Looks like Andy Burnham would like to reopen the whole Brexit debate. I didn't want us to leave, but now we have I don't want to go back to it and have all the life sucked out of politics again, by endless BS from both sides.
I do think a closer relationship with Europe would be good for many things, including trade, a better trade relationship would improve out economy, maybe not by bringing in big multinationals in to invest here, but it would help all the small, artisanal businesses to trade again without the expense and barriers, it would help enormously. Government only ever seems to think about big, multinational businesses, rarely about the small and independent businesses, who quietly go about their the trade and rarely if ever get represented even though they create employment pay tax here and contribute to a vibrant economy.
One thing I do know to have been true was Russian interferance, back in the day I was on another site and all these "new members" popped up all spouting anti-EU, pro-Russia stuff, they rarely responded to anything not Brexit related or if they did they somehow brought it back to that. I challenged one and said it sounded like a Russian bot and magically all the "new members" disapeared. That was only a tiny site, so I can't imagine what it was like on the bigger ones like faceache or twatter.
