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how Vote Leave misled Britain’s farmers over Brexit, a triptych
it's there in black and white from the current environment secretary: "Farmers Will Be Better Off"
"angry farmers booed the newly appointed environment secretary at their annual conference on Wednesday"

ft.com/content/4a3fbc…
hat-tip to @mdbuckley for the old leaflets
and here’s an amazing clip of Boris Johnson saying “no government in its right mind” would cut subsidies for farmers

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Jim Pickard
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the world of government home support schemes can be confusing because it’s an alphabet soup of initiatives

so you could be forgiven for shrugging your shoulders at the news of yet another offer to help first-time-buyers

but....
when the government offers first time buyers £100,000 (on average) off the price of a new build home it’s worth asking where the money is coming from

on the basis that you don’t get owt for nowt

so here’s a brief explainer
under the proposals buyers would get a 30% discount on the property

when time comes to sell, that discount would be locked in for perpetuity.

this would require the owner to get a valuation from a surveyor and sell the property at 70% of that figure to a new 1st-time buyer.
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Jim Pickard
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Breaking:

Corbyn brandishes 450 pages of leaked documents about preliminary “secret” trade talks between US and UK in which Washington demands access to NHS for American healthcare companies
So that’s today’s reading sorted then
Here are the key elements in the pile of documents
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Jim Pickard
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BREAKING:

Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed the Scottish National Party has instigated legal action over the exclusion of parties other than Labour and the Conservatives from ITV's proposed general election leaders' debate
if you're getting a sense of deja vu we've been here before in 2010

telegraph.co.uk/news/election-…
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Karol Cummins
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‼️Boris Johnson is Britain's Donald Trump

– Complete with Breitbart's Bannon and Russia Cover-Up

BORIS JOHNSON
MAIN MEGA THREAD

#Brexit #VoteLeave #BorisJohnson

H/T @paulhanley12
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Boris Johnson is/was advised by Steve BANNON – Trump’s campaign manager & VP of the notorious, now-shuttered electioneering firm Cambridge Analytica, which he co-founded in 2014 w/ hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, who also backed the Breitbart sites.
bylinetimes.com/2019/06/12/bor…
📌Johnson and Bannon became friends when Johnson was still Foreign Secretary and Bannon was still in the White House in early 2017.

📌They have been in contact ever since and the fruits of this friendship have been evident for some time

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Facts Central
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Who funds the IEA, the TPA, the ASI &co?
You know, the RW 'free trade' thick tanks advocating tax havens, "freedom" (no regulations like workers' rights or environmental protection), no welfare (no tax & no free healthcare).
Basically, "Only the wealthier survive" philosophy?
1/n
*Could it be* that it has something to do with defending their funders' interests?
Today, I'm going to tell you the Thick Tanks' Hydra tale.
Featuring Atlas, huge piles of money, tradition, "free speech", useful idiots and a very clear agenda that Brexit/Trump are a part of.
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Take a seat: It's a long story, with a lot of players, including politicians, pretty ladies squatting your TV, the climate change denial's network, the global fascist movement, Silicon Valley/multiname data-stealing/misusing company & private companies' involved in elections.
3/n
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Peter Jukes
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Let's just list some of thes unicorns @afneil @IsabelOakeshott @MarkDiStef

1. Facebook/Cambridge Analytica - yes vindicated
2. Leave EU - recommendation for CPS
3. Vote Leave - various counts of illegality

Over 18 months Carole has been trolled, derided, dismissed
As a lone crusader @carolecadwalla has prompted at least six investigations by the @ICOnews and @ElectoralCommUK with dozens of articles, around 80,000 words and exposing Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and illegality in the #Brexit Campaign
The BBC has ignored or derided her on several of the biggest stories of our times. Meanwhile some other journalists just harp on about the tiny number of corrections (inevitable in all such stories) on this huge issues.
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Steve Parks
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Once again the @frontlineclub is packed with journalists, @Byline_Media folk, and TV cameras for the latest revelations in the Cambridge Analytica / Trump / Brexit saga from two whistleblowers.

Follow this thread for live-tweeting coverage, and forgive my typos...
... first thing to note is that security has been increased a level or two since last week’s gathering. Two checkpoints against the guest list, and a minder scanning the room.

We’re about to kick off...
... the focus of attention tonight is Shahmir Sanni, joined again by @chrisinsilico who was the focus last week. @carolecadwalla will be joining later when she’s filed at the @guardian
Chris is carrying a large ring binder of documents...
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tony nog #FBPE
@tony_nog
1) I know this will be interpreted as more Corbyn bashing, but just spent an evening tweeting with 4 Corbynite remainers who all, in the end, prioritize Corbyn over #brexit.

So let's just put this in context
This, from Corbyn, is Rees-Mogg level nonsense

2) immigrant bashing & falsehoods implying again the EU is holding back his plans. Johnson level bollocks about getting a deal which is like the SM but outside it. Nothing which helps fight or soften #Brexit but just continues Vote Leave narratives.

Below is reality of #Brexit
3) if you read the post below there is only one possible course of action for any Labour leader who professes to care about his voters, and that is to fight to soften or stop #Brexit, and to tell the truth about its likely impacts

opendemocracy.net/uk/martin-donn…
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tony nog #FBPE
@tony_nog
#Brexit
1) Thread - All Brexits are bad and what we voted for
It's often said by brexiters that "it's not all about economics"
However, the *actual* Leave campaign was almost wholly about economic arguments

With the leak of this 2-8% report those arguments are now trashed
2) We seem to have forgotten this however economics played a huge part in the Vote Leave campaign, making up over 2/3rds of the primary arguements. The clear message was we would at the least be no worse off and at best much better off. 4 of the 6 below state this clearly
3) & the fact is voters believed we would be no worse off. People prioritized immigration certainly, but against a backdrop of there being no consequences from Brexit - few are prepared to actually pay for ending FoM
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