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A reminder of some of the senior establishment figures who sat on the campaign committee of Vote Leave, which has just been fined by the Electoral Commission:

Liam Fox
Iain Duncan Smith
Dominic Raab
Michael Gove
Boris Johnson
Steve Baker
Chris Grayling
Priti Patel
Lord Lawson
The Electoral Commission has asked the government for the ability to issue much more onerous fines...let’s see if they get it....
sorry meant to say “anti-establishment”
New:

Electoral Commission tells me it wants to increase the maximum single fine it can impose from £20,000 to around £500,000 in line with ICO ft.com/content/a8b848…
here’s the @NSoames contribution in Commons earlier today icymi
fascinating must-read here from @TheRedRoar on how the Tories have taken £5m since referendum from Vote Leave donors theredroar.com/2018/07/mays-t…
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the Grayling ferry story has taken another curious twist with Eurotunnel writing to the transport secretary expressing “serious concern” about the £103m offer to three ferry companies to provide new routes if there’s a no-deal Brexit
the letter was leaked to me yesterday, it says:

“I must bring to your attention the distortionary and anti-competitive effects of such an action, which would be a unilateral breach not only of the Concession Agreement with Eurotunnel but...(also)..competition and state aid law”
Eurotunnel wants a similar contract for itself. Otherwise it says it will consider all options, including legal action, against the transport department....
ft.com/content/21f4a1…
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Seaborne Freight won’t have its new Ramsgate-Ostend service ready before April, several weeks after Brexit day, officials admitted during a private cross-departmental meeting of Whitehall officials on Monday - story here on @FT
ft.com/content/743b11…
the company isn’t exactly denying this:
Meanwhile it seems the company might have issued “inaccurate investor briefings” last year.

A document entitled “Seaborne Freight (UK) Limited — Investor Briefing April 2018”, claimed the company had “detailed port agreements with both Ramsgate and Ostend negotiated and agreed”.
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it’s common knowledge that even small increases in checks at Dover (thanks to no-deal Brexit) could prompt queues on adjacent roads, potentially causing gridlock in Kent....but just how bad could it be?

Here’s a report last year from @imperialcollege

google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.…
today we got our hands on the findings from another secret study carried out by UCL on behalf of the Department For Transport : the findings are much more explosive....
and here it is:

The key point is that extra checks of up to 40 seconds per truck don’t result in extra queues. But above that there would be an exponential spike on delays:

With checks of 70 seconds per truck there would be....queues of SIX DAYS

ft.com/content/d05498…
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The Vote Leave team are (falsely) arguing this renders the Electoral Commission finding that they worked together with Darren Grimes redundant. But it quite clearly doesn't. Here is the advice Matthew Elliott relied on (note highlighted phrase). 1/3
And here the High Court makes it clear that the Decision means the donations to Darren Grimes were referendum expenses "irrespective of whether" they were also common plan expenses. 2/3
More background here. 3/3 waitingfortax.com/2018/09/14/ele…
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@CommonsCMS @DamianCollins .

The real question is this.
What did the Governance Committee (See next tweets) know about these ad contents?

What did the see?
When?
What did they approve?
Turn a blind eye to once published?
What was their job if not to over see content & money?
Each one should be questioned IN DETAIL about what they saw when and what steps (in writing) did each take to prevent such grossly untruthful messages infiltrating social media.

Liam Fox
Iain Duncan Smith
Dominic Raab
Michael Gove
Boris Johnson
Steve Baker
Chris Grayling
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Priti Patel
Lord Lawson
Gisela Stuart
Matthew Elliot
Andrea Leadsom
Dominic Cummings
Lord Forsyth
Theresa Villiers
Frank Field
John Whittingdale
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Incredible! @DominicRaab was on the campaign committee of Vote Leave. He is actually implicated in the breaking of multiple laws. Yet he has audacity to suggest these offences are being ‘used’ to discredit the result of the referendum. No, Dominic. Breaking the law discredits you
OH. MY. GOD. @DominicRaab is a lawyer! So lawyer involved in breaking law says it’s okay to break law because the law has now been broken...did I get that right, Dominic?
So confused by @DominicRaab’s incisive legal mind here. So these laws (which you & fellow ministers broke), these laws don’t matter? What matters is British laws for British people. Except for these ones. Is that it?
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.@DominicRaab was on the Campaign Committee at Vote Leave. I assume he will be asked questions by the police due to the role he played. Why is he still in office? #Marr perpetuating doubt in democratic institutions by asking “Do you trust the EC?”. That shouldn’t be up for debate
But the fact that it has to be asked is so revolting. And his answers are ever more reflective of how far these people are willing to go to undermine our institutions. This ISNT a debate. This is the law vs. Politicians and people who broke the law or were complicit
Dominic Raab is basically arguing that it doesn’t matter if people break the law during an election. If you win, you win. Even if you cheated to get there. THESE are the people you want your children to look up to? To have as their leaders?
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Vote Leave chief executive @matthew_elliott confirms to ⁦@JasonFarrellSky⁩ that Electoral Commission has initially concluded that its late EU Ref donation to Be Leave was “incorrect” and that it overspent after whistleblower testimony in March news.sky.com/story/vote-lea…
Elliott calls the ex Leave campaign aides “fantasists” - “the motivation of the so called whistleblowers and all three of them who came forward to the commission want to have a second referendum."
We haven’t had formal report from Electoral Comission, VL team basically gone public with their rebuttal before publication... but Dermot asked co-convener of Vote Leave campaign committee Michael Gove in March if he knew about these Beleave donations:
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.@stephen501 is another #leave voter who wishes he had the chance to vote again now the facts of what #brexit means are becoming clear. Good on you for coming forward Stephen, you are one of millions, just need others to show the same humility! #remainernow #finalsay #fbpe
Here is more from Stephen following his visit to Germany. Highlights the ideologues lies that EU will give us a good deal as they need us more than we need them.
Here is another tweet from #remainernow @stephen501 after he regretted his leave vote he wrote to his MP. Hopefully he can also help persuade other leave voters he knows to do the same now #brexitreality is hitting!
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