More on the intersection of Brexit, Trump and the Russian Government

[suffragette]

Brexiter questioned about where his £9m of backing for leave campaign came from

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jun/12/arron-banks-tells-mps-i-have-no-business-interests-in-russia

After the hearing, the committee chairman, Damian Collins, said: “Banks and Wigmore themselves put on the record that they frequently lie, exaggerate, misspeak and misunderstand. So it is difficult for the committee to know if we should take all of their answers seriously when it comes to data sharing and misuse, campaign spending, and their meetings with high-ranking Russian officials.”

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The businessman was attending the hearing in the aftermath of the leak of a cache of emails belonging to him, Wigmore and others, which suggested his dealings with Russia were far more extensive than previously thought.

He had previously said in the book The Bad Boys of Brexit that he attended one “six-hour boozy lunch” with the Russian ambassador in November 2015, several months before the Brexit vote, at which they drank vodka supposedly distilled for Joseph Stalin.

Banks and Wigmore also told MPs they had passed a phone number for the Trump transition team to Yakovenko at another lunch they had with him in November 2016, a few days after their visit to Trump Tower when they met the then president-elect after waiting in the building for six hours. “What’s wrong with that? We gave them a telephone number,” Banks said.

[TimeSnowDemos]

1. Brexit is a hoax.

A bunch of conmen, running a xenophobic and racist campaign, convinced a tiny majority of voters (only 35% of the electorate voted for Brexit), based on deliberate lies and empty promises, to vote for something the UK government STILL can't define.

And hey and BTW, the Leave side broke campaign finance laws and conspired - and have admitted as much - with Russians, who were running the same social media strategy in the UK as they did in the US.

Now two years later the Brexit government, the people meant to be negotiating Brexit, still can't tell you what Brexit means. Who voted for that? Exactly no one.

It was a lousy example of democracy, but even that is probably being extremely generous.

[triron]

2. Certainly needs to be investigated!

[TimeSnowDemos]

5. By the time...

... that happens 60m UK citizens will have watched their country get destroyed.

[jcgoldie]

3. So what you're saying is..

The parallels to the Trump campaign are erie.

[TimeSnowDemos]

4. Oh yes

And not accidentally. Exact same players. Sure didn't the chief Brexit clown also stump for Trump? Yes, yes he did.

And that's just one of hundreds of connections.

The whole thing is a scam.

[suffragette]

6. Exactly. And they both throw a cloud of lies up in the air to obfuscate their roles and connection.

Hard to cut through the lies when they blithely lie about anything and everything, then contradict themselves on the next day to purposefully make it even more confusing.

[TimeSnowDemos]

7. I think "Cloud of lies"

was the official Brexit slogan.

[suffragette]

8. It sure fits. Also does as Trump's ongoing actions and policies.

[Mc Mike]

9. He had a very important lunch to get to, with the Paisley crowd.

[suffragette]

10. How fitting. Someone to help stir up more

Troubles.

[Mc Mike]

11. They're the UK's teabaggers.

Funny how they're there to help Banks cut and run from the inquiry.

[suffragette]

12. Yup. They are quite the nasty team and will get what they want by hook or crook, no matter

the devastation they impose.

[Mc Mike]

13. Modern day Molotov Von Ribbentrop pact.

Putin sized up his western enemies, and found their weak spot -- rabidly 'anti-commie' nazi nihilists who would do anything, commit any treason, so they could get power.