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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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The point of a "flexible" constitution is that it is responsive to underlying political reality and fits around core principles like Parliamentary supremacy. Its strength is that it cannot be 'gamed' by a constitutional player.

This is what we are, collectively, missing.
This is critical stuff. What Chris Heaton Harris is here saying is that an Executive of a (minority) Government can thwart the will of a Parliament that is said to be supreme. If our constitution means anything it must mean that Chris is wrong.
However the problem is that our approach to the relationship between an Executive that (we assume) will deliver no deal rather than risk no Brexit and a Parliament that (we learned yesterday) will not contemplate no deal is tangled in the weeds of Parliamentary convention.
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Labour is terrified of bringing a vote of no confidence that it knows it will lose because it lacks a plan for what happens next. It's neither in Government nor Opposition.
There is no key Brexit legislation currently before Parliament and we could well leave the EU with no deal before any comes before it.

Labour is chicken, clueless and enabling.
I hate this Government. I hate it for the contempt it has shown for our democratic superstructure: for governance, for the rule of law, and for constitutional norms. But you have to give it this: at least it has a plan. Labour has nothing and is nowhere.
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Absent Laffer curve effects, lifting our top rate to 70% for those paid £2m+ would raise about £6.5bn. But a HMT report found lifting the top rate to 50% raised little because of those effects. But what's oft missed is Govts can reshape the Laffer curve.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Here's that HMT 2012 paper google.com/url?sa=t&sourc…
And here's a piece I wrote on Laffer some time ago. waitingfortax.com/2015/09/07/laf…
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Hey, I am using this space to share my thoughts on the film that portrays my husband, Matthew Elliott, who was Chief Executive & architect of the Vote Leave campaign. For the record, I have not read any other review of the film other than my husband’s.
It was actually the Tate Britain where we went the first time I met Matthew’s parents in Feb 2013. Matthew ducked out quickly to get a haircut and left me with them, which was fine with me. We settled in the Turner section, not in front of Copley’s Battle of Jersey, as shown.
Funny how it starts there
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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”
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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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1. OK, John, since you’ve asked this question, let me try to explain this issue.
2. In their application Vote Leave made it clear they weren’t seeking to set out future relationship with the EU, but instead their “sole purpose” was to campaign to leave the European Union and maximise voter participation and turnout.
3. The application also states that the campaign will represent smaller groups. That the full range of options arguing for a ‘Leave’ outcome deserve to be heard, and they have to be heard for a successful outcome.

That all their concerns are ‘legitimate’ and ‘equally valid’.
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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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