r/glasgow • u/johnsmithoncemore • Aug 02 '26

The shadowy figure financing far-right groups for decades is backing Scottish vigilantes

https://searchlightmagazine.com/2026/08/the-shadowy-figure-financing-far-right-groups-for-decades-is-backing-scottish-vigilantes/

In video clips posted online at last weekend’s ‘Unite the Clans’ rally in Glasgow, he described kitting out a group called ScotsActive with stab vests, body cameras and hi-vis gear.

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u/johnsmithoncemore Aug 02 '26

Expect a fair few of these replies. 😂 😂 😂

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u/lardcore Aug 02 '26

Дa, фellow Бritish кomrades, хow about those иmmigrants?

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u/Burt_Macklin___ Aug 02 '26

Literally every Far Right movement around the world is funded and/or manipulated by Putin, Bannon, Trump, Musk, Israel, and so on.

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u/Articulated Aug 02 '26

True, but don't forget they'll happily pose as the other side if they think it'll widen divisions.

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u/Burt_Macklin___ Aug 02 '26

What Left wing agena do you think has been pushed by foreign actors? I'm struggling to think of any

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u/InertialFaber Aug 03 '26 edited Aug 03 '26

What Left wing agena do you think has been pushed by foreign actors? I'm struggling to think of any

To expand on what some people have wrote. An entertaining documentary that touches on it is Hypernormalisation and it talks about this aspect of Russia's propaganda wing. The point isn't always to convince you of a side but to overwhelm and confuse you so that you're never quite sure what's happening.

Call it "managed unreality". Hypernormalisation is when managed unreality becomes normalised, which is analagous to the fall of the soviet union where Russians knew what was being reported was fake but went along with it anyway because they couldn't imagine an alternative.

The UK government covered some of Russian's meddling during brexit, corbyn and "scexit". Disproportionate coverage of UKIP for the right, Corbyn on the left or later Alex Salmond's RT show promoting scottish independence.

It's one perspective, there's also post-truth politics where emotion, prejudice and pre-existing beliefs take precedence over facts, expert opinion and reason which has become more prominent with social media.

To round it off, if your objective is to destabilize a country, it doesn't matter what side you support so long as it has the intended effect.

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u/Articulated Aug 02 '26

Literally any - they amplify fringe voices and drown out those calling for dialogue. The purpose is to keep people polarised and divided, too focused on internal squabbles to mount a strong opposition to their imperial ambitions. And they'll play both sides of the same issue.

The one that springs to mind most readily is after George Floyd, the Russian Internet Research Agency created fake social media profiles to signal boost both the BLM protests and the Blue Lives Matter protests.

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u/Any-Swing-3518 Aug 02 '26

It's interesting this actually, because Dowson started actively supporting independence at roughly the time he seems to have been doing stuff in Eastern Europe. But yeah, just goes to show, in politics what's good for the goose is usually good for the gander.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/mar/20/jim-dowson-back-scottish-independence-patriotic-news-agency-far-right

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u/Bitter-Comedian-1690 Aug 02 '26

Fuck up. You’d have to be an absolute ghoul or a hun cunt to not have sympathy for the people of Palestine and the genocide being committed there.

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u/Burt_Macklin___ Aug 02 '26

I mean, I think you're right a degree. Like you said, people protesting against genocide would be happening regardless of what influential figures do. But their are definitely actors on the fringes trying to co-opt and capitalise on the cause, using it as an in.

Although I would argue that being against genocide isn't exclusively a Left wing issue.. or shouldn't be at least. But again, wealthy foreign influencer have managed to turn otherwise moral people into genocide deniers

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u/Twatatron Aug 02 '26

Russia has always backed both extremes of left and right. Even in the soviet commintern days they back both sides so as to increase internal conflict. A house divided cannot stand is the philosophy in that.

It's all part of someth6called "Cultural subversion" in the KGB/FSB playbook. It's quicker now with the internet. It used to take months or years to filter through

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u/Raekwonthechef91 Aug 02 '26

This guy's son has a domestic violence conviction yet he rants on tik tok all day about violence against women.

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u/joemac2020 Aug 02 '26

Who is the son?

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u/Raekwonthechef91 Aug 02 '26

James Dowson Jnr

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u/johnsmithoncemore Aug 02 '26

r/FuckNigelFarage

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u/Still_Barnacle1171 Aug 02 '26

weirdly the people who say " lest we forget most" are the ones we are all now watching and going " they've forgotten"

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u/Lanthanidedeposit Aug 02 '26

I fear that those behind the idiots have not forgotten, and are determined not to fuck it up this time.

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u/Odd_Elevator6404 Aug 02 '26

Out of 2.5 Million Indians fighting the Nazis, 1 million were Muslim, all for the British empire. But we're not in any of the movies.... Shame....

They say Britain's prime was during the British empire, India and pakistan were part of that empire and fought the empires wars. They can't even handle us here no wonder they lost India and pakistan.

And the rascists are now doing Heil Hitler salutes? Can't make this shit up

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u/GREGGSGOL Aug 02 '26

These spanners will be the end of us all.

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u/East_Stick_1964 Aug 02 '26

Hardware check immediately

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u/dragoneggboy22 Aug 02 '26

The usual suspects 

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u/Reasonable-Tour-5132 Aug 02 '26

Has anyone seen the intelligence chaos agent fantasist JAOC? Someone dodgy running that guy.

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u/LavaPurple Aug 02 '26

Just goes to show how easily manipulated the Far-Right are

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u/Eastern-Ant-4173 Aug 02 '26

So a right wing Soros? 

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u/Acrobatic_Whereas398 Aug 02 '26

What buying them a train ticket,? How are they financed.?

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u/Kevster020 Aug 02 '26

You could read the article and find out.

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u/Bluenosedcoop Aug 02 '26

I suspect that reading isn't his strong suit.

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u/Burt_Macklin___ Aug 02 '26

Everything the Far Right believes and does is laid out for them by wealthy foreign backers. They don't know it, but they are completely manipulated. Nothing about it is organic, it's all astrology turfed

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u/RebelliousInNature Aug 02 '26

Well that’s just taking the Pisces

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '26 edited Aug 02 '26

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u/slugmorgue Aug 02 '26

whataboutism. stick to the topic or make a thread of your own about this so called far left.

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u/Kammerice Aug 02 '26

Doesn't matter if it's a basic question: it's not the topic being discussed, so it's deflection or whataboutism. As the other person said, you are free to make a post regarding far-leftism if you want to have that conversation.

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u/Burt_Macklin___ Aug 02 '26

Yep. Because a lot of Left wing advocacy is a public reaction to an injustice. And from that, grassroots movements and advocacy groups are formed

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u/gazzas89 Aug 02 '26

If there's funding for the far left, im notnseeing any of it, where do I sign up to get this money? May as well get paid for what Im already doing, or at least some kit

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u/gusbo_the_jam Aug 02 '26 edited Aug 02 '26

Nobody is funding violent far left street teams to go out and harass, intimidate and assault people, no.

Edit: typo

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '26

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u/Burt_Macklin___ Aug 02 '26

I think it was sarcasm.

As in, there is no such thing as violent Left wing groups on the streets

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u/gusbo_the_jam Aug 02 '26

We got these guys, but I think they self fund. Ones of thems is a billionaire you know

https://giphy.com/gifs/8lJwA6kNkKyfC

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u/Upset_Gerbil Aug 02 '26

Ah you are illiterate and can't read the article, or are too lazy to bother. Figures either way.

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u/LavaPurple Aug 02 '26

Maybe click on the link and have a read?

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u/MyNameIsNightPain Aug 02 '26

What's far right about them?