Am I being manipulated? I frequently come on here and vent my anger at the outists, spewing all sorts of bile at what they and their lies have done. Usually it happens after I’ve seen or read something on the news, detailing something else going wrong. Yet it occurs to me that I may have fallen into a trap, and I’m supposed to get angry. It is possible that this is all part of a giant plan; that, with the help of the media, public opinion will eventually turn and we will rejoin the EU. Those who hold to such theories say that the union is behind all this, and it is a nefarious, all-powerful organisation intent on dominating our lives. To be honest, one has to concede that that is a possibility. Yet if that is so, it is just as possible that those who promote such theories also have ulterior motives: they could be the ones trying to manipulate us. They create elaborate conspiracy theories which might even sound left-wing; yet by convincing people the EU is evil, we walk straight into their rightwing trap, allowing our rights to be stripped from us etc. For instance I heard one internet radio presenter try to tell people not to worry, the European convention on human rights would be replaced with a British bill of rights, but surely he knew that one of the main reasons outists were campaigning to leave the e u was because the ehcr got in their way. I suppose it boils down to who you believe: someone is trying to manipulate us, but whom?