BREXIT! BREXIT! BREXIT!

[rainbow]

It's not just chlorinated chicken: five foods a US trade deal could bring to the UK

In place of stringent EU food regulations, the US is demanding a ‘science-based’ approach with disturbing consequences

Nothing symbolises British fears of a standard-slashing US trade deal better than chlorinated chickens: those zombie birds, barely able to move, cluck or feed, stuffed with chemicals that force them to grow to unbelievable sizes, sitting in their own waste, covered in sores rather than feathers. At the end of their miserable life of confinement, they are washed in chlorine or a similar chemical to get rid of the bacteria that infect them.

Tasty.
Coq au chlore

[Animavore]

[Scot Dutchy]

[Brian Peacock]

Brexit means Brexit.

[Scot Dutchy]

Right in the goolies.

[Brian Peacock]

Indeed. But, you know, our 'wealth creators' really need those tax havens for jobs, or something...

[Scot Dutchy]

I think the word you are looking for is CORRUPTION.

[Svartalf]

what an ugly word, it's just a little graft.

[Scot Dutchy]

Back-handers? Under the table?

[Brian Peacock]

Old boys' network.

[pErvinalia]

It's really quite despairing how uninformed so many voters are.

[Brian Peacock]

True free speech is a freedom from rhetoric, and Brexit is rhetoric all the way down.

[Animavore]

[Scot Dutchy]

Sums it up nicely.

[Brian Peacock]

49% of voters believe Kremlin interfered in Brexit referendum

Almost half the British public believes the Russian government interfered in the EU referendum and last year’s general election, according to a poll. The latest Opinium poll for the Observer found that 49% of voters think there was Russian interference in the Brexit referendum, with 23% disagreeing. Some 47% believed Russia interfered in the December general election.

The poll findings come after the long-awaited publication of the report into Russian interference by parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee last week. It found that the government had not attempted to investigate potential Russian interference in the referendum. It said the UK had “badly underestimated” the Russian threat.

Opinium asked people whether they thought there was any involvement from Russia in the last three general elections, the EU referendum and the Scottish referendum. For each, the public were more likely to think that the Russian government had interfered than that it had not.

Two-fifths (40%) thought Russia had interfered in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. Remainers were more likely (63%) to think that the Russian government interfered in the EU referendum than Leavers (39%).

Asked about the 2019 general election, 70% of Lib Dem voters and 62% of Labour voters believed the Russian government interfered, compared with 39% of Conservative voters. However, even Conservative voters were more likely to believe that the Russian government interfered in that election (39%) than not (33%).

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... sia-report

While I understand what this poll tells us, what it actually means... well, I'm not so sure.