"So why blame the Russians: "
The Russians have been directly implicated in providing money for the Brexit Campaign, just as they were directly implicated in electing Trump
That they may have 'sleeper' right-wing collaborators in Arron Banks and Bannon is not really under dispute
I think these examples may well be the tip of a larger iceberg - we know for certain that an extremist Middle Eastern foreign power has attempted to undermine the British Labour Party to defend its own extremist behaviour - technological advance has opened the door to a future where national politics ain't national any more, I'm afraid
I thin the days when MAGGIE and RONNIE rode off into the sunset together is rapidly becoming part of an idyllic past
Jim Carroll