Dear @jeremycorbyn, I’m a Labour member and spoke to you at length at Milton Keynes local council canvassing. You keep saying “Labour respects the referendum”. But why should we “respect” it when
- everybody knows Leave campaign based on lies
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- everybody knows Leave campaign based on lies
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- Vote Leave broke the law, Leave.eu broke the law, BeLeave broke the law, Veterans for Britain broke the law
- they illegally overspent on micro-targeted Facebook ads most of which are lies and which DCMS select committee says “puts our democracy at risk”
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- they illegally overspent on micro-targeted Facebook ads most of which are lies and which DCMS select committee says “puts our democracy at risk”
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- these ads were targeted on basis of personal data obtained by blatant and questionably illegal phishing scam
- 45% of these ads were anti-immigration and stoked xenophobia
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- 45% of these ads were anti-immigration and stoked xenophobia
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- Vote Leave and BeLeave continued to send our ads on day after Jo Cox was brutally murdered by fanatic who’d been radicalised by precisely such anti-immigrant propaganda
- they did this *despite* agreeing to stop campaign in days after Jo’s murder
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- they did this *despite* agreeing to stop campaign in days after Jo’s murder
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- much of £ used to find Leave cane from Arron Banks. Now significant evidence to show he could not have provided this £ personally or through his businesses and that £ probably came from outside UK (also illegal) and in particular from Russia
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So, not only is ref not worthy of “respect”, it is also major risk to our democracy if we “respect” a result where “winning” side flagrantly undermined democracy at every turn.
You, and possibly only you @jeremycorbyn, could easily make this argument to Labour Leave voters
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You, and possibly only you @jeremycorbyn, could easily make this argument to Labour Leave voters
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