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LeftishBrit

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9. Propagandized, not trolled

Reply to RelativelyJones (Reply #6)

Fri Dec 22, 2017, 07:05 PM

Dec 2017

Few of us here had that much knowledge about the EU; and the media is relentlessly anti.

In the past, I fell for some of it myself. The Blair-Bush collaboration, and the far more reasonable views of most EU countries about Iraq, turned me into a Remainer long before the referendum; and I have learned a lot more since about all the benefits that the EU has had for the economy.

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'Iconic' blue British passport to return after Brexit [View all] shenmue Dec 2017 OP

Over 32 large financial services companies have already begun moving to EU countries Vinnie From Indy Dec 2017 #1

Probably a good thing. There are also some good things to come from national identity. RelativelyJones Dec 2017 #2

See below. n/t Denzil_DC Dec 2017 #4

Okay, I'll bite. Please name some of them. DetlefK Dec 2017 #5

I also would have voted remain if in the UK, but more than half did not RelativelyJones Dec 2017 #6

Propagandized, not trolled LeftishBrit Dec 2017 #9

UK was always isolationist. Always. DetlefK Dec 2017 #10

The UK always had a very effective balance of power strategy in Europe. RelativelyJones Dec 2017 #12

The burgundy passport never stopped us from having a national identity LeftishBrit Dec 2017 #8

Here are the colours of current European countries' passports: Denzil_DC Dec 2017 #3

The Little Englanders are overjoyed by this muriel_volestrangler Dec 2017 #7

Oh we'll get special treatment alright T_i_B Dec 2017 #11

Blue passports could have been re-introduced without Brexit, Government admits Denzil_DC Dec 2017 #13