VIDEO THREAD - While the country's attention was fixed on Dominic Cummings in parliament, other members of Vote Leave were rewriting history to the Public Administration & Constitutional Affairs Committee. This is Alan Halsall and you almost felt sorry for him...almost. 1/8
Vote Leave and the truth were never close acquaintances. The truth is Dominic Cummings submitted a 112 page dossier to the Electoral Commission containing emails, minutes of meetings and evidence that coaching of witnesses was being given. The outcome is indisputable...2/8
Vote Leave was found guilty of taking what was a hashtag that morphed into a Facebook group that had only spent £21 and constituting it into an unincorporated organisation that, under a common plan, acted as a conduit to circumvent our strict laws on electoral expenditure. 3/8
Vote Leave's defence that this group had a different voice, a different message and a different target audience to Vote Leave is laughable as this was exactly the strategy outlined here by another of their key members, Daniel Hannan. 4/8
It's little wonder that Alan Halsall wanted the police to investigate their electoral crimes; under Dame Cressida Dick the Met couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo. After a two year pseudo-investigation, into Alan Halsall signing a false declaration, the case was dropped. 5/8
Back at the Public Administration & Constitutional Affairs Committee, Dominic Grieve made an insightful comment before Gisela Stuart, who presided over the campaign that left no lie untold in its bid to steal our rights, freedoms and protections, continued the gaslighting. 6/8
Amongst the 112 page dossier Cummings provided to the Electoral Commission is this gem of an email from the slithy Matthew Elliott, an email that predates the DUP's involvement and reveals Vote Leave were actively pursuing opportunities to circumvent electoral spending laws. 7/8
For anyone unfamiliar with the DUP's involvement in the EU referendum, they received a £435,000 donation from a Scottish Conservative activist, who couldn't afford to make such a donation, the DUP then conspired with the Tories to keep it secret. 8/8 irishtimes.com/news/ireland/i…
And for anyone unfamiliar with the sheer arrogance of the person who originally set-up Vote Leave in Tufton St, a proponent of Hayekian theory and a disciple of the Atlas Network, here's Andrew Tyrie berating Matthew Elliott for being Matthew Elliott before the EU referendum.1/3
Failing to gaslight the Treasury Committee Chair, Andrew Tyrie, the 'Head of Slytherin' now attempts and fails again to turn on what little charm he possesses. 2/3
Now completely flogging a dead horse, Elliott's sense of entitlement prevents him from doing what anyone with a modicum of common sense would do in this situation. 3/3
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Nominated for peerages in Liz Truss’s resignation honours list, Matthew Elliot, Mark Littlewood, Jon Moynihan and Ruth Porter, are all connected to the nexus of opaquely funded right-wing lobby groups emanating like Japanese knotweed from 55 Tufton Street. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/brexit/lo…
Unfamiliar with the work of Matthew Elliott? Here is the brazen CEO of Vote Leave, which, incidentally, was originally based at 55 Tufton St.
Unfamiliar with the work of Mark Littlewood? Here is the brazen Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs, a lobby group masquerading as a charity, who are based just around the corner from 55 Tufton St.
Perfectly normal - "Truss’s most senior adviser, Mark Fullbrook, has been interviewed by FBI agents about an alleged criminal plot to bribe an American politician and influence a US election." thetimes.co.uk/article/no-10-…
Prosecutors have said those responsible for the alleged conspiracy to subvert the democracy of Puerto Rico “struck a blow to the heart of our democracy and eroded the confidence of our citizens in their institutions of governance”.
Strangely echoing our own laws that "ensure fairness, confidence and legitimacy at electoral events" - the same laws that both Vote Leave and LeaveEU broke, the same laws that this Tory government have been attempting to desecrate ever since the 2016 EU referendum.
As the sixth anniversary of the UK’s vote to leave the EU approaches and Jacob Rees-Mogg scrambles to invent imaginary Brexit benefits, economists begin to quantify the immense damage caused by a small group of well funded electoral lawbreakers. ft.com/content/7a209a…
“Would I like to be in a better place on Brexit?” asked one pro-Brexit member of Johnson's cabinet. “Yes, absolutely. But we’ve got to find a way of doing it without it looking like we’re running up the white flag and we’re compromising on sovereignty.” 🤦♀️
"Using the beginning of 2021, economists have shown how the UK’s trade performance compares with those of other countries before and after the TCA’s imposition. The results have been increasingly ugly."
"Banks is suing not the Observer, but Cadwalladr in person over one sentence in a TED Talk in April 2019 where she said: “And I’m not even going to go into the lies that Arron Banks has told about his covert relationship with the Russian government.” bylinetimes.com/2022/01/17/arr…
Remarkable that Banks' ghost writer, Isabel Oakeshott, had inferred exactly the same in 2018 when she wrote in The Times, "In Arron Banks and Andy Wigmore the Kremlin had spotted men it could use. Then they vaulted to the heart of western politics." thetimes.co.uk/article/a-clas…
The Brexit backing, Murdoch owned Times appeared to infer this relationship on other occasions too - "Rise of Brexit’s bad boys was fuelled by Stalin’s vodka. Emails show the Ukip donor Arron Banks and his sidekick Andy Wigmore got a fair wind from Russia" thetimes.co.uk/article/rise-o…
Dear .@CommonsSpeaker here is .@Keir_Starmer asking a straightforward question to which .@BorisJohnson responds with a straightforward lie. Is there anything further you need to put an end to this farce?
WATCH the full exchange from 28th April 2021 that proves the liar has absolutely no understanding of 'when you're in a hole stop digging'