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To: scion who wrote (11885)	1/18/2019 7:35:06 AM
From: scion	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12881

Boris Johnson has said in his speech this morning that he did not raise Turkey as an issue in the referendum campaign. As this Telegraph report makes clear, he explicitly made it an issue in the week before the vote. bit.ly It really is time to expose his lies Quote: Boris Johnson and Michael Gove demand David Cameron veto Turkey's membership of the EU Kate McCann, senior political correspondent Matthew Holehouse, brussels correspondent 16 JUNE 2016 • 12:01AM telegraph.co.uk 6:49 AM - 18 Jan 2019 Stephen Moss @StephenMossGdn Guardian feature writer THREAD twitter.com

To: scion who wrote (11885)	7/26/2019 6:41:38 AM
From: scion	Respond to of 12881

Nigel Farage teams up with Trump supporters to raise Brexit funds World4Brexit lobbying body looks to be ‘antidote’ to pro-EU groups in UK Jim Pickard in London and Gillian Tett in New York 8 HOURS AGO ft.com Brexit party leader Nigel Farage has joined forces with a group of Donald Trump-supporting Americans to form a lobbying body to raise money to help the UK’s departure from the EU. The New York launch event for the new group — called World4Brexit — was attended by a string of the US president’s supporters and included figures such as Corey Lewandowski, the former Trump campaign manager, and Phil Bryant, the governor of Mississippi. Details of the event emerged as Boris Johnson, the UK’s new prime minister, took office this week vowing to take Britain out of the EU by October 31 with or without a deal with Brussels. But Mr Farage told the Financial Times he is sceptical Mr Johnson will be able to deliver on his promise. “If Boris [Johnson] does Brexit that is great, but every sense inside me says he will fail,” he said. The MEP said he had been urged by Mr Trump to join forces with Mr Johnson to “realign” British politics. But he played down the idea of a pact between the Conservatives and his Brexit party and questioned whether he could trust Mr Johnson. The World4Brexit initiative is expected to draw informal advice from other former members of the Trump campaign, such as Steve Bannon, who has recently been in close liaison with other rightwing political movements in Europe. Mr Farage, speaking just before the fundraiser at the New York Athletic Club in Manhattan, said the donations would all be “above the board and legal”. The cash would not go to political candidates and would be used to “dig deep, find out who is really running the show”, according to the fundraising documents. Mr Farage described the attempts to raise money as an “antidote” to the pro-EU organisations in the UK supported by George Soros, the billionaire Hungarian-born US citizen. “Guess who is funding all the negativity — it is one George Soros. So let’s not get mad — let’s get even,” he said. Fundraising documents claimed that “George Soros has dropped tens of millions of dollars on the “remain” side of this issue?.?.?.?[so] there is no reason we shouldn’t be able to support the effort to fulfil the people’s vote.” In reality, Mr Soros’s main contribution to the Remain cause has been much lower, involving payments of £800,000 in total to “Best for Britain”, a group campaigning for a second referendum. Mr Farage said that W4B was still in a “start-up” phase, and had been organised “at the American end” by Gerry Gunster, the American political strategist who in 2016 helped Leave.EU, the unofficial referendum campaign for the UK to leave the EU. Its fundraising literature said “we have donors from all across the United States and across the globe”, and stressed that “all our money [raised] will follow the letter of the law in the eyes of the IRS”. As a not-for-profit organisation, it can take donations ranging from $5 to $5,000. Mr Farage said he had enjoyed a warm meeting with Mr Trump at the White House on Wednesday. “Trump looks at the numbers and says it is obvious that these guys [Johnson and Farage] should work together,” Mr Farage said. “Trump wants to see a realignment of British politics. The Remain side is already having a realignment but now the right will have to realign too.” Following Mr Johnson’s victory in the Tory leadership election and appointment as prime minister, the prospect of a UK general election this year has grown. It is now seen by bookmakers as an odds-on probability. In those circumstances the Conservatives face a potential threat from the Brexit party — which came first in the May European elections — unless some kind of deal is reached. Mr Farage said there were “grounds for conversation” if Mr Johnson was “incredibly brave” and called an election. But he admitted that an electoral pact was not “an easy thing” and could cause a “historic split” in the Conservative party given that many of its MPs “loathe” him. “If Boris does a Theresa May and drops the ball I will be the worst enemy he has got and in those circumstances I will try to get the Brexit party to replace the modern day Conservative party,” he said. ft.com