Why isn't the idea that Brexit was a Russian intel operation being discussed

[LeftishBrit]

15. Russian intel may have got involved at the end but it's too simplistic to call it a 'Russian intel

operation'.

The roots of Brexit began in the 70s, as soon as we entered the EU. A big initial part was played by the late Enoch Powell.

Brexit comes from a combination of good old British xenophobia; nostalgia for the Empire; and a tendency, even among people who suffer from neither of the above, to be totally ignorant about the functions of the EU, and to blame it for things that are mostly the fault of our own government (I should know, I fell into that trap for a while in the past). And, like all organizations, it is not perfect, often over-bureacratic and sometimes corrupt. But all the alternatives are far worse.

If there were strong vested interests that tipped the balance, these probably involved tax-avoiding billionaires, some of them media owners, more than they involved Russia. Of course the Russian government meddles with everything to varying degrees, doubtless including Brexit, but the seeds of Brexit were sown when Putin was still an obscure student.