Britain is becoming a land of conspiracy theorists
Quote:The anti-Semitism crisis gripping the Labour Party is also a crisis of conspiracy-mongering. A worrying number of people on the Labour left are influenced by two conspiracy-charged tropes: that Jews are over-represented in international finance and that the Israel lobby distorts British foreign policy. People who are open to these tropes tend to be open to other wild ideas: that the deep state is mobilising to destroy Mr Corbyn; that capitalists are conspiring to immiserate the poor; and, at the extremes, that the cia planned 9/11 as an excuse to steal Arab oil. Alex Scott-Samuel, the chairman of the Liverpool Wavertree Labour Party who did as much as anyone to persuade the local mp, Luciana Berger, to quit the party last month, often appeared on a television channel run by David Icke, who believes that members of the Bilderberg Group are literally reptiles in human form.
https://www.economist.com/britain/2019/0...-theorists
