tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post5743056844628844691..comments2023-12-23T09:28:20.869+00:00Comments on The View from Cullingworth: People who think Twitter - with or without Russians - decided the referendum need to get out moreUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-22477771829574969172017-11-17T20:06:41.528+00:002017-11-17T20:06:41.528+00:00"maybe the sheer ignominy of living under law..."maybe the sheer ignominy of living under laws imposed by a foreign power(s). "<br /><br />Strange...there was me thinking all the laws we live under are imposed upon us by our sovereign, independent parliament...I must have missed Juncker landing at Dover with the massed ranks of the german Girl Guide movement at his back to IMPOSE their funny foreign laws upon us. jack ketchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07921268825653615322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-10583738577159410372017-11-17T17:29:09.404+00:002017-11-17T17:29:09.404+00:00Around here the only people I know who voted remai...Around here the only people I know who voted remain were white collar employees of local government, education, NHS and the university, and a few younger people who had experienced no alternative to EU culture and therefore knew no better. Everyone else I know was, and still is, a committed leaver - for exactly the reasons you outline, plus maybe the sheer ignominy of living under laws imposed by a foreign power(s). Woodsy42https://www.blogger.com/profile/12355671210161625647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-60622673548354859812017-11-17T16:00:56.610+00:002017-11-17T16:00:56.610+00:00Didn't the USA actually send their president o...Didn't the USA actually send their president over to try & influence the referendum in the Remain direction? No pussyffoting about with Twitter accounts for them.<br /><br />Also, weren't there dire warnings from the IMF, the OECD, The EU itself and a few hundred others whose salaries & perks are paid, at least in part, by the UK taxpayer?<br /><br />I noticed all those - never saw a tweet from a Russian account though.<br /><br />Soarerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06585548776444898953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-73097037644977248292017-11-17T00:25:42.771+00:002017-11-17T00:25:42.771+00:00that the EU is a distant, unaccountable, corrupt a...<i>that the EU is a distant, unaccountable, corrupt and undemocratic institution a very long way away filled with people who have absolutely no connection with or idea about what matters in Denholme or Wyke or Scarborough.</i><br /><br />and that differs from Westminster how exactly? Speaking as someone who finds himself, somewhat distressingly, more in the Remainer camp than among the Brexshiteurs, I have to say this Russian 'thing' is just so much dingoes Kidneyskis. Total and embarrassing nonsense , nonsense up there with Bojo's lies and Project Fear. Brexit-in whatever form it finally comes to pass- strengthens the EU (if only because it means one less sovereign national government around the table that has to agree with the rest and not veto because it sees it's national interests threatened) and the last thing Putin wants or needs is a stronger EU. jack ketchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07921268825653615322noreply@blogger.com