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Celebrity Doctor David Bull MEP of the Brexit party has filled up my timeline today. David is eager for us to leave the EU but in 2016 he thought quite differently...writing this letter warning of impact on NHS
So why has David changed his mind? Well who knows. All I can speculate is this - in 2018 Dr Bull joined Pagefield the PR/image management company....
Pagefield is run by Mark Gallagher a well known and active Brexiter
Here's a heavily redacted letter that Gallagher sent to David Davis when Brexit Secretary offering all sorts of help.
In the run up to the EU elections it transpired that a member of the Pagefield team was actively recruiting MEP candidates on behalf of the Brexit party. Many of those had links to Pagefield itself.
If you're wondering what the redacted bit says I can't help you. It was an FOI request. The links between Pagefield and the Brexit party are there but I've received a lot of abuse - some of it via mutual acquaintances- for pointing it out and am a bit bored of being a lone voice
When I've raised it with people in that business they've kind of gone "yes of course that's going on" which is equally depressing
Claire Fox is also represented by Pagefield as is her Institute of Ideas and the yawnathon festival that goes with it
Seems Dr Bull changed his mind during the EU referendum via @cockneycampaign
Watch "David Bull explains why he has decided to leave the EU" on YouTube
@cockneycampaign Incredibly this video is just one week after the letter at the top of the thread.
So David Bull signed this letter on 14th June 2016 but just a week or so later he turned up at Vote Leave's celebration of the Brexit win. Was he confused? How could such a turnaround happen so quickly?
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“He didn’t have the common decency to see if we were OK, and never even looked back."

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