Leave.eu

[Rjk]

Were apparently bankrolled by an American businessman by the name of Robert Mercer (more about him later if I have time). Who subsequently made £690 million as a result of Brexit.

His donations were never declared by leave.eu, which is against electoral law.
It is also illegal to accept donations from a non UK citizen.

Clearly the referendum should be declared null and void and we should have another go

[Elwood Blues]

Were apparently bankrolled by an American businessman by the name of Robert Mercer (more about him later if I have time). Who subsequently made £690 million as a result of Brexit.

His donations were never declared by leave.eu, which is against electoral law.
It is also illegal to accept donations from a non UK citizen.

Clearly the referendum should be declared null and void and we should have another go

Don't think Leave.EU was the official pro leave party though.

[Pearcey3]

Good work Rjk. These outside influences include the proprietors of the right wing rags. Either way its over to the Brexit lot. This is what they wanted so lets see what mess they make of it. They will still end up blaming Blair,immigrants and Brussels.

[Wales-Bales]

Were apparently bankrolled by an American businessman by the name of Robert Mercer (more about him later if I have time). Who subsequently made £690 million as a result of Brexit.

His donations were never declared by leave.eu, which is against electoral law.
It is also illegal to accept donations from a non UK citizen.

Clearly the referendum should be declared null and void and we should have another go

Send my regards to poo-tin

[Rjk]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...droidApp_Tweet


More on Robert Mercer, Cambridge analytica, trump, Farage etc

[Pearcey3]

It was a referendum, there were 2 official campaigns - I dont think leave.eu was one of those - so I guess what they did with someone elses money is up to them.

Just as the Sun used to say "It was the Sun that won it" , that Murdoch rag, owned by an American / Australian has been saying he's been influencing elections since whenever he took over the paper - along with all his other newspapers.

What this Mercer bloke it seems was use Social Media to place advertisements. FaceBook allows you to geo target their users, so you can advertise to Men or Women, pick whatever age group you want, in whatever location you want. You can then select adverts to run on people with interests in certain subjects - photography, music etc - whatever you want. It's how FaceBook makes so much money. I dont know the whys and wherefores of this story you talk about though.

The same sort of advertising model is used by Google and BING, they know roughly what you like and dont like etc .

In the states the Democrat campaign spent about $1.4 billion , whereas the Republicans spent about half that - and they still won, presume they both used the same advertising platforms - it seems one message got through whilst the other didnt - I guess the same was true for the UK referendum.

Yep its targetting a selected audience and the opposition can't do anything about it as they won't be aware of it. It shows Brexiteers as suckers though. They resented Obama's interference during the Referendum campaign yet another American was interfering and his money was pulling strings from behind the scenes.

[Pearcey3]

BS - direct intervention by Obama telling you how to vote was never going to go down well. If Trump had come here and told everyone to Leave - you would have been jumping up and down like a loon looking for a march to join.

Directed advertising, social media advertising, newspaper articles, FULL page newspaper adverts, opinions by 'experts' talkshows, TV debates , radio phone ins etc are all part of the discussion (for both sides) - and there was lots and lots and lots of that - with a record turn out. There were always going to be people who would leave and always those that would remain. Everyone else made an informed decision - as best they could - or didnt vote.

Its not bullshit at all. Its hypocritical of Brexiteers to moan about Obama when at the same time another American was interfering by pumping in loads of money to influence/manipulate the public.

[Wales-Bales]

Its not bullshit at all. Its hypocritical of Brexiteers to moan about Obama when at the same time another American was interfering by pumping in loads of money to influence/manipulate the public.

Have you seen what is going on in the French election? We are certainly not a special case who were chosen for American "interference".

[Rjk]

Have you seen what is going on in the French election? We are certainly not a special case who were chosen for American "interference".

Likewise with Russian interference.

There is now evidence that they had a hand in the 2015 election here..

[Pearcey3]

Have you seen what is going on in the French election? We are certainly not a special case who were chosen for American "interference".

I have not said that we were but pointing out the interference was from both sides of the Referendum campaign

[Wales-Bales]

I have not said that we were but pointing out the interference was from both sides of the Referendum campaign

I supported you on the matter of interference coming from both sides, I was just pointing out that we weren't a particularly special case.

[lardy]

MEPs can get legislative proposals blocked or withdrawn.

[blue matt]

" remain " Voters still whining about the result i see and even more funnier they are still calling the " leave votes " idiots, at least they have stopped saying they are " racist " though