1. "I don't understand why the press, the political establishment and the public are so reluctant to call out what the Russians have been doing. What they did in Brexit, what they did in the United States" independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
2. With Breixt it would mean the security services admitting they dropped the ball- again. I've been told that at the highest level of M16 the line is "we see no benefit in telling the great British public that they were suckered"
3. Anyone who knows how bureaucracies work can surmise that they see no benefit in telling the great British public that MI6 was suckered either.
4. Then there's the politics. The Tories and Labour are committed to Brexit do they want an investigation into all those meetings between the Russian embassy and the Leave.EU campaign theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/j…
5. Or the gold deal Russia offered Arron Banks theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/a…
6. Leavers should be able to support Brexit and defend Britain against the machinations of a hostile foreign power. In practice they fear it would discredit the referendum result. For where would their story of national liberation be if it turned out Putin was writing the script?
7. Labour, which ought to be hammering away at this, is also compromised by specific ties between Seumas Miline and Putin thetimes.co.uk/article/moscow… and the more general leftish feeling on the left that anyone who is anti-west can't be so bad
8. If you're an ambitious security service officer do you really want to take all the flak from left and right doing your duty would bring. Better to decide that the great British public should not worry their tiny little heads about matters that are none of their concern
