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Thursday, July 26th, 2018

It’s Official: The Brexit Campaign Cheated Its Way to Victory

Author:     JAMIE ROSS
Source:     Daily Beast
Publication Date:     07.17.18 6:13 AM ET
 Link: It’s Official: The Brexit Campaign Cheated Its Way to Victory
Stephan:   The fog of corruption and lies spewed out by Trump, his administration, and his congressional quislings has so befuddled America that almost everything else is lost in the toxic mist. But this story from the U.K. should not go unremarked. It now seems certain that the BREXIT divorce that will affect the lives of everyone in the U.K. was a rigged deal. Here is the story.

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The official campaign that campaigned for people in Britain to vote to leave the European Union broke the law, according to the country’s election watchdog, which has now referred the matter to police.

With Theresa May’s government teetering on the brink of collapse as the pro- and anti-EU factions within her party go to war, the announcement from the Electoral Commission that the campaign group fronted by Boris Johnsoncheated is bringing Brexit tensions to boiling point, with some lawmakers urging a re-run of the vote.

The group—known as Vote Leave—was chosen as the official campaign group for the June 2016 referendum. The Electoral Commission says it funneled money into a sister campaign to get around spending limits, meaning that it exceeded the £7 million ($9.2 million) maximum by £500,000 ($660,000)

Vote Leave has been fined £61,000 ($80,000) while Darren Grimes, the

founder of sister campaign group BeLeave, was fined £20,000 ($26,000). Grimes and Vote Leave official David Halsall have both been reported to police.

The investigation from the Electoral Commission found that BeLeave spent […]

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