The Childish Stunts and Real Backers of the Tories’ #Brexit Campaign | Beastrabban\’s Weblog
Dominic Cummings: Apparently he’s a close friend of Michael Gove. What does THAT tell you?
Private Eye’s issue for the 23rd January -4th February 2016 issue had some very interesting snippets in their piece, ‘Cummings and Goings’ on page 12. The article was about how the head of the Vote Leave campaign in the Conservative camp, Dominic Cummings, was so obnoxious that he managed to alienate a sizable number of his former colleagues. His former National Comrades were leaving for other jobs, including UKIP, rather than stay working with him. Part of this dissension is over the stupid stunts Cummings had resorted to. For example, he has infiltrated students in to heckle a CBI conference, and threatened businesses backing the EU. The Eye states that his critics fear this is ‘making Eurosceptics look like a juvenile mob’.
Well, it’s impossible to say ‘No’ to that.
More interesting, perhaps, than the personality politics involved is the real group behind the Tories’ Out campaign. According to the Eye, it’s the Taxpayers’ Alliance.
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Another loathsome and nasty misfit.
https://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2016/02/20/brexit-in-urging-us-to-stay-david-cameron-spells-out-why-we-should-leave/
It is a pity if the OUT campaign is dominated by the tories.
That may be the strategy – but it is far too important a decision to leave it to the lying politicians.
This is an excellent article. We need to sort out our own problems and not be embroiled in the undemocratic EU. I hope the vote is out and we go. (Cameron as well, for starters.) Whether Merkel and Juncker will allow it is another matter – wasn’t it the Irish who were instructed to vote again as the first referendum was ‘unacceptable’?