Wednesday, 24 February 2016

Cameron is trying to fiddle the referendum using civil service

David Cameron has banned MPs' advisors on the public payroll from helping their MP campaign to leave the EU whilst allowing those working for pro-EU MPs to produce pro-EU propaganda.

Under new rules, civil servants working for MPs who are campaigning to stay in the EU will have full access to government briefings and will work on promoting the EU during the normal working day when you and I are paying their wages. But civil servants working for MPs who are campaigning to leave the EU have been banned from receiving government briefings and are only allowed to promote their MP's leave campaigning in their personal time.

The remain campaign will have double the spending limit of the leave campaign thanks to political parties being given spending allowances, the purdah rules have been changed to allow local councils and quangos to spend taxpayers' money to promote the EU, both EU-funded state broadcasters - Channel 4 and the BBC - are promoting the EU and now our taxes are being used to fund covert state propaganda using civil servants.

This is the sort of thing you expect to find happening in Zimbabwe, not the UK. The only way this will be stopped is with a court injunction banning the remainians from abusing their power to fiddle the referendum. This should be on the to-do list of whichever group is officially designated by the Electoral Commission, along with a request to the UN for international observers to stop any more such abuses of power from taking place.

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What he should be doing is instructing OUR ( not His Civil Service ) to start devising a Brexit Plan

He keeps telling the country that the Brexit supporters have no plan too leave and we would be leaping in the dark if we voted out well surly he never called a Ref without a plan to leave

it is not us that needs to produce a plan it is him , we are campaigning to Leave. The ballot paper asks Remain or Leave not how we Leave !!

We are trying to win the Referendum and get people to vote Leave not form a Government , the responsibility to have an Exit strategy is his no one else's and this strategy should be debated in the Commons
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Martin Andrews · 465 weeks ago

I'm afraid it's all over, I was going to vote leave, but it seems the Nation is being rocked to sleep by a drip, drip combination of misrepresentation, celebrity endorsements and mountains of government paid for propaganda masquerading as factual representation. Shameful, the whole way the government is acting, forget the argument is to me very disturbing. Their actions are more akin to North Korea than one of the most mature democracies. The result is a foregone conclusion, but what a divided and cynical country will have been created post 23/6.

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