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Mar 5 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Um, @LeaveMnsLeave, the Farage-Tice Brexit vehicle, appears to have deleted its tweets & closed its account earlier. And it now seems to have been squatted by someone who’s retweeting me. 😂
Or at least I think that’s what’s happened. Interesting timing given the documents I published 48 hours ago 🧐
Paging @Turloughc! Do you remember the Brexit Party’s PayPal grift? The dodgy af scheme that @Turloughc & @BylineTimes exposed? That was @LeaveMnsLeave. This is feeling less & less coincidental…

bylinetimes.com/2019/10/18/it-…
You know how batshit INSANE this country is? One of key clues as to why the PayPal donation scheme looked to be a money laundering operation is that it was set up by a convicted money launderer.

George Cottrell, who served 8 months in a federal prison
thetimes.co.uk/article/17b515…
I hope people will start to understand why it was so hard writing about this story because it defied all credibility, you literally couldn’t have made this shit up.

But this is the best piece (by @nicohines) on Farage’s money launderer sorry fundraiser.

thedailybeast.com/meet-posh-geor…
This to remind you is what Mrs Tice aka Isabel Oakeshott has to say about Arron Banks, the source of Farage’s funds. She wrote this in Nov 17 but I only put it into public domain 2 days ago.

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Mar 6
This twitter thread crystallised for me why Lebedev coverage today so frustrating.

Russian soldiers are killing women & children trying to flee.

And our prime minister's relationship with the son of an ex-KGB agent is deeply problematic.

AS WE HAVE KNOWN FOR YEARS
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To be clear, @Gabriel_Pogrund's story in ST following up @pcaruanagalizia revelations is important.

A breakthrough moment.

But we have been trying to tell story not just of Lebedev but of Johnson's Russian links FOR YEARS
2/
 thetimes.co.uk/article/boris-…
In July 2019, @nickhopkinsnews did pair of jaw dropping stories. Johnson had attended a NATO summit on sanctions post-Skripal.

He threw off security detail, flew to Italy & partied with Lebedev.

And then the photos turned up: Johnson, a hungover mess
3/
theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
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Mar 6
NEW: Banning Facebook & criminalising journalism are not just the actions of a desperate man, they’re the equivalent of putting on a pair of bell-bottoms & dad-dancing across the internet.

Why I think Putin just lost the information war 👇

theguardian.com/world/2022/mar…
I don’t know what’s going to happen next, no-one does. But the Kremlin’s reputation as invincible masters of information war has taken a beating. Putin’s blunt force command-&-control response v Zelensky’s social media mastery is like watching Stalin versus the TiKTok kids Image
And the Ukrainian war isn’t just playing out across social media. That same social media is impacting the progress of Ukrainian ground operations in real time. The open source #OSINT community is acting as a global battalion of armchair intelligence officers Image
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Mar 6
You know who else was suspected of working for Russian intelligence? The investor behind GB news. Andrew Neil’s former boss.

Here he is named in parliament by Conservative MP, @IoWBobSeely. Any thoughts, @afneil? More ‘conspiracies’?

Christopher Chandler, a lead investor in GB News who also owns influential pro-Brexit Legatum Institute, was named in parliament as result of French intelligence dossier in 2018. He denies it.

The Spectator, you’ll be shocked to learn, didn’t cover it.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5…
Here’s GB News’s company records as reported here by @andrewellson in Times. It has 4 shareholders. One is Chandler. Another of CEO of his investment fund.

Andrew Neil must have done his homework on this because he wasn’t just chair of GB News, he was a director of the company. Image
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Mar 5
God, give me strength.

a) @pcaruanagalizia revealed this 3 days ago.

b) My colleagues @LukeHarding & @dansabbagh & @TownsendMark & I & @openDemocracy’s Jim Cusick & @BylineTimes’ @johnsweeneyroar have done MULTIPLE stories on Lebedev & never a PEEP from you. Not a single one
Woke Andrew Neil might be the worst Andrew Neil yet
This was your contribution to Russia investigation, @afneil. You provided air cover for Banks & Wigmore when we revealed they sent documents about an indicted money launderer working for LeaveEU to the Russian embassy & then denied it when asked by MPs. Take a bow. ImageImageImageImage
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Mar 4
This is Oakeshott with Williamson at launch of her book.

Plus new statement she made about Brexit funder as agent of Russian influence.

Below is thread with new court docs.

Key q: Did Williamson help Johnson bury Russia investigation (involving Johnson)? Is knighthood payback?
Oakeshott gave evidence + statement to Sunday Times in Nov 2017.

This is letter from editor Martin Ivens. He’s left but @ShippersUnbound is still there. Does he know what happened? Can new editor @EmmaTuckerST find out?

Did Oakeshott change mind? Did govt ministers intervene?
News International didn’t cover Banks court case. So they maybe don’t know that Banks’s witness statement conflicts with this.

Letter from editor shows Oakeshott gave emails to Sunday Times in Nov 17.

But Banks says it was Wigmore who gave emails to Sunday Times in June 18.
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Mar 3
NEW: Boris Johnson awards Gavin Williamson a knighthood.

Why *now*? In middle of Russian crisis?

He was appointed defence secretary in Nov 2017 at exact moment, FBI revealed its Trump-Russia investigation began in London.

Is this relevant?
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theguardian.com/politics/2022/…
Williamson was appointed Sec for Defence on Nov 2 2017. Days after FBI revealed it was investigating suspected Russian assets/agents operating in London. Some of these had met Foreign Office officials. These including Johnson, then Foreign Secretary
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 theguardian.com/politics/2017/…
Joseph Mifsud, the Maltese professor, was just one of these. Johnson denied meeting him until a photo emerged. Mifsud subsequently vanished without trace.

Days later, Theresa May made her landmark speech: "Russia we know what what you are doing"
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