• Leave.EU fined £70k for breaches of electoral law, chief exec referred to police
    15 replies, posted
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44080096
Leave.EU co-founder Arron Banks called it a "politically motivated attack". How is it politically motivated that you failed to report money you'd spent?
In this day and age, if someone disagrees with you on anything, or fine you for something you did wrong, it's a political attack on them.
A fine won't do shit. To Mercer and gang, 70k is loose change.
The Commission said they would have fined them more if they could These are serious offences. The level of fine we have imposed has been constrained by the cap on the Commission’s fines.
Its fine, Boilrig can pay it off
It was worth it.
"It" being, you know, illegal actions. Glad you finally admit what we've all known the whole time.
no brakes on the empire train, the journey doesn't matter as long as the end goal is achieved
boilrig - Anytime now.......anytime now........................................
But a second referendum is still wrong because it's undemocratic! Meanwhile literal violations of the election law are a-ok. Boilrig you're an intellectual fraud.
As I've explained multiple times, a 2nd referendum is fine, however, as the people who even suggested a 2nd referendum, the questions would be 'would you like to renegotiate the deal' or 'would you like to leave.' A 2nd referendum wasn't going to take you back into the EU, which is why people wanted it, as some sort of second chance when it wouldn't be.
There's absolutely no grounds or reason that the 2nd referendum should have either of those questions, you've just decided that in your head. Same with "take or leave", no, the EU have already stated that they'd happily welcome us back - a second chance is more than on the cards, just because you don't want it doesn't mean nobody else is able to ask as well. The fine sets the ground that dirty tactics were played, and that the legitimacy of the referendum is brought into question. It very much can change the result.
The only thing I would wonder about a second referendum is what happens if it's close again? (In either direction) Would the losing party have the right to call another referendum? Do you keep running them until you get a definitive answer?
Imo future referendum bills (on any topic) should contain a clause banning a second referendum on the same issue for x number of years
and when they involve things as massive as this, they should need a supermajority
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.