Who argues that a ‘shadow state’ controls Britain? That a gang of faraway, faceless suits ‘orchestrate public life from the shadows’, from their ‘yachts in the Mediterranean’? Who thinks people in ‘the shadows’, who always remain ‘hidden’, exercise a ‘poisonous, secretive influence on public life’?
A spotty sixth-former who spends way too much time on the internet, perhaps? Or maybe one of those cranky guys who hangs out in the discussion threads of David Icke’s website, convinced that lizards in suits run the world?
Actually it’s Tom Watson, new deputy leader of the Labour Party. All those claims come from his rather bonkers book on the Murdoch empire, where Watson outlines his belief that the Aussie billionaire and his ‘shadowy’ network (everything is shadowy in Watson’s worldview) ‘spun an invisible web of connections’ to build a ‘shadow state’ that puppeteers British politics.
It’s positively Icke-like in its feverishness.
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