Yes I did my friend, the assumption that was made was it was counted as overspending due to the fund not being legitimate

Even though they were

> Leave overspent!!!

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> Well so did remain

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> This is dum

At the very least

At the very very least

Divide by zero<:npc:502497359419408384>

It was a fair game of overspending.


.... Apart from the 7m in leaflets

Let's ignore that

"Boris lies boris lies, he touches thighs!"

and government importing foreign powers to also put pressure down

remember america guud man

you have 2 authoritarian-ish governments ... and someone says "hey do you want to get rid of one of those" ... and still millions voted to keep it :/

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Found more on the spending

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-vote-leave-spending-costs-eu-referendum-uk-election-boris-johnson-a8537791.html

Turns out vote leave did overspend but it was due to bad advice by the watchdog

Good jobe guys

waiting for the supreme court to say actually they've decided that those who wrote the law, wrote it wrong and the misinterpritation was correct interpritation

"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)