The panic on the left is international. 

U.K. Labour, which is collapsing before our eyes a mere few months after winning a massive majority in the Parliament, is engaging in a massive election interference program here in the United States. When Russia spent a few hundred thousand dollars on grossly ineffective ads aimed at stirring up trouble in 2016, the world went wild. 

The ruling party of the United Kingdom is literally sending foreign agents to the United States to help the Kamala Harris campaign. So far nobody is making a stink about it. 

Why on Earth is @UKLabour proactively campaigning for Kamala Harris by flying out & providing accommodation for 100 UK Labour Party members in the USA to campaign for her?

Disgraceful!

Labour government will be a laughing stock in the Trump administration if (likely) he wins.

— Nikki Plummer (@nikki_plummer) October 17, 2024

It's not even clear that this is legal, and it certainly is dangerously stupid. 

There is nothing unusual about foreign governments dabbling in foreign elections. Usually, though, this amounts to making statements supporting one candidate or another, policy shifts intended to put one side in a better light, and providing political advice. It never, as far as I know, includes putting boots on the ground in a desperate attempt to save a floundering candidate. 

Keir Starmer's net approval is now -30, a drop of 49 points since becoming PM in July, in the latest @OpiniumResearch poll.

The lesson here is not to portray yourself as a paragon of virtue when under the surface you’re a corrupt charlatan. pic.twitter.com/nglLHiJVr5

— Chris Rose (@ArchRose90) September 28, 2024

And it's not like Labour has a lot to offer here in the United States. They have managed to become incredibly unpopular in the UK in record time--and even when they won a massive victory earlier in the year, they were hardly that popular. The collapse of the Tories, the rise of Reform, and massive discontent allowed them to win seats in the Parliament with small pluralities, not massive wins in any seats. Their massive victory was powered by the support of only 34% of Britons. 

It's not at all clear what these Labour staffers will be doing here--a bunch of people with British accents will hardly be the tip of the spear when it comes to persuading voters, but they can do vital work in the campaign offices and perhaps work with local officials to handle logistics and similar matters. 

The left is a transnationalist movement, and leftists around the world are deeply invested in the US presidential election. A return to Donald Trump's "America First" policies and victory for the MAGA movement will be a big blow, and Labour, in particular, has a lot to worry about because the US and other anglosphere politics tend to converge over time. 

It would be a mistake to see what is going on as merely a battle between left and right; it's more a battle over nationalism versus transnationalism. A US move away from transnationalism will harm the world elite. Countries like Italy, Poland, Argentina, El Salvador, and other countries that have seen nationalist revivals will be very happy with a Trump victory; countries like the UK, France, Belgium, and Germany will certainly not. 

Is the Labour election interference a move of desperation, or merely an example of how they see the elite as one big happy family without national borders?

Probably a lot of both. It may never have occurred to them that British party officials don't belong in US elections.