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A big thank you to those who voted for Brexit

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Dinahmo Thu 07-Jan-21 16:03:15

I've just been reading about the additional charges that people buying goods from the UK are having to pay on purchases arriving in EU countries. So much so that many retailers are no longer selling to people in the EU. The list is long but includes M & S, John Lewis and Fortnums. I buy a variety of things from the UK, including clothing and health supplements. I am no longer able to do this. But it's not just me and other Brits living abroad, it's everybody in the EU.

So, those cheesemakers will have a hard time and I will no longer be able to buy the very good quality cheddar from my local supermarket (which the French like to, not just Brits) because it will be too expensive.

Casdon Wed 27-Jan-21 18:25:39

Here you are JenniferEccles, a very robust study by Ofcom of the media sources used by the British public.
www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0013/201316/news-consumption-2020-report.pdf
The times they are a-changin.

MayBee70 Wed 27-Jan-21 23:51:14

Nandalot

It’s significant that the majority in Liverpool voted remain unlike similar areas. The Sun is largely boycotted in Liverpool because of its comments after the Hillsborough tragedy.

Yes, I was puzzled at the time until DH told me about The Sun boycott. Just goes to show the influence papers like that have.

muse Thu 28-Jan-21 12:32:39

MaizieD

Cornish sea salt? hmm

As an Essex girl I can tell you that the very best British sea salt is Maldon sea salt, renowned worldwide...

www.bonappetit.com/story/history-of-maldon-salt

Maldon is very good. We prefer salt flakes. Bought Cornish sea salt when I first moved here but I can't get their flakes locally. So went back to using Maldon flakes but keep them in the cornish salt container because it has a good seal. Our cottage is really damp. Maldon as you know comes in a packet.

NotSpaghetti Thu 28-Jan-21 20:01:29

Why are we all talking about UK salt on this thread?
??

Callistemon Thu 28-Jan-21 22:36:22

Maldon as you know comes in a packet
I keep Maldon salt in an old coffee jar (Douwe Egberts which has a good seal). Actually, the cardboard container is biodegradable, unlike the plastic tub the Cornish salt comes in.

Goodness knows where Douwe Egberts coffee is grown.

nanna8 Thu 28-Jan-21 22:39:40

Well salt is safe from the clutches of Brexit.

Mollygo Thu 28-Jan-21 23:04:50

These posts on salt have been great. We bought fleur de sel fromNoirmoutier, but of course we can’t visit any more.
It lasts for ages because we don’t use much. I’m going to investigate some of those salts mentioned here. Thanks for the info.

NotSpaghetti Fri 29-Jan-21 00:48:48

Oh if I must talk salt....
?
I have a lovely flaked salt with truffle from Italy...
Maybe we need a salt thread....

Callistemon Fri 29-Jan-21 10:03:07

I used to visit an elderly aunt who lived in Salt and we used to go to an excellent pub there.

JaneJudge Fri 29-Jan-21 10:09:53

Callistemon

I used to visit an elderly aunt who lived in Salt and we used to go to an excellent pub there.

so did we grin we always used to have our Christmas meal there!
god that was a long time ago as I haven't lived round there for almost 20 years shock

Callistemon Fri 29-Jan-21 10:10:31

The Holly Bush?

JaneJudge Fri 29-Jan-21 10:13:46

Yes! I was reading the thread and thinking about the William Salt Library and then you mentioned Salt! It really was a nice pub. I just googled though and apparently it has closed down sad

JaneJudge Fri 29-Jan-21 10:17:02

Sorry I realise that is a bit random blush there were quite a few nice pubs round there, there was a lovely one opposite Amerton farm but that closed down aswell and there was a nice one in Weston

varian Sat 30-Jan-21 12:22:55

To go back to the OP's point, surely if we are going to give a "big thank you" to those who voted for brexit, we ought to include those who really made it happen, not just the billionaire tax dodging newspaper proprietors but the Russians?

"Russian interference in the Brexit referendum included the promotion of misinformation through both fake social media accounts and state-sponsored media outlets such as RT and Sputnik.

According to a US senate report, Russian state media channel RT covered the referendum campaign extensively and offered "systematically one-sided coverage". A parliamentary inquiry into disinformation and 'fake news' cited research estimating the value of anti-EU Russian state media during the EU referendum campaign at between £1.4 and 4.14 million.

Data released by Twitter in 2018 identified 3,841 accounts of Russian origin affiliated with the Internet Research Agency, as well as 770 potentially from Iran, which collectively sent over 10 million Tweets in "an effort to spread disinformation and discord", according to The Telegraph, with a "day-long blitz" on the day of the referendum. One study, with a sample of 1.5 million tweets containing hashtags relating to the referendum, found that almost a third of all tweets had been generated by just 1% of the 300,000 sampled accounts. They found that both pro-Leave and pro-Remain bots existed but that "the family of hashtags associated with the argument for leaving the EU dominates", with pro-Leave bots tweeting more than three times as often.

In November 2017, The Times reported that researchers from Swansea University and UC Berkeley had identified around 150,000 accounts with links to Russia that tweeted about Brexit in the run-up to the referendum. Others at City, University of London had previously documented a network of 13,493 accounts that tweeted about the referendum, “only to disappear from Twitter shortly after the ballot”. A working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research claims the influence of Twitter bots may have been significant enough to impact the result, roughly calculating that automated accounts may have ultimately been responsible for around 1.76 percentage points of the 'Leave' vote share."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_Brexit_referendum