"Mr Justice Leggatt said the commission had “misinterpreted the definition of ‘referendum expenses’”, adding: “The source of its error is a mistaken assumption that an individual or body which makes a donation to a permitted participant cannot thereby incur referendum expenses."

"As a result of this error, the Electoral Commission has interpreted the definition in a way that is inconsistent with both the language and the purpose of the legislation.”

They upheld their decision but ruled that they didn't understand their own rules.

It kind of doesn't matter anyway given the remain mailshot, that dwarfs anything leave could have achieved

Real constitutional reform is needed urgently

So yeah

Inc, the abolishment of the bbc and the supreme court

The Russian brexit narrative has been destroyed by the FT article

And yes leave overspent but due to an electoral commision fuck up

It's nearly the 5th of November, the kind of reform we need

imagine Russia actually did help us exit the union

The government straight up spent 7m on leaflets

@system11 we still have some really good legal history that something like that would destroy

precedent is something hard to build

God I wish the myth that boris lied to the queen would go away

we just need to undo a bunch of shit done in the past bunch of decades

@Joshu the only way for that to go away would be for the queen to say something

They made up a new interpretation of the law and then retroactively applied to

Because the prorogation was too long

It's literally that simple

that leaflet was what tipped me over into voting out

which goes against our principles, retroactive prosecution is awful

(even if the prosecution isn't a criminal one)

And if anything it was his legal advice

yep

also, this kind of thing is creating support for him

so, short term losses?

maybe aiming for long term power?

I have no fucking idea, I don't think anyone does, it's all a speculation game now

the supreme court together with bercow have thrown out all precedent

When the elites fail to enforce the will of the people

The populists come

And when the populists fail to deliver concrete chnage

The elites come

And thus it cycles

I think the term populist is an oxymoron - wouldn't anyone who wins by popular vote by definition be populist?

Populists are very defined though

You can identify them

Yes it's a shitty label

But yeah

The elitists have failed in the USA and the UK