This also demonstrates how Brexorcism is a social process and just how difficult online Brexorcism is where we are only working with 7% of the comms medium.
Oh dear, our new friendship is not going very well really
Colin asked to be my friend, but now he thinks I'm a money launderer and that I'm threatening him.
He provides excellent case material for my next book on the poverty of Brexorcism using social media.
This is Colin
Colin lives on the Isle of Wight
It's 1948 there still
cc @mrjamesob A bit like your caller on Tuesday James when you put the faders on. Colin is angry with me but he really wants to love me. He can't decide.
For the last 7 years, the fight to reverse Brexit has been conducted mainly on the streets and in social media. But, as the recent NI Protocol agreement makes clear, going forward the fight is going to take place in the corridors of power in Westminster and of course in MSM ..
The European Movement must evolve with changing times and Patience Wheatcroft is uniquely positioned to lead us in that mission. Patience offers our movement the following key advantages:
For some months I have attempted to resolve a worrying problem with a concerted smear campaign against me by Grassroots for Europe and The European Movement. I have had no reply in private from CEO Anna Bird, so I have decided to go public. Here is the summary 1/
The WhatsApp group where much of this smearing takes place is overseen by Anna Bird and Lord Andrew Adonis. Andrew does not like uncomfortable truths and blocks people who he disagrees with. Thus I have no route to resolution with him. 2/
The 'mob' also follow the leader, sometimes without knowledge of what actually took place. This is not without consequence. For example, I am blocked from attending the March to Rejoin, was blocked from attending a meeting with @gavinesler. 3/
Update on "our Ken" - the ex Met Police officer who sent a threatening letter, placed rubbish in the garden, then escalated to spray painting the property and wielding a knife. His complaint? Having anti Brexit stickers on my dustbing
To avoid going to court (His son works for Kent #Police and Ken is a football coach for young people), Ken finally paid £3000 for the restoration of the property (some 75% of the sum requested). It becomes clear that #Brexit doesn't pay.
Ken's main complaint (apart from the fact that I don't accept his form of democracy and that "I lost") was his claim that my anti-Brexit stickers were lowering property values in the area. I have not been able to verify the matter, nonetheless ...
I had some feedback that we don't make a big enough footprint on mainstream media and that Femi Oluwole was the only person who did this. brexitrage.com/media/
Certainly I don't have the financial backing of George Soros nor a media agent but I realised that we have done rather well from zero budget and zero support.
Over the years, we have disproved the myth that you cannot gain credible coverage in mainstream media without an agent or a budget, even the hard Brexit media. We have had features on Brexit from The New York Times to BBC Sunday Politics to France 24, ZDF, Swiss TV ...