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Denzil_DC

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8. Even most of those of us in the UK who're bitterly opposed to Brexit don't believe it was rigged.

Reply to Hekate (Reply #5)

Mon Mar 20, 2017, 08:19 PM

Mar 2017

There was plenty of money sloshing round from known sources without looking for a significant role for Putin, and there's been thirty-odd years of anti-EU propaganda in most of our media outlets.

From the post-polling evidence since, it seems to have been more of an anti-establishment tide that went pear-shaped.

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Sad to see the UK become a third world country Hokie Mar 2017 #1

yup. the brits brought this on themselves. Javaman Mar 2017 #2

Actually, Brexit may well have been rigged as well. Putin had a hand in financing the propaganda. Hekate Mar 2017 #5

Even most of those of us in the UK who're bitterly opposed to Brexit don't believe it was rigged. Denzil_DC Mar 2017 #8

The last 30 years, huh? Sounds about how long we've been battling the Right Wing here. Hekate Mar 2017 #9

Oh, I agree with what's you're saying there, for sure. Denzil_DC Mar 2017 #10

Many of us in the Republic of Ireland don't want the North, there are many reasons not OnDoutside Mar 2017 #4

third world country ??? ManiacJoe Mar 2017 #6

An independent UK will be much less of an economic and otherwise influential world power Hokie Mar 2017 #11

"Third World" is an oldfashioned term, and was usually geographically specific Denzil_DC Mar 2017 #12

I fully support Scotland Independence. Dawson Leery Mar 2017 #3

And there are hitches before she even pulls the trigger Denzil_DC Mar 2017 #7