Putin tells May to 'fulfil will of people' on Brexit

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Putin tells May to 'fulfil will of people' on Brexit

Russian president ranges across subjects including nuclear weapons, Syria and a crackdown on rap during annual televised presser

Andrew Roth in Moscow
Thu 20 Dec 2018 14.53 GMT

Vladimir Putin has said the UK should not hold a second referendum on Brexit, insisting Theresa May must “fulfil the will of the people”.

Offering public support that the embattled British prime minister may rather do without, Putin said he “understood” May’s position in “fighting for this Brexit”.

“The referendum was held,” the Russian president said from Moscow during his annual press conference, which is broadcast on national television. “What can she do? She has to fulfil the will of the people expressed in the referendum.”

Russia is seen as a possible beneficiary of the UK’s exit from the EU, and a prominent financial backer of the leave campaign, Arron Banks, met Russian embassy officials repeatedly during the run-up to the referendum in June 2016.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/20/vladimir-putin-theresa-may-brexit-fulfil-will-of-the-people

[Kittycow]

1. Mind your own beeswax, Vladimir.

[randr]

2. My suspicion is that Putey is behind the Brexit vote

One more example of the successful use of social media to wage war on Putins enemies.

[Turbineguy]

3. Go ahead!

Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

[PSPS]

4. What he really means is 'fulfil will of putin' on Brexit

There's every indication now that russian 'active measures' resulted in brexit the same way it resulted in trump in the US.

[2naSalit]

5. From what I've been reading and hearing of late

It seems the "will of the people" is to hold another Brexit referendum because the last vote was tainted... most aren't wanting to leave.