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‘Bad Boys of Brexit’
The “political elite” forces behind the Brexit campaign pose a danger to democracy, according to an MEP determined to expose myths surrounding the leave vote.
Molly Scot Cato has launched a website aiming to challenge the assumption that the EU referendum was a shining example of collective people power and shed some light on who is really taking back control.
Bad Boys of Brexit lists the movers and shakers who led and financed the leave campaign that resulted in Britain voting to exit the European Union.
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“I wanted to look into what the people who drove the leave campaign stood to benefit,” the South West MEP tells Bristol24/7.
“There were some who stood to benefit personally and those that gambled against the pound. Then there are people who do not like the environmental protection the EU offers – something they call red tape.
“When you put all of these together, you see they have a very particular view of what the EU should be. They are the political elite.”
The majority in Bristol voted to remain
Working alongside a couple of allies, the Green MEP who stood as a parliamentary candidate against the Bristol West MP Thangam Debbonaire in the June 2017 General Election, created the website in her own time. It had 40,000 people visiting on its first day.
Bristol Green colleagues have been praised her work:
Scott Cato has long been an outspoken critic of Brexit and claims there should have been a major investigation into how the campaign was run.
“We were quite disturbed ourselves by the danger to democracy,” she continues.
“We have freedom and we have to defend it on a daily basis. Making it about taking back control was a big lie, it was them that took back control and people were manipulated into thinking they had power when actually it was taken away from them.
“We will carry on working – I think people need to know this.”
Arron Banks was the Leave campaign’s biggest backer
The website features a list of Brexit’s bad boys and claims to describe not a conspiracy theory, but a conspiracy fact.
Among those named is Thornbury-based multi-millionaire Arron Banks, a prominent leave campaigner and backer, who is at the centre of an investigation by the Electoral Commission into whether or not he and/or his company broke rules during the Brexit campaign.
Scott Cato is urging readers to use the information on the website to “reinforce the growing understanding that Brexit can, and must, be stopped”.
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