I will, I am not surprised especially since it was pointed out that the majority of members on the Electoral Commission had links to the EU / Remain side.

Funding of political campaigns and parties is a murky business but I agree with Aaron Banks (not my favourite person) he is investigated whilst no one says a word about Hungarian George Soros, that stunk.

We need reform starting with the Electoral Commission and then moving on to how parties are funded.

I said at the time I don't doubt that the Brexit campaign broke rules but so did the Remain camp only the press didn't seem to highlight it as much.

Yet another example of how inept our lords and masters are and that is putting it mildly if I was unkind I would say they were bias.

I am not paying much attention to this thread at the moment, and won't get involved too much now, as there are much bigger things to be dealt with.

I assume you are referring to Carole Cadwalladr, who is one of the most rigorous and well informed political journalists working today. You dismiss her all you wish but she has good contacts and knows what she is talking about.

Anyone who thinks that Banks doesn't have some very dirty fingers and a dubious record is fooling themselves. He might have slipped through the noose this time but his connections with the Russians and use of Cambridge Analytica to sway swing voters through social media is pretty well undeniable. Farage is also involved.

My understanding is that the report by our intelligence services into the Russian interference in the 2016 election, which was suppressed prior to the last election, even though it had been released by the select committee, will eventually get published. When it does I think Mr Banks will make sure he is not in the country but somewhere without an extradition treaty with us.

Why on earth George Soros is mentioned as though what he did has any kind of equivalence beats me. His foundations help fund, often in very minor ways, organisations that promote ideals that he approves of. They make no secret of that but they play no role in the organisations they support. Banks was up to his neck in the Leave.EU campaign.

Time will tell. Just be patient.

Why on earth George Soros is mentioned as though what he did has any kind of equivalence beats me. His foundations help fund, often in very minor ways, organisations that promote ideals that he approves of. They make no secret of that but they play no role in the organisations they support. Banks was up to his neck in the Leave.EU campaign.

Time will tell. Just be patient.

"Why George Soros is mentioned"

1. Not by me.
2. Oh, let's see....
..."Mythical Russians funding political outcomes in the country: BAD"
..."Real Hungarians with a history of subverting, ocercing and influencing governments (but all in a "good way", because you AGREE with his politics): GOOD"

You people are a parody of yourselves. No. Codswallop is not a revered, serious journalist. She is the living, breathing personification of confimation bias grasped onto, desperately, by idiots that wish, pray, beg for her bulls*** "conspiratorial connections" to bear any reality at all. To somehow explain away how we were all duped, how it was the evil Russians that led us astray. She reports with zero balance, with zero interest in the misdeeds of those she shares a political opinion with, even if they are as guilty as those she "investigates". She fires off tripe and hearsay that is then speedily retracted on page 57 of the Grauniad, only after her sensationalist bulls*** has worked AC Grayling and his Wisbechian acolytes into a Remainiac lather. Her spidery-web of 'friends-of-friends' accusation-by-association, when applied to the stupid woman herself actually has her working for Trump. No, we know she's not working for Trump, but applying the exact same logic, that's where we get to. Madness.

I hope Banks takes her f***ing house. Just as would have happened to Darren Grimes' mother, had justice not finally prevailed. Leave her with nothing but her cats.

No f*** it. Take those too.

Edited by davenotamonkey (02 May 2020 12.19am)

"Why George Soros is mentioned"

1. Not by me.
2. Oh, let's see....
..."Mythical Russians funding political outcomes in the country: BAD"
..."Real Hungarians with a history of subverting, ocercing and influencing governments (but all in a "good way", because you AGREE with his politics): GOOD"

You people are a parody of yourselves. No. Codswallop is not a revered, serious journalist. She is the living, breathing personification of confimation bias grasped onto, desperately, by idiots that wish, pray, beg for her bulls*** "conspiratorial connections" to bear any reality at all. To somehow explain away how we were all duped, how it was the evil Russians that led us astray. She reports with zero balance, with zero interest in the misdeeds of those she shares a political opinion with, even if they are as guilty as those she "investigates". She fires off tripe and hearsay that is then speedily retracted on page 57 of the Grauniad, only after her sensationalist bulls*** has worked AC Grayling and his Wisbechian acolytes into a Remainiac lather. Her spidery-web of 'friends-of-friends' accusation-by-association, when applied to the stupid woman herself actually has her working for Trump. No, we know she's not working for Trump, but applying the exact same logic, that's where we get to. Madness.

I hope Banks takes her f***ing house. Just as would have happened to Darren Grimes' mother, had justice not finally prevailed. Leave her with nothing but her cats.

No f*** it. Take those too.

Edited by davenotamonkey (02 May 2020 12.19am)