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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts) Thu Sep 21, 2017, 03:42 PM Sep 2017

Found this question on a Facebook page today:

"If you saw Nigel Farage, Ian Duncan Smith, Michael Gove and Jacob Rees Mogg drowning and you could only rescue one of them....what kind of sandwich would you make instead?"

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Found this question on a Facebook page today: (Original Post) Ken Burch Sep 2017 OP

A really nice sub, but there's another thread I just saw SonofDonald Sep 2017 #1

Brexit was just another Russian intelligence operation tikka Sep 2017 #2

While I wouldn't be surprised if Putin's boys meddled in it (they meddle in everything).... LeftishBrit Sep 2017 #3

SonofDonald

(2,050 posts)

1. A really nice sub, but there's another thread I just saw

Reply to Ken Burch (Original post)

Thu Sep 21, 2017, 04:14 PM

Sep 2017

Where I'll state what type....

But yeah, a sandwhich would be my response.

tikka

(762 posts)

2. Brexit was just another Russian intelligence operation

Reply to Ken Burch (Original post)

Thu Sep 21, 2017, 08:50 PM

Sep 2017

I don't see why that hasn't been publicized more in the UK

LeftishBrit

(41,205 posts)

3. While I wouldn't be surprised if Putin's boys meddled in it (they meddle in everything)....

Reply to tikka (Reply #2)

Fri Sep 22, 2017, 10:59 AM

Sep 2017

I don't think it can be described as just one more Russian intelligence operation. Brexit was the culmination of 40 years of populist pandering for xenophobic votes, plus billionaire tax exile media owners voting for greater tax avoidance rights, plus British governments and businesses finding it terribly convenient to let people blame the EU for problems of much more local origin.

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