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In this week's episode we chat to James from Halifax. He voted leave in 2016 almost as a protest but also on the basis we would stay in the Single Market. He now has drastically changed his mind for so many reasons and he explains why. We also chat about the #remainernow group visit to parliament last week and the NCA investigation of Mr A Banks.
Boris Johnson is poised to become prime minister thanks to a small, unrepresentative population of Brexiteer voters bent on destruction.
Nigel Farage was lavishly funded by Arron Banks in the year after the Brexit referendum, Channel 4 News has alleged, with the insurance tycoon providing him with a furnished Chelsea home, a car and driver, and money to promote him in America.
Arron Banks has apologised after Leave.EU tweeted a xenophobic meme of Angela Merkel that invoked Britain’s world war victories to target the German chancellor.
Arron Banks broke agreement to suspend Brexit campaigning after Jo Cox murder, investigation finds
08/03/2019
Leave.EU team told to 'up the spend' on Facebook and 'press it harder”, emails obtained by Channel 4 reveal – the morning after the killing.
'You’re wishing a potentially fatal accident onto a sixteen year old girl, why?'
HMRC says millionaire owes money for inheritance tax liability on Ukip donations.
The multimillionaire Brexit backer Arron Banks has lost his libel action against the Observer and Guardian journalist Carole Cadwalladr, in a significant decision for public interest journalism.
Arron Banks: the man who bankrolled Brexit
09/11/2018
Carole Cadwalladr has been covering the biggest pro-leave donor for nearly two years. As each revelation sparks a new investigation, Arron Banks rubbishes her journalism. But those investigations are beginning to bite.
"Farage, Banks and Bannon. They are some of the well-known Bad Boys of Brexit. But there are many more. The Bad Boys of Brexit are an unholy alliance. They are global Money Men, small-state Regulation Burners and people with highly questionable Russian Connections, some of whom have undermined the very foundations of democracy."
Analysis of Theresa May's faltering Brexit proposal. Interview, Bruce Munro, Global Insight, ODT, 12 December 2018
John Sweeney, a BBC investigative reporter, has turned whistleblower and filed a complaint against the corporation with Ofcom, the broadcasting watchdog.
Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt risk making Tory party unelectable if they allow no deal, poll suggests
22/06/2019
New survey suggests many traditional Tories would turn away from leader if UK crashes out of Europe.
Downing Street reveals plans for a light show and a cabinet trip to the north as the Big Ben bonging brouhaha rumbles on.
Legal threat comes as campaigners warn UK government that courts are being used to intimidate journalists.
Brexit-backer Arron Banks repeatedly denied that Leave.EU appealed to National Front supporters – in a bid to get the BBC to drop an investigation
New questions have emerged over leaks of confidential UK diplomatic cables criticising Donald Trump after a 19-year-old Brexit activist was revealed to be the person who obtained them.
Brexit Party: EU opens investigation into Nigel Farage's lavish gifts from millionaire tycoon
21/05/2019
European Parliament quaestor had urged investigation into £450,000 gifts.
Analysis of the Parliamentary defeat of Mrs May's EU withdrawal deal. Interview, Bruce Munro, ODT, Global Insight, 17 January 2019.
Millionaire Brexit-backing businessman Arron Banks has lost his Court of Appeal fight over a six-figure inheritance tax bill on his donations to Ukip.
"Very desperate or very stupid, or both," wrote one person in response.
Banks is suing Guardian journalist for defamation over Brexit backer’s ‘covert relationship’ with Russia.
Comments made by the Sir Kim Darroch, the British Ambassador to the US, on the Trump administration have been leaked to pro-Brexit journalist Isabel Oakshott, with key Brexiteers exploiting them to attack the civil service and diplomatic corps and call for the removal of non-Brexit-supporting civil servants.
Eighth Report of Session 2017–19
Channels opened between Downing Street and the Brexit Party. Arron Banks prepared to donate substantial funds to Tories if a pact with Farage put in place
Olaf agency is carrying out an assessment of payments made by Arron Banks. / The European Union’s anti-fraud watchdog is considering whether Nigel Farage should be investigated for any illegal activity over lavish payment from Arron Banks, the Guardian has learned.
European parliament summons Brexit party leader over failure to declare expenses. / Nigel Farage has been given 24 hours by the European parliament to explain in person his failure to declare lavish expenses funded by Arron Banks, an insurance tycoon under investigation by the UK’s National Crime Agency.
Move follows revelations MEP failed to declare lavish funding from year of Brexit referendum. / The European parliament is to investigate Nigel Farage for failing to declare lavish expenses funded by Arron Banks. The European parliament president, Antonio Tajani, “today refers the Farage issue to an advisory committee”, a source told the Guardian.
The Brexit deadline is hurtling towards us, and citizens across the UK still aren't allowed to know who bankrolls the politicians deciding the country's future.
Carole Cadwalladr digs into one of the most perplexing events in recent times: the UK's super-close 2016 vote to leave the European Union. Tracking the result to a barrage of misleading Facebook ads targeted at vulnerable Brexit swing voters -- and linking the same players and tactics to the 2016 US presidential election -- Cadwalladr calls out the "gods of Silicon Valley" ...
We now know – beyond a reasonable doubt – the EU Referendum was rife with illegal activity and cheating. We cannot stand idly by while our democracy is being attacked. If you rob a bank and get caught, they don't let you keep the money.
Great Brexit Con Job
13/04/2021
Get Brexit Done’ has unravelled in a spectacular fashion; a significant knock to the economy, removal of rights and freedoms, more red tape for business and – the most heart-breaking of all – trouble has returned to Northern Ireland. The obvious answer to this foreseeable problem is for the UK to be part of the single market and customs union.
Leave campaigner Arron Banks facing criminal investigation over Brexit referendum funding
28/09/2019
The Electoral Commission said it had grounds to believe 'a number of criminal offences may have been committed' during the campaign.
Leave ‘very likely’ won EU referendum due to illegal overspending, says Oxford professor’s evidence to High Court
05/12/2018
Analysis finds adverts reached ‘tens of millions of people’ in crucial days after spending limit breached – enough to change the outcome. / It is “very likely” that the UK voted for Brexit because of illegal overspending by the Vote Leave campaign, according to an Oxford professor’s evidence to the High Court.
Nigel Farage received £450,000 from the founder of pro-Brexit group Leave.EU in the year after the Brexit referendum. / Items paid for by Arron Banks included Mr Farage's London home, his car and trips to the US to meet Donald Trump.
MPs say latest revelations show Arron Banks and Andy Wigmore may have misled parliament. / A leader of the Leave.EU campaign suggested sending a “message of support” to the Russian ambassador after the then foreign secretary made a speech that was critical of Russia, documents seen by the Observer suggest.
Labour MP seeks answers amid reports PM stymied security services in 2016.
MI5 had evidence that Arron Banks ‘ordered surveillance’ of information commissioner, MP claims in Commons
22/01/2022
Labour MP alleges Elizabeth Denham was warned by counter-terrorism officers and that ‘her office had to be swept’.
Legal bid driven by concerns that process had been halted by ‘political sensitivities’. / A group including three MPs has begun a legal bid to challenge police over delays to the investigation into alleged offences by leave campaigners in the Brexit referendum.
Emma Briant, an academic expert on disinformation at George Washington University, has unearthed new e-mails that appear to reveal the earliest documented role played by Bannon in Brexit.
The committee acted after Channel 4 News revealed how Mr Farage’s lavish lifestyle was funded to the tune of £450,000 by Arron Banks’ companies.
Nigel Farage could be banned from the European parliament for his failure to declare almost half a million pounds in gifts from Brexiteer donor Arron Banks.
Nigel Farage facing investigation by EU authorities over lavish gifts from millionaire tycoon
18/05/2019
Nigel Farage is facing an investigation by European parliament authorities over claims that he failed to declare nearly half a million pounds in gifts from an insurance tycoon under investigation by the National Crime Agency.
World4Brexit, registered in Michigan for tax purposes, is reportedly expected to get "informal advice" from Steve Bannon.
Nigel Farage’s funding secrets revealed
16/05/2019
Channel 4 News investigation reveals how millionaire Arron Banks spent approximately £450,000 on Nigel Farage to fund lavish lifestyle the year following the EU referendum in summer 2016. / Millionaire insurance tycoon Arron Banks spent close to half a million pounds funding Nigel Farage, who is now the Brexit Party leader.
NZ must help build new global grouping
25/07/2020
When great powers fail, New Zealand and other small states must organise to protect their interests, Robert G. Patman writes.
Observer's Carole Cadwalladr vows to fight 'meritless' latest legal threat from Brexit campaign donor Arron Banks
24/06/2019
Cadwalladr has spent the past two years investigating the Leave.EU co-founder as part of her work exposing the harvesting of millions of Facebook users’ data by the now-defunct Cambridge Analytica and the wider impact of technology misuse on democracy, including in the 2016 EU referendum.
The police force investigating alleged breaches of election law by Leave campaigners during the EU referendum could decide if they believe any offences were committed "within weeks".
Pro-Brexit Leave.EU group accused of faking videos and forging images of migrants committing crimes
16/04/2019
Campaign group led by former Ukip donor Arron Banks accused of 'fake news' over viral video. / Pro-Brexit campaign group Leave.EU has been accused of faking a viral video of illegal "migrants" and forging images purporting to show immigrants committing violent crimes.
eter Jukes tracks Putin’s long war against democracy and the West – and the Russian President’s allies in Britain’s pro-Brexit establishment.
Remainiacs Ep. 104 - EDGE OF DESTRUCTION: Time runs out with guests Roland Smith and David Allen Green
20/03/2019
With Brexit literally hours away, we convene Leaver-turned-Article-50-Revoker ROLAND SMITH and law and policy expert DAVID ALLEN GREEN to stare into the abyss. / May blames Parliament... / Why John Bercow’s Eskine Mayhem isn’t a constitutional crisis... / David discusses the Meaningful Vote in terms of Thanos’s Infinity Stones. The fooling of Arron Banks. Chained to a radiator with Seumas Milne.
Leaked document lays out for first time deal proposed to Leave.EU backer, sparking new questions over Moscow’s role.
Revealed: How Leave.EU faked migrant footage
16/04/2019
An investigation by Channel 4 News also reveals how Arron Banks’ pro-Brexit group appears to have staged photos of migrants attacking women in London.
Russian Interference in Brexit [10 mins]
20/01/2023
The UK government has been asked by the European Court Of Human Rights (ECHR) to respond to ‘credible allegations’ of Russian interference in the Brexit referendum.
Despite an agreement by all groups to suspend campaigning in the aftermath of Jo Cox’s death, Arron Banks instructed the social media team at Leave.EU to “boost” an existing sponsored Facebook ad.
Millionaire Brexit backer Arron Banks eagerly pursued a multibillion-pound gold deal brought to him by a Russian oligarch with links to the Kremlin just months before the EU referendum, Channel 4 News can reveal.
The Brexiters who put their money offshore
09/11/2017
Some of the loudest voices in the debate – many of whom want the UK to be a tax haven – have their own offshore interests.
A shadowy global operation involving big data, billionaire friends of Trump and the disparate forces of the Leave campaign influenced the result of the EU referendum. As Britain heads to the polls again, is our electoral process still fit for purpose?
Theresa May must investigate 'foreign influence and voter manipulation' in Brexit vote, say MPs
18/02/2019
Report warns ‘democracy is at risk’ and turns fire on the prime minister for failure to probe effect on referendum result.
Tom Watson has called for a judicial inquiry into the activities ahead of the Brexit referendum of the Leave.EU campaign and its main backer, Arron Banks, after claims the group faked a video and photos connected to migrants.
The Conservative Party was once seen as Europe's best-oiled political machine. But Brexit and Theresa May have turned it into a smoldering wreck. Now, the party faces the dire prospect of EU elections. /
Six-figure fines must be imposed in worst cases to deter breaches, warns Electoral Commission boss.
What does George Galloway think about Brexit? Everything new Rochdale MP has said about UK leaving EU
04/03/2024
George Galloway has supported Brexit in two different referendum campaigns.
People and Power investigates the curious questions about the referendum. Was the original vote to leave the EU tainted?
As part of our special edition looking at five years since the EU referendum, Alastair Campbell looks at the silence of the Leavers.
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