The Brexit campaign group Vote Leave has been fined £61,000 and referred to the police by the Electoral Commission, which says it dodged spending limits by funnelling spending through the youth group BeLeave.
The revelations about the cheating and illegality at the heart of Vote Leave are shocking, but sadly not especially surprising. No one with half a brain believed that Vote Leave and their junior partners at BeLeave were acting independently of one another – particularly given BeLeave (run by a young fashion student) “chose” to spend the vast bulk of the money they had been gifted with the very same company that provided data analytics for Vote Leave. The brazenness of the mendacity is both appalling and revealing.
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