
I am very worried as Nick Cohen points out in Sunday's Observer:
"Trust, however, is impossible as long as the state expects us to believe the transparent falsehood that Britain is the only country in the west where Russia has not tried to rig elections. I can guess why the police and intelligence services have released nothing on the meetings between Leave.EU and the Russian embassy. If they were to do their duty, they would embarrass a Conservative party that was taking Britain out of the EU and a Labour party led by far-leftists who have opposed the EU all their lives. Neither wants the Brexit campaign examined. I do not want to draw a crass moral equivalence between the Russian and British security services, but they are similar in one respect: both put political convenience before the national interest.
Brexit, in other words, is poisoning the attempts to defend British democracy as it has poisoned everything else – which was why Russia was so anxious for Britain to leave in the first place."