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

[Perknose]

Britain’s election watchdog has fined Boris Johnson’s Vote Leave group and reported it to the police . . .

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 more than £675,000 with controversial data firm Aggregate IQ under a common plan with Vote Leave—spending that should have been declared by Vote Leave, but was left out of its spending returns.

Aggregate IQ, which received about £2.7 million from Vote Leave during the campaign, has since been suspended from Facebook over its reported links with defunct data firm Cambridge Analytica.

The Electoral Commission also criticized Vote Leave for failing to cooperate with its investigation, with director Bob Posner saying: “Vote Leave has resisted our investigation from the start, including contesting our right as the statutory regulator to open the investigation.

More lovely news.

 

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For those that don't know, AggregateIQ gave way to Cambridge Analytica's modeling platform.

https://gizmodo.com/aggregateiq-created-cambridge-analyticas-election-softw-1824026565

This group has nothing but sinister intent.

 

[sandorski]

Might be grounds to Re-Vote? I suspect many would jump at the chance after the shitshow it has turned into.

 

[mikeymikec]

Might be grounds to Re-Vote? I suspect many would jump at the chance after the shitshow it has turned into.

No chance on the planet (assuming something completely absurd doesn't occur like BJ and Nigel Farage are revealed to by cyborgs of Russian design). Even the topic of a second referendum after a deal has been agreed with the EU has been ruled out, but that aside, the topic is political cancer: It has split the main two parties as badly as it split the country in 2016.

Anyway, isn't it more fun to see how will claim the title of Real Ultimate Fucktard, Donald Trump or the UK for voting Brexit?

 

[sandorski]

No chance on the planet (assuming something completely absurd doesn't occur like BJ and Nigel Farage are revealed to by cyborgs of Russian design). Even the topic of a second referendum after a deal has been agreed with the EU has been ruled out, but that aside, the topic is political cancer: It has split the main two parties as badly as it split the country in 2016.

Anyway, isn't it more fun to see how will claim the title of Real Ultimate Fucktard, Donald Trump or the UK for voting Brexit?

As a Canadian, I kinda feel stuck in the middle as both Nations have shared strong influence on Canada throughout its' history.

 

[realibrad]

So the cheating was that they spent $660,000 over the spending limit right?

 

[vi edit]

So the cheating was that they spent $660,000 over the spending limit right?

That and who they spent it with is certainly a bit of a sensitive spot. There's A LOT of shady shit surrounding CA and AIQ. Office raids, whistleblowers, and so on. There was a serious propaganda and destabilization movement going on there.