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Denzil_DC

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

Reply to Hekate (Reply #9)

Mon Mar 20, 2017, 09:28 PM

Mar 2017

Our own opportunist demagogues like Farage fit well with Putin, down to the financial greed.

If there was any influence from Putin, though, it wasn't so much rigging (we've no reason to doubt the result, dammit) as another push at an already opening door.

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Theresa May to trigger article 50 on 29 March [View all] brooklynite Mar 2017 OP

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