaries of defence. The department of defense (offense, realistically) always has ties to top media publications.
How would a call of duty set in britbong land work out? What's the "Rameriz defend burger town" meme there?
Group of chinese-armed IRA soldiers walk into a Greggs
Remember - no sausage rolls
4 IRA soldiers absolutely let rip full auto on the gammon standing in line in front of them
(picture a raging boomer thumb screaming at a 16 year old boy) LEWIS, DEFEND CRUMDINGLYHAMSHIRE BY-THE-SEA!
there's Thatcher's Techbase, a Doom mod where you kill Margaret Thatcher, which Jeremy Corbyn was photographed playing: https://youtu.be/9dO5j9dHHO4?si=_m8PT_0O4i567Rgz
then there's Duke Smoochem - a leftist Duke Nukem mod that's a satire of Britain: https://youtu.be/4EGY-NfW4n4?si=AirQIFxlx_8kniTx
Then there's Corbyn playing Techbase in Duke Smoochem: https://youtu.be/fl0E82Z72FE?si=464I8H8LPX23ysqs
There's also a Fallout London mod coming out soon that looks pretty amazing. But yeah, our defend burgertown would probably be Captain Price in a Greggs or a Wetherspoons.
When COD actually did Britain they made the map Underground in MW3 (taking place in the London Underground).
rawi oh, oil geh on dat as sewn as yumanly possibel, buh fayest I goh uh enjawi me tiddly winks and smuggly mugglies befoh tha rashuns dun stop incloodin dem