Brexit A Russian Plot

[Gromit]

// Arron Banks, the millionaire businessman who bankrolled Nigel Farage’s campaign to quit the EU, had multiple meetings with Russian embassy officials in the run-up to the Brexit referendum, documents suggest.

Banks had:
• Multiple meetings between the leaders of Leave.EU and high-ranking Russian officials, from November 2015 to 2017.

• Two meetings in the week Leave.EU launched its official campaign.

• An introduction to a Russian businessman, by the Russian ambassador, the day after Leave.EU launched its campaign, who reportedly offered Banks a multibillion dollar opportunity to buy Russian goldmines.

• A trip to Moscow in February 2016 to meet key partners and financiers behind a gold project, including a Russian bank.

• Continued extensive contact in the run-up to the US election when Banks, his business partner and Leave.EU spokesman Andy Wigmore, and Nigel Farage campaigned in the US to support Donald Trump’s candidacy. //

Banks is due to face a Parliamentary Select Committee next week, which could be interesting. This is the lead story in todays Sunday Times.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/revealed-brexit-backer-arron-bankss-golden-kremlin-connection-7nbwc7m58
(This is behind a paywall, so the above text is from the Observer).

[cassa333]

And how did the Russians influence the result?

I knew where my vote would go long before the campaign got underway. And TBH regardless of where the money came from to compaign and why the donor gave it doesn’t alter the facts of what was said and by whom.

And let’s not forget that project fear helped the leave vote no end. Project fear and remain showed people what it means to be tied to a corrupt and unedifying organisation Just because it was easier to not change.

Thank you leave donors whoever you are and thanks project fear. You did your bit for democracy.

[ToraToraTora]

well if it is a Russian plot, cheers Vlad!