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July 8, 2018 Longrider General News, misanthropy, Political 11

Arron Banks met some Russians.

Arron Banks’ Leave.EU campaign team met with Russian embassy officials as many as 11 times in the run-up to the EU referendum and in the two months beyond, documents seen by the Observer suggest – seven more times than Banks has admitted. The same documents suggest the Russian embassy extended a further four invitations to Brexit’s biggest funder, but it is not known if they were accepted.

Sigh… This is a smear, plain and simple. It is an attempt by the Observer to try to undermine the outcome of a democratic vote by suggesting that it was all manipulated by Putin’s men. No, it wasn’t. Whether Banks and his team met with Russian officials is neither here nor there. Those of us who voted to leave did so because we detest the EU and its lack of accountability and transparency – its complete lack of democratic process. Yes, sure we vote for the parliament (a pointless talking shop) – however the power rests with those who have not been elected thereby disenfranchising the electorates across the continent.

At no time was I influenced by the Russians and I know of no one else who was. The claim that somehow the result was not legitimate because of Russian involvement is typical underhand smear tactics – the usual petulant cries of racism and xenophobia having not worked, it would seem.

11 Comments

  1. Arron Banks was a major contributor to the Leave.EU campaign — which may not have influenced your vote, but that’s irrelevant. What is at issue is Banks’ initial claim that he’d met once, and once only, with a senior Russian, for a “boozy lunch”. If his meetings with other Russian officials (maybe 11 in total?) were so innocent, why the obfuscation?

      • +1 Exactly

        Also “campaign team”:

        1. How many in Leave.EU team?
        2. How many were meeting not as Leave.EU team?

        Business goes on, it’s not purdahed.

        A scurrilous slur.

        Campaign spending?
        Notional value of Obama, EU, BoE, IMF, UN, CBI… pre vote campaigning?

        I would say POTUS speech & press conference in 10 Downing Street would be >£5 million.

        • Well, I was a member of the Leave.EU campaign team and at no point during the entire campaign did I meet either Aaron Banks or any Russians (to my knowledge), embassy staff, KGB or not.

          All I did was wander the streets delivering leaflets and have a stall in the high street doing the same and receiving mixed support from the general electorate.

  2. Yawn. Lisboeta I’d try researching a little about Russia before you start infering they somehow have supernatural powers to influence other countries democratic ( HA HA ) processes. Britain has very little they want, except not to be smeared, and to follow international law and due process which the U.K. seems to have abandonned. There are enormous investment potentials in Russia and Mr Banks being a shrewd business man wold want to capitalise on them. Who he meets with and how often is no one’s business.

    • Yup. This. And he is under no obligation to explain himself to anyone. There is no evidence whatsoever that the Russians were involved in the referendum – apart from in the wet dreams of Guardian reporters.

  3. I don’t know about you, but I now know that I voted LEAVE because I’m stupid, because the Russians told me to, because I’m a working class oik who threw a tantrum, because of something written on the side of a bus, because I didn’t know all the facts and did I mention that I’m stupid?

    Mind you, with Mrs May’s latest plans for Brexit means Remain, I might as well have voted Remain. 🙁

  4. Which ones were Leave.EU? I wasn’t paying attention. Too busy seething at what EU officials were saying.

  5. It’s always the same with the Left. They simply refuse to accept that Remain was an anathema to a very large chunk of the populace. I suspect that many who did want to vote leave were dissuaded by Cameron and Osbourne’s disgusting Project Fear.

    Therefore because us leavers are thick, stupid, racist, xenophobic, homophobic and islamophobic, transphobic and any other effin’ phobia you care to mention it MUST have all been orchestrated by the Russians.

    Utterly pathetic!

  6. Well I may be stupid but I know enough basic physics to know that I can’t stop climate change by buying an under powered kettle.

  7. I’m more concerned that Mrs May met with Angela Merkel prior to the Chequers farce. Was it to collect her orders?

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