Video: Vladimir Putin suggests Cameron may have called referendum 'to blackmail Europe'

[uhnope]

Source: Belfast Telegraph

Vladimir Putin suggests David Cameron may have called a referendum on the EU "to blackmail Europe", in his first major intervention in the Brexit debate.

Politicians including Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond have speculated that Mr Putin would relish a Brexit as a way of weakening the European Union and allowing Russia greater scope to reassert itself.

Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/video-news/video-vladimir-putin-suggests-cameron-may-have-called-referendum-to-blackmail-europe-34812056.html

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Brexit is UK's Trump and it's happening this week. Freaky

[iandhr]

1. The odd part is before eurosceptic movement was highjacked by the far right...

... it used to be quite common on the left in the UK. Tony Benn said "I'd rather have a bad parliament then a good king"

UKIP was founded by a center-left academic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Sked

[TeamPooka]

2. countdown to Trumpo agreeing with Outin in...3...2....1..... nt

[FLPanhandle]

3. Putin wants his old Soviet Bloc Europe back

The EU & NATO are thorns in that plan.

[newthinking]

4. Completely taken out of context (anyone surprised)

If folks here want to be anti-intellectual and comment without actually listening or preserve their bias well have at it.

And if you watch the video it is clear that he thinks that it was not a good move for Cameron to have called the referendum and seems to think Britain would be better off in the Union.