official referendum Vote Leave campaign broke electoral law - @ElectoralCommUK. VL had common plan with “Beleave” to exceed legal spending limits. “substantial evidence” re common plan”. Vote Leave’s Halsall & Beleave’s Darren Grimes reported to Met Police re false declarations 
“These are serious breaches of the laws put in place by Parliament to ensure fairness and transparency at elections and referendums. Our findings relate primarily to the organisation which put itself forward as fit to be the designated campaigner,” says Elect Comm’s Bob Posner
Elect Comm: “Vote Leave has resisted our investigation from the start, including contesting our right as the statutory regulator to open the investigation. It has refused to cooperate, refused our requests to put forward a representative for interview”,
Elect comm: “...and forced us to use our legal powers to compel it to provide evidence. Nevertheless, the evidence we have found is clear and substantial, and can now be seen in our report.”
Straightforwardly contradicts VL chief spoiler interviews where he said he wasn’t asked
Straightforwardly contradicts VL chief spoiler interviews where he said he wasn’t asked
Conclusions:
“All Mr Grimes’ & Beleave’s spending was incurred under a common plan with Vote Leave”
“Beleave exceeded spending limit by £666k”
“VL failed to comply with investigation notice”
“VL declines to be interviewed”
£20k fine insufficient a inadequate for serious offences
“All Mr Grimes’ & Beleave’s spending was incurred under a common plan with Vote Leave”
“Beleave exceeded spending limit by £666k”
“VL failed to comply with investigation notice”
“VL declines to be interviewed”
£20k fine insufficient a inadequate for serious offences
Full report: electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/…
From report: VL chief Dominic Cummings, having reached spending limits, persuades a hedge fund multi-millionaire to give an “entirely legal” donation to Darren Grimes to spend on some “social media ninjas” - ie Aggregate IQ
