Revealed: Ukip whistleblowers raised fears about Breitbart influence on Brexit

[highplainsdem]

Source: Guardian

Two internal Ukip whistleblowers filed complaints to the UK’s Electoral Commission over fears the party was making “unusual arrangements” with a pro-Trump website in the months before the 2016 EU referendum, the Guardian has learned.

The concerns included allegations that individuals who were being paid by Breitbart, a rightwing American news organisation, were working as senior unpaid Ukip volunteers, raising questions in their minds about whether their work could be construed as an indirect political donation by a foreign donor, according to sources who spoke to the Guardian on the condition of anonymity.
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One whistleblower told the Guardian that concerns that the party was turning to “off-balance-sheet financing”, possibly in violation of UK rules, prompted the decision to turn to the electoral commission.

The complaints were brought to the attention of the Metropolitan police by the Electoral Commission, but the police decided to take no further action.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/oct/30/revealed-ukip-whistleblowers-raised-fears-about-breitbart-influence-on-brexit

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So Bannon may have broken UK election laws to influence the Brexit vote.

Lock him up!

[LisaM]

1. This is really interesting to me.

I wonder if they can find grounds to invalidate the vote?

[unblock]

2. as it was a referendum, they could always call a new vote. however,

they have already invoked the process under the e.u. treaty to leave, so it may be too late.

more practically, the rest of europe would have to settle on a price to be paid to let them back in after all this nonsense.

[mopinko]

3. more unpaid volunteers.

well isnt that conveeeenient.

[Blue_Tires]

4. It's like they've been working together since the start...