… and the corruption & criminality of the Leave campaign
Facebook’s role in Brexit — and the threat to democracy (Carole Cadwalladr. Awesome!
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Carole Cadwalladr discovered and interesting document on the Electoral Commission site, it is the proposal to recognise the lead campaigning organisations for the referendum. Here’s her tweet, she’d like some help in reading it.
Brexit twitter sleuths. This is a new unredacted "official sensitive" Electoral Commission doc that someone's found...& that I've never seen before. Lots of details about how & why Electoral Commission picked Vote Leave over GO. Lots of questions...dig inhttps://t.co/19HOe8Oc1Y pic.twitter.com/xKvT2nC3K4
— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) February 10, 2019
and as you will find the document seems to have gone. Fortunately some people got there first. …
- https://t.co/19HOe8Oc1Y | The EC site!
http://bit.ly/2N1PUN3 | @sutherlandweb.co.uk- @the wayback machine
- on this blog
Nothing to see here
This came through earlier in the month, despite the Tory Party being fined, it seems that Craig McKinley, the Tory candidate for Thanet South, in 2015 is not guilty of electoral fraud, it was all down to his local campaign official. I didn’t think that was how the law worked; I didn’t think it was possible to find an Agent guilty and a candidate innocent but hey ho, we live and learn. Of course, they can’t order the election to take place again because it already has. The Secret Barrister wrote about the decision not to prosecute, the Tory’s candidates and agents over their “Battlebus” expenditure, he or she states, the CPS chose not to prosecute because evidence of corruption was likely to be too hard to prove, but,
… In relation to the lesser offence of failing to deliver a true return, the CPS concluded, perhaps charitably, that for for the same reason it was not in the public interest to charge any of the agents or candidates with that offence.
They made an exception for the Thanet South election where they decided to prosecute. … …