Hate crime is unacceptable but police are not reporting an increase after the referendum

The media have been reporting an increase in hate crime since the EU referendum last week with the finger of blame pointed at Brexit and the Leave campaign using immigration as one of its campaign tools.

We reached out to a number of police forces via social media and have had a few responses.

West Mercia Police initially said there was a "slight increase in hate crime" but that it was "unconfirmed whether connected". They have since released a correction saying that reports of hate crime are actually slightly lower since the referendum. West Midlands Police said they "have not seen any notable increase in hate crimes since the referendum" whilst Sussex Police said they "haven't seen an increase in hate crimes reported following the EU referendum" and that there had been one incident reported to them.

This is only three police forces so it's impossible to get a full picture for the whole country but it does cover Birmingham with its large immigrant population, the rural counties of West Mercia and the leafy suburbs and villages of Sussex.

The story originally came the National Police Chiefs' Council and sections have been picked out to suit the agenda of the newspaper or news channel reporting on it. They said "there have been no major spikes in tensions reported" but there had been a 57% increase in reports of hate crime through a website that it runs compared to the corresponding 4 day period four weeks previously. This has ended up, by way of Chinese whispers and lazy and biased reporting, as being a 57% increase in hate crimes sparking an epidemic across the country. The NPCC said "This should not be read as a national increase in hate crime of 57% but an increase in reporting through one mechanism". They go on to say "This is similar to the trends following other major national or international events. In previous instances, crime levels returned to normal relatively quickly but we are monitoring the situation closely".

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said that hate crimes had increased in the capital since the referendum but Met Police haven't issued a statement to back that up. Essex Police have said they have seen an increase in reports of hate crime but a lot of those are complaining about Nigel Farage so are almost certainly part of a left wing hate campaign targeting him. We have yet to find a police force reporting an increase in hate crimes related to the referendum. We have seen a lot of reports of death threats against Nigel Farage and offensive, discriminatory comments against older people but the police don't appear to be interested in those.

Hate crimes are wrong whenever they happen and in whatever volumes but the reality is that hate crimes happen every day, they were happening before the referendum and sadly they will continue to happen in future. The EU referendum does not appear to have contributed to an increase in hate crimes despite press reports to the contrary.

FTSE 100 returns to pre-referendum levels

The FTSE 100 share index returned back to it's pre-referendum level yesterday, causing panic amongst Remain campaigners desperate for support for their campaign to overturn the result of the referendum.

Stock market jitters were expected in the aftermath of the referendum because investors don't like uncertainty. Who the Tories choose as their new leader and who replaces George Osborne when he's sacked as Chancellor will also have an impact on the stock market but the decline was lower than expected and for a shorter period of time than expected.

The big losers since the referendum have been International Airways Group (the owner of British Airways), Persimmon and Taylor Wimpey. However, analysts at Barclays warned at the start of June that IAG shares were overpriced and their outlook was uncertain because of competition from the US, stagnant economic growth in Europe and the US and terrorist attacks driving down demand. Analysts have also been divided on Persimmon and Taylor Wimpey but several have been warning that they are vastly overpriced.

What do we want?

The Tories seem to be getting a little confused about what deal they should be working towards now we've voted to leave the EU. We thought we'd help ...

No free movement of people. Not even if it's limited to free movement of workers. We have 1.7m unemployed people already living in the UK, let's get them into work before we consider opening our borders to economic immigration.

Yes to free movement of goods and services. The EU only accounts for 8.5% of our trade but tariffs aren't good for business. We want free trade with the EU and that includes services as well as goods. That also applies to passporting financial services.

We want trade deals now. We gave up our seat on the World Trade Organisation for the EU. Now we're leaving we need to take it back and get some trade deals done now. We've been marginalising our international trade partners for too long.

No TTIP. This is important. TTIP is an EU-US treaty and we want no part of it. We don't want the NHS privatised, we don't want unlabelled GM foods and we don't want American companies to be given the ability to sue the government for getting in the way of their profits. We mustn't be part of the TTIP agreement.

Ditch the EU flags. We've told the government we want to leave the EU so let's start with the symbolic gesture of removing that icon of European imperialism from our public buildings.

Visa free travel. We top the world league tables for visa-free travel alongside Germany. We don't want unnecessary barriers to travel.

Get Nigel on the team. Vote Leave couldn't even manage to keep volunteers stocked up with leaflets and posters and their army of volunteers turned out to be UKIP members. The referendum was won despite Vote Leave, not because of them. There would be no referendum if it wasn't for Nigel Farage and nobody has a clearer and more comprehensive vision of how to extricate ourselves from the EU embrace the world. The government had no exit plan and nor did Vote Leave. Instead of making it up as they go along, get Nigel Farage on the team and get it right first time.

Nigel Farage's first speech in the EU Parliament since independence day

Former MEP Nikki Sinclaire fraud trial starts

Former We Demand a Referendum Now Party MEP, Nikki Sinclaire, went on trial today to answer 10 charges of fraud and misconduct brought on behalf of the EU's fraud investigation department, OLAF.

Sinclaire has been charged with misconduct in public office and transferring or converting criminal property (also known as money laundering).

Sinclaire was first elected to the EU Parliament as a UKIP MEP but was booted out of the party when she waged a divisive and destructive civil war after losing to Nigel Farage in a leadership election. She launched a sex discrimination case against the party and was awarded a default judgement after the party's lawyers missed the deadline to file their defence. UKIP was the first (and still only) party to have a transgender MEP.

The trial is expected to last three weeks.

Leaked plan for "European superstate" revealed

A German proposal to create a "European superstate" has been leaked to Polish news channel, TVP.

The proposal would see national currencies abolished, control of borders taken away from member states including the right to refuse to take in illegal immigrants from other EU member states, a common tax system and a common criminal code.

Looks like we're leaving just in time ...

Our first 24 hours of freedom

First 24 hours of freedom and it's still hard to believe that we did it.

World War 3 hasn't started, the lights are still on and people are still inexplicably able to go to their local Tesco without a visa. In fact, I it wasn't for the endless TV coverage telling us we're all stupid racists, the constant whining on social media from Remain supporters and the democracy loving left rioting in London demanding the result be overturned because they don't agree with it, you wouldn't know that anything had happened.

David Cameron has rightly fallen on his sword and we will have a new Prime Minister by October. The CBI have decided that business will adapt to life outside the EU after all. The pound has dipped a little but is around its two year midpoint, as is the FTSE. Financial, economic and social armageddon has so far failed to materialise. Who'd have thunk it?

Let's make June 23rd our independence day

Over the past few months I've walked miles, delivered thousands of leaflets to thousands of homes, stood out in the rain and the sunshine talking to passers by, handed out leaflets and discovered parts of my town I didn't even know existed. All to try and give people the facts they need to make the right decision in tomorrow's EU referendum.

Twenty years ago I was on the other side - a Labour voter who supported the EU, supported mass immigration and thought the UK should join the €uro. A healthy dose of real life helped me to see sense and I've been firmly in the leave camp for a long time.

We are the world's 5th largest economy, the EU's largest export market, the world's 5th strongest military power, one of five permanent members of the UN Security Council and the centre of world finance. We may be small in size but we are a global economy, military and trading power.

We will not just survive but thrive outside of the EU. Our future is not shackled to a rapidly declining, bankrupt economic and political bloc but looking to the rest of the world, tapping into emerging markets and regaining our place as a global trading nation.

Don't be fooled by snake oil salesmen telling you that we can reform the EU from within, it is unreformable. Don't listen to the wormtongues telling you that we're not good enough to make it on our own. This is our one and only chance to get out of the EU and regain our freedom. I urge you to take this once in a lifetime opportunity and vote Leave and make 23rd June our independence day.

Jean-Claude Juncker says the UK will get no more changes to how the EU works

The unelected president of the EU Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, has announced that there will be no further renegotiation of the UK's relationship with the EU if we vote to stay in.

The British policy makers and British voters have to know that there will not be any kind of renegotiation.

We have concluded a deal with the prime minister, he got the maximum he could receive, we gave the maximum we could give.

So there will be no kind of renegotiation, nor on the agreement we found in February, nor as far as any kind of treaty negotiations are concerned.

David Cameron is still telling the public that voting to stay in the EU will give him a mandate to keep on negotiating with the EU, making references to the things he said he was going to make them agree to but didn't. This statement from Jean-Claude Juncker nips that neatly in the bud. There will be no more change other than what has been agreed in the illegal, non-binding memorandum that was published back in February and no treaty change to make it legal and binding.

EU accelerating Turkey's EU membership application next Thursday

The EU is opening a new chapter in Turkey's membership application next week.

A UK spokesman in Brussels told Associated Free Press:

In March, all member states agreed to open Chapter 33, during the Netherlands (six-month EU) presidency. This is a technical step to implement that agreement.

David Cameron has been one of the most vocal supporters of Turkey's EU membership application and there is even a dedicated team at the British embassy in Ankara to help Turkey join the EU.

EU requires all new cars to be fitted with trackers from 2018

From 2018 all new cars sold in the EU will be required to be fitted with eCall tracking and listening devices.

The EU eCall system replaces the emergency assistance system that some car manufacturers offer which will place an emergency call to the provider if the airbags are deployed or automatically call for breakdown assistance either at the push of a button or when a serious fault is detected.

But of course the EU system goes much further. The tracker can be switched on at any time remotely, as can the in-car microphone that it will come fitted with. It will allow automatic vehicle tracking for road pricing, automated speeding fines, surveillance and eavesdropping.

Research by the Department for Transport found that the eCall system will not be beneficial for the UK and there is no clear business case for it in the UK or the EU.

In summary, while eCall might be beneficial in some countries, no clear business case has been established at a UK or a European level.

The only way to stop an EU mileage tax and protect your privacy is to vote to leave the EU tomorrow.

Two more multi-millionaires living abroad say we should stay in the EU

The mad cows at the BSE campaign have rolled out their latest intellectual heavyweights to add to their argument for staying in the EU - the Beckhams.

David and Victoria Beckham - worth £430m and living in Los Angeles - say they are "passionate" about the UK staying in the EU. But not passionate enough to live here, of course.

The Beckhams haven't always been pro-EU though. Back in the 90s when they were still actually living here and weren't quite so insulated from the insanity of life in the United States of Europe, Victoria Beckham said that "euro bureaucrats are destroying every bit of national identity and individuality".

Imagine if someone from UKIP had said this ...

I find it strange that Gisela Gschaider a 1974 immigrant from Germany is on the brexit panel telling us British what we should do .

— Lord Sugar (@Lord_Sugar) June 21, 2016

WW2 veterans sign letter asking voters "please don't give away everything we fought for"

A group of World War 2 veterans met Tory minister Priti Patel yesterday to plead with voters to vote to leave the EU.

A letter signed by the veterans says:

We never imagined 71 years ago that our country would be in this position.

60 per cent of our laws are now made by faceless Brussels bureaucrats who are unelected, and the expanding EU military tells us that this is far more than just a trade bloc.

Before you the British People cast your vote in the referendum on Thursday, we want you to know, that’s not what we fought for!

Can you imagine how upsetting it is to us veterans that today we see our own politicians, and indeed our own Prime Minister, misleading the British people to keep us in the European Union?

The EU is not democratic, and indeed the whole of Europe which we liberated together with our Allies during the Second World War, needs to know that.

We plead with you. Please don’t give away everything we fought for. Please give your vote to our great country on Thursday.

Calais in lockdown over rioting illegal immigrants

The port of Calais has been locked down for two days due to out of control illegal immigrants rioting, attacking cars and attempting to board lorries heading for the UK.

The BBC has reported the lockdown as being caused by a power cut but pictures shared on social media by people in Calais show the real reason. French police have been forced to use tear gas on hundreds of illegal immigrants targeting cars with UK number plates and chanting "Fuck the UK". They have also been jumping into the sea next to ferries and jumping into the Eurotunnel trains causing long delays on ferries and trains.

Aston Martin says Brexit will help UK exports

The Chief Executive of Aston Martin has written to staff telling them that the UK leaving the EU would make them more competitive and increase exports.

Andy Palmer sent the memo to Aston Martin's 1,800 staff telling them that how they vote is a personal decision but that he is confident that the short term slowdown in GDP growth that is to be expected from Brexit would help UK exports.

If the Remainiacs are right and the Germans will stop selling cars to their largest export market when we leave we might all end up having to drive Aston Martin's. That would be terrible ... said nobody, ever.

Jean-Claude Juncker says the EU will need its own army "to be credible"

David Cameron was told by civil servants in 2012 that he can't control immigration as an EU member

David Cameron's former Director of Strategy, Steve Hilton, has said that Cameron was told "explicitly and directly" by civil servants that it was impossible to get immigration below 100k whilst remaining a member of the EU.

Despite repeating his pie in the sky aim of getting immigration into the tens of thousands in the most recent Tory manifesto, David Cameron was told in 2012 that it was impossible to achieve. Immigration has increased by a third since David Cameron promised to half it.

Like his sham of a renegotiation, Cameron is making promises he just can't keep.

Project Fear make it personal

Project Fear are spending the last few days of campaigning making things personal, appealing to voters not to support Nigel Farage or Boris Johnson or the Tories or UKIP or "right wingers" or "millionaires". They seem to be forgetting that this is a referendum, not an election.

This referendum is to decide whether we leave the EU or not. It's not to decide who is in government, who the prime minister is, whether money gets spent on the NHS, etc. To continue implying that it is with misleading headlines in the press is dishonest and reeks of desperation.

One of the favourite tactics of the Remainiacs at the moment is to try and undermine Vote Leave's argument that the millions we spend on the EU could go into the NHS instead. The Remainiacs tell voters that you can't trust the Tories with the NHS and you can't trust UKIP with the NHS and repeat the lie that Nigel Farage wants to privatise the NHS (UKIP was the only party with a costed plan for increasing NHS spending in the last election but that's not really important) and say you can't trust these people to invest in the NHS. The referendum won't put or keep any of those people in power or whether the money goes to the NHS, it's about leaving the EU.

The Remainiacs are constantly making personal attacks on the Leave campaign, saying they have no plans for where the money we save is going to spent and can't guarantee that it'll be spent on the NHS or supporting our elderly and homeless. Of course they don't have such plans and can't make these guarantees because the referendum is to decide whether we leave the EU, not what the government does. It will be down to the British government to decide where the billions we save will be spent, not the Leave campaign.

On Thursday we will vote on the simple question of whether we want to remain in the EU or leave the EU. David Cameron will no longer be prime minister regardless of the result, George Osborne will no longer be Chancellor. The fact that they will be gone is a bonus but has no bearing on how people vote. It's not an election, we're not choosing a prime minister or who forms a government, we're just deciding on whether or not we leave the EU. It's not about whether you like UKIP or the Tories or Nigel Farage or Boris Johnson, it's about whether or not we leave the EU. It's not about whether you believe that the people behind the leave campaign would spend money on the NHS, it's about whether or not we leave the EU. Don't be distracted by irrelevant personal attacks, just stick to the facts and make the right decision for you on Thursday.

Project Fear make it personal

Project Fear are spending the last few days of campaigning making things personal, appealing to voters not to support Nigel Farage or Boris Johnson or the Tories or UKIP or "right wingers" or "millionaires". They seem to be forgetting that this is a referendum, not an election.

This referendum is to decide whether we leave the EU or not. It's not to decide who is in government, who the prime minister is, whether money gets spent on the NHS, etc. To continue implying that it is with misleading headlines in the press is dishonest and reeks of desperation.

One of the favourite tactics of the Remainiacs at the moment is to try and undermine Vote Leave's argument that the millions we spend on the EU could go into the NHS instead. The Remainiacs tell voters that you can't trust the Tories with the NHS and you can't trust UKIP with the NHS and repeat the lie that Nigel Farage wants to privatise the NHS (UKIP was the only party with a costed plan for increasing NHS spending in the last election but that's not really important) and say you can't trust these people to invest in the NHS. The referendum won't put or keep any of those people in power or whether the money goes to the NHS, it's about leaving the EU.

The Remainiacs are constantly making personal attacks on the Leave campaign, saying they have no plans for where the money we save is going to spent and can't guarantee that it'll be spent on the NHS or supporting our elderly and homeless. Of course they don't have such plans and can't make these guarantees because the referendum is to decide whether we leave the EU, not what the government does. It will be down to the British government to decide where the billions we save will be spent, not the Leave campaign.

On Thursday we will vote on the simple question of whether we want to remain in the EU or leave the EU. David Cameron will no longer be prime minister regardless of the result, George Osborne will no longer be Chancellor. The fact that they will be gone is a bonus but has no bearing on how people vote. It's not an election, we're not choosing a prime minister or who forms a government, we're just deciding on whether or not we leave the EU. It's not about whether you like UKIP or the Tories or Nigel Farage or Boris Johnson, it's about whether or not we leave the EU. It's not about whether you believe that the people behind the leave campaign would spend money on the NHS, it's about whether or not we leave the EU. Don't be distracted by irrelevant personal attacks, just stick to the facts and make the right decision for you on Thursday.

Nissan's legal action against Vote Leave is being exaggerated and misrepresented by the Remain campaign

The Remainiacs - the media included - are reporting that Nissan is suing Vote Leave for claiming that they support Brexit in referendum leaflets. This isn't true.

Vote Leave hasn't claimed that Nissan is supporting Brexit, merely that Nissan has said it will continue to invest in the UK regardless of the result of the referendum. Nissan's stated position is that they support neither campaign, would prefer us to stay in but will not be reducing their investment in the UK when we vote to leave the EU. They have said that they will have to consider future investments on a case by case basis.

Here is the part of the leaflet they have a problem with:

It doesn't say or imply that Nissan supports Brexit, merely that they are one of the many companies who have said that they will stay. Which they have.

We are a global business with a strong presence in Europe. We have a rich heritage in the UK with 30 years of manufacturing and engineering presence, and remain committed to building and engineering cars in the country.

[...]

While we remain committed to our existing investment decisions, we will not speculate on the outcome nor what would happen in either scenario.

Furthermore, Nissan is not suing Vote Leave in the commonly understood meaning of the term, they are seeking a High Court injunction to prevent Vote Leave from using their name and logo without their permission and from (in their opinion) misrepresenting Nissan's position. Whether Vote Leave has a right to use Nissan's name and logo to illustrate the fact that Nissan won't be leaving the UK if we vote to leave the EU is for a judge to decide but such use of names and logos in political leaflets during an election are generally considered fair use so it's hard to see why this wouldn't be. There are specific exclusions in UK copyright and trademark law for reporting news and who could argue that this leaflet isn't reporting the news that Nissan (amongst others) has said that they will stay in the UK when we leave the EU?

Nissan say that they have asked Vote Leave to stop using their name and logo but they have continued to do so. This is similar to NHS England who told Vote Leave to stop using the NHS logo on their leaflets. Vote Leave stopped printing leaflets with the NHS logo but the leaflets that have already been distributed are out of Vote Leave's hands. I know for a fact that they are still being delivered by people who don't work for Vote Leave months after printing of that version of the leaflet was stopped. No doubt that is the case with this leaflet that was printed some time ago.

If Nissan has asked Vote Leave to stop using their name and logo then of course Vote Leave should respect their wishes unless they believe that doing so is fair use. If companies were allowed to prevent their names and logos being used when reporting news that would allow them to suppress any bad news coverage which is clearly not in the public interest.

The case is a frivolous one in any case as they aren't seeking a hearing until Monday when the referendum will be over and the company behind Vote Leave will have already started winding itself up. The timing of the announcement - four months after Nissan say they asked Vote Leave to stop using their name and logo and three days before the referendum date - is suspicious to say the least and is most likely a Remain campaign stunt to try and discredit the Leave the campaign.

Baroness Warsi hasn't "defected", she's never been a Leave campaigner

The pro-EU press are claiming Baroness Warsi has "defected" from the Leave campaign to Remain.

Baroness Warsi has not been part of the Leave campaign, refused to get involved with the Remain campaign when invited to and has not campaigned for Leave in any capacity. She has merely made her intention to campaign to stay in the EU public.

Who supports Brexit?

Everyone must have seen the various graphics on social media from Remainiacs trying to suggest that the Leave campaign is supported only by disgruntled Tories in their 50s, racists and despots whilst the Remain campaign is supported by young and dynamic people, world leaders and the enlightened and educated intelligentsia. UKIP MEP Jonathan Arnott has put together his own list just to show how easily these things are manipulated.

Who supports Brexit? A quick list...

• Dyson
• JCB
• The State Bank of India
• Trade unions RMT, Aslef and the Bakers Union
• Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey
• Tim Martin / Wetherspoons
• John Longworth (suspended as Director General of British Chamber of Commerce for supporting Brexit)
• Senior politicians in Switzerland, Iceland, Australia, New Zealand and the USA
• Five Cabinet Ministers
• The whole of UKIP
• One of the Green Party's three members of the House of Lords
• The Democratic Unionist Party (Northern Ireland)
• Almost half of all Conservative MPs
• Some Labour MPs
• Julian Thompson (Major General, Royal Marines)
• The head of the world's largest sovereign wealth fund
• Ronald Noble (Former Head of Interpol)
• Lord Owen (Former SDP leader & Labour Foreign Minister)
• Rocco Forte (Forte Hotels)
• Mark Littlewood (Director General of the Institute for Economic Affairs)
• Cancer researcher Professor Gus Dalgleish
• Sir Richard Dearlove, former head of MI6

Who supports remaining in the EU? A quick list...

• A convicted terrorist who is now an elected politician for Sinn Fein
• Banks Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley, responsible for the financial crisis
• Disgraced and jailed former Europe Minister Denis MacShane
• Abu Hamza
• George Osborne 
• David Cameron
• Angela Merkel
• Unelected EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker
• Various organisations which have been leaned on by Downing Street and the European Commission

Pledge to Vote Leave

Vote Leave forgot to do English and Northern Irish versions of their Vote Leave pledge card when they were doing the Scottish and Welsh versions so we've fixed that for them.

Here are all five versions:

The IMF in numbers ...

Council of Europe says public officials shouldn't have to report illegal immigrants

A report for the Council of Europe has told doctors, teachers and other officials^(£) that they shouldn't report illegal immigrants to the authorities or share information they have about them with immigration officials.

The Council of Europe isn't an EU body but is closely linked with it. Membership of the Council of Europe also includes membership of the European Court of Human Rights and is mandatory for all EU members.

The report by the Council of Europe's anti-discrimination committee recommends removing the duty to report illegal immigrants to the Home of Office from public officials in case it causes them hardship.

Field Marshall Lord Guthrie switches from Remain to Leave

The former head of the army, Field Marshall Lord Guthrie, has switched from supporting the Remain campaign to the Leave campaign.

Lord Guthrie says that it was a mistake to sign a government letter supporting the EU a few weeks ago and that the risk of an EU army is too high. The British government claims that we will never join an EU army but just last month joint EU military manoeuvres were held on Salisbuy plain with the EU flag on every vehicle and uniform and German plans for an EU army headquartered in Germany were leaked last month.

Disgusting Hope not Hate uses Jo Cox murder to beg for money and attack Nigel Farage

Trade union sockpuppet, Hope not Hate, have again tried to use the tragic murder of Jo Cox as a campaigning tool in an email which must surely disgust even their most devoted supporters.

Hate not Hope's chief executive, Nick Lowles, has sent an email to supporters asking for donations to a memorial fund which he will get a share of, linking her murder to the EU referendum and attacking Nigel Farage. He also plugs an article he's written for the Newsweek website in which he again attacks UKIP and Nigel Farage.

This disgusting little man has - three times now that I know of - used the murder of Jo Cox as a campaign tool in the last 24 hours. This is at a time when both sides of the EU referendum campaign (UKIP included) have agreed to suspend campaigning as a mark of respect for the death of this lady. Not only is Nick Lowles unwilling to respect that decision, he is even seeking to profit from it by urging people to donate to the fund that he will share.

Surely even the most diehard Hate not Hope supporter can't continue to support this appalling man.

Shameless Remain campaigners use Jo Cox murder as a campaign tool

Whilst both the Leave and Remain campaigns officially suspended campaigning yesterday following the murder of Labour MP, Jo Cox, some remain campaigners have been using her death as a campaign tool.

Remain campaigners have been trying (unsuccessfully) to get the #remainforjo hashtag trending on Twitter.

One Remain campaigner near Upholland posted a picture of a Leave sign that he had demolished saying that he was so upset at Jo Cox's death that he "couldn't walk on by" without causing some criminal damage.

I couldn't walk on by, crying tears of rage. #ripJoCox pic.twitter.com/gmXTBZ1jpj

— Pete Clarke (@creativeblock_) June 16, 2016

The EU Commissioner for Immigration, Dimitris Avramopoulos, claimed that Jo Cox was murdered for her dedication to the EU then deleted the tweet.

The tweet claiming that the alleged attacker shouted "Britain First" as he attacked the MP was deleted when witnesses denied that it had happened.

Eyewitness tells reporters he didn't hear anyone shout "Britain first", saying: "Never heard that". pic.twitter.com/DWhzqe7ayi

— Ben (@Jamin2g) June 16, 2016

Hate not Hope and the Daily Star have concentrated on the false claim that the alleged attacker shouted "Britain First" as he attacked the MP and are trying to link the attack to the Leave campaign.

Jo Cox was murdered by a mentally disturbed man who, it is believed, was on medication for a mental illness and had been having psychotherapy. She lost her life intervening in an argument in the street between her alleged murderer and another man. She wasn't murdered by a "far right activist" or a "Brexit gunman". The Remain campaigners trying to make political capital out of the tragic death of a wife and mother of two young children should be ashamed and the Daily Star will find this their Sun Hillsborough moment.

Batley & Spen MP, Jo Cox, murdered

Labour MP for Batley & Spen, Jo Cox, has died after being stabbed and shot in her constituency.

There are reports of the man shouting "Britain First" as he attacked her although this has yet to be confirmed.

The suspected attacker has been named as Thomas Mair by locals and police forensics are searching his house and garage.

Our thoughts are with her family, friends and colleagues.

Bob Geldof abuses fishermen fighting to keep their livelihoods

Foul-mouthed tax-dodging Irish multi-millionaire, Bob Geldof, has provoked a public backlash after abusing fishermen protesting against the EU that has devastated their communities and destroyed their businesses.

Geldof jumped onto a pleasure cruiser hired by the remain campaign to swear at and abuse the fishermen, some of whom had spent days sailing to London. While he was abusing the fishermen, Remainiacs in inflatable motorised dinghies sailed in front of fishing boats causing such a danger that the a police patrol boat had to chase them off.

Unlike Geldof, our fishermen don't have a choice of mansions at home and abroad and millions of pounds in the bank to pay their bills so they have to work for a living and all the while the EU is undermining their entire industry. Geldof was such an obnoxious, disrespectful gobshite that the Labour Remain campaigners on the boat got off in disgust.

On a boat with Bob Geldof and its awful. I may vote remain, but don't support jeering at fisherman worried about their livelihoods.

— Bethany Pickering (@blp_1995) June 15, 2016

There is no investor panic over Brexit

The Remainiacs are trying to spin a slight devaluation in the value of the pound as investors losing confidence in a post-Brexit UK but as usual they're wrong.

Currency speculation is a high volume, short term investment. Traders are expecting a short term devaluation of the pound in the immediate aftermath of the referendum and they will welcome it. Trading currency is like trading anything else - buy your product as cheap as you can and sell it for as much as you can. They are dumping their sterling investments to help drive devaluation and once the referendum is over and the pound reaches the price they want they will buy it back at rock bottom prices and sell it on when it bounces back. It's not investor panic, it's how the markets work.

If you're looking for an indication of investor confidence then you need to look at the bond market. Bonds are basically loans given by investors to companies, governments and other organisations. The yield on a bond is the amount of profit the investor can expect to make when the bond matures and the issuer buys it back off you. The higher the yield demanded, the less confidence investors have in the ability of the issuer to pay. It's exactly the same principal as taking out a bank loan - the higher the risk of you not paying back your loan, the higher rate of interest the lender applies to the loan to cover their expected losses. If Greece was looking for a high street loan they'd be turning to the likes of Wonga, not Barclays.

A 10 year Greek government bond is attracting an 8.2% yield at the moment. Compare that to 1.6% for the US and 3% for China and you can see that investors have a lot less confidence in Greece's ability to buy back the bonds that they're issuing at the agreed price. 10 year UK government bonds are trading with a 1.146% yield today. That means investors have more confidence in the ability of the UK to buy back that bond in 10 years' time than they do in the United States to buy back theirs. UK government 5 year bonds are attracting a yield of 0.726% today compared to 1.38% for US government 5 year bonds. UK government 2 year bonds are attracting a yield of 0.38% compared to 0.88% for US government 2 year bonds. Investors aren't panicking about Brexit, they are expecting stability even in the short term.

George Osborne threatens to put up taxes and cut the NHS as punishment for leaving the EU

George Osborne has threatened a punishment budget for leaving the EU if he is still Chancellor after next week.

He has threatened to:

• Put up income tax by 2p (or 3p on the higher rate)
• Put up inheritance tax by 5%
• Put up fuel duty by 5p
• Put up alcohol duty by 5p
• Cut £2.5bn from the NHS budget
• Cut £1.2bn from the defence budget
• Cut £1.15bn from the education budget
• Cut £2bn from the pensions budget
• Cut the transport budget by 5%
• Cut the police budget by 5%

The foreign aid budget would be protected under his punishment budget.

George Osborne might have survived the referendum if he kept his head down but this will be the final nail in the coffin of his inglorious career.

New chapter in Turkey's EU membership application will be opened the day after the referendum

The British government have dropped opposition to opening a new chapter in Turkey's EU membership application the day after our referendum.

Fifteen of the 35 accession chapters have already been opened and one has been closed. Accelerating Turkey's membership application, a £2.2bn bung and granting Turkey visa-free travel were conditions of the EU's deal with Turkey that should have resulted in a crackdown on illegal immigration into Europe from Turkey. They have missed all the targets that were agreed but in the face of threats to stop what controls they have put in place the EU has rolled over and agreed to comply with the Turkish blackmail.

The UK's opposition to opening this new chapter in Turkey's EU membership application lasted for mere hours before they caved in.

David Cameron has been one of the most vocal supporters of Turkey's membership of the EU and leaked papers have shown that despite his recent volte face in public on the issue there is a team of British diplomats in Ankara dedicated to helping Turkey meet the requirements for EU membership.

Once voting is over next week, 75m Turks will be given visa-free travel in the EU despite an EU Commission report admitting that it will result in Turkish-based terrorists and organised crime gangs expanding into Europe.

ISIS terrorist in Paris leaves policeman and his wife dead

An ISIS terrorist has been killed after stabbing a police officer and his wife to death and taking their young child hostage.

The attack comes a day after an ISIS terrorist gunned down over a hundred guests in an Orlando nightclub, killing 49 and injuring 53.

The deputy chief of judicial police at Les Mureaux in the Paris suburbs was stabbed nine times in the abdomen. His wife was also killed by the terrorist who then took their 3 year old son hostage in their home. French RAID officers (roughly equivalent to special branch or SO15 in the UK) stormed the house, killed the terrorist and rescued the child.

The Sun comes out for Brexit

If you listen very carefully you can hear the fat lady warming up ready to burst into song ...

There hasn't been a single year of peace in Europe since the United States of Europe was born in 1952

The Remainiacs like to repeat the myth that the EU has brought peace to Europe. Some time ago we produced a list of armed conflicts in Europe that had occurred during the 50 years of peace that the EU was given a Nobel Peace Prize for.

Now the EU referendum is almost upon us and the Remainiacs are making the same false claims it's time for an updated list and this time we've included a handy timeline as a visual reminder that there hasn't been a single year since the European Steel and Coal Community - the organisation that would evolve over time to become the EU - was created in 1952 without violent conflict in Europe.

There's a lot of peaceful revolution, terrorism, invasions, civil war and genocide to keep track of so it's rather large.

ISIS extremists murders 49 in Orlando nightclub

An American muslim has gone on the rampage in a gay nightclub in Orlando, killing 49 and injuring 53.

Omar Mateen phoned police before he went on the rampage with an assault rifle and pledged allegiance to ISIS leader, Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi. Despite public claims by Barack Obama that there is no evidence of Mateen having links to any groups, ISIS have claimed responsibility for the attack and details have been released to the press of FBI investigations into him.

A video of Mateen's father is doing the rounds dressed in military fatigues declaring his candidacy for president of Afghanistan. He has posted a statement on Facebook saying that his son shouldn't have punished the gay community because "God himself will punish those involved in homosexuality".

Serious questions will no doubt be asked of the FBI who have had plenty of reason to have Mateen on their radar but concluded that he was no risk.

Syrians brought to the UK under refugee relocation programme appear in court on child sex offence charges

Four Syrians who were relocated to the UK under David Cameron's refugee relocation programme have been charged with gang raping a 14 year old in Newcastle.

The four men were brought to the UK a few months ago after being plucked out of refugee camps in Syria. They are supposed to have been vetted to make sure they aren't terrorists or criminals.

Despite the alleged attack happening on May 10th there has been a conspiracy of silence in the media and the police who have reported any number of minor crimes but not this one. You would have thought they'd have learnt from Rotherham but it would appear not.

Conservative Party donor cancels membership over Cameron's threat to pensions

One of the Conservative Party's big donors has withdrawn his support for the Conservatives after David Cameron threatened to abolish the legal mechanism that increase the state pension by 2.5%, inflation or average earnings, whichever is higher.

The Conservative manifesto pledged to maintain the so-called "triple lock" on pensions until at least 2020 but last week David Cameron warned that he would abolish it when we leave the EU.

Venture capitalist, Edi Truell, has donated £270k to the Conservatives since 2010 but has cancelled his membership after David Cameron's pension threat. He has said that he will not support the Conservatives again until David Cameron is gone.

BT deleted results of poll showing 80% of their 20,000 users want to leave the EU

A couple of days ago an article appeared on the BT.com website reporting that 4 out of 5 of their 20,000 users intended to vote to leave the EU.

Yesterday the link disappeared from the website if you visited from the UK but remained on the site if you visited from the EU. Even if you clicked on the link in the EU, the article had been removed.

InvestmentWatch suggests that BT were leaned on by the British government or the EU to remove the article but the order is more likely to have come from closer to home: the Chief Executive of BT is a signatory on one of the Remain campaign's letters from big business telling us to vote to stay in the EU.

David Cameron rewards donors and Remain campaigners with knighthoods

David Cameron has used the honours system to reward Tory donors and Remain campaigners in a blatant abuse of the system.

Amongst the Remainiacs and Tory donors being rewarded with knighthoods and titles are:

• Deputy leader of the britain Stronger in Europe campaign, Richard Reed
• Founder of Ocado and Remain campaign donor, Tim Steiner
• Actor and Remain campaigner, Brian Blessed
• Treasury propaganda agent, John Kingman
• Zoopla co-founder, Remain campaigner and Tory donor, Alex Chesterman
• Head of Tory fundraising, Mike Chattey
• David Cameron's Deputy Private Secretary, Edward Whitting

Head over to the Sun for a longer list of propagandists and Tory donors.

Sir James Dyson backs Leave

Sir James Dyson is backing the campaign to leave the EU and said that the idea that the EU will stop trading with us when we leave is "cobblers".

The billionaire inventor says that the EU sells us twice as much as we sell them with the deficit running at about £100bn a year and if the EU decided to impose 10% tariffs on UK exports we could do the same, raising an additional £10bn of revenue for the Treasury.

Dyson is critical of the British government's racist immigration policy which discriminates against non-EU workers. Because it's impossible to control the number of people who come here from the EU, the British government's only option other than leaving the EU is to put harsh restrictions on non-EU immigration in an attempt to drive down numbers. Dyson says this means it takes four and a half months to bring in a skilled foreign worker from outside the EU but you have no problem hiring a low paid barista from the EU.

The mad cows at the BSE campaign said "James Dyson wanted the UK to join the Euro. He was wrong then and he is wrong now". So by extension that must mean the Remain campaign's big backers who all campaigned to join the €uro are also wrong.

New opinion poll puts Leave 10% ahead of Project Fear

An opinion poll by ORB for the Independent released this evening puts Leave 10% ahead of Remain with undecided excluded.

This is only one poll so don't go down to the bookies and put your life savings on Brexit just yet but a 10% lead in the polls the day before the referendum would wipe out the polling day swing and put Leave on the front foot.

The Scottish independence referendum is the closest we have to a modern-day precedent for the EU referendum and that saw a massive 11% swing from Yes to No in the final 24 hours. Polling in the days before the Scottish referendum put Yes about 2% ahead of No but when it came to the vote No won by 9%. That was a big swing but there was more at stake in the Scottish referendum than there is in the EU referendum.

A change of citizenship, a national debt, the end of the Barnett Formula subsidy and declining oil prices blowing a hole in the Scottish government's economic plans made Scottish independence a risky economic proposition as well as a big cultural change. We're not culturally European, we're not invested in the EU superstate and the economic case for staying in just isn't credible. Leaving the EU has a lower risk profile and that will probably translate into a smaller swing. My feeling is that the voting day swing will be about 8% so a 10% lead in the polls should deliver a 2% majority for Leave but as I said, this is just one poll so keep the champagne on ice for now.

Vote Leave banner the size of a small house attached to Cavendish House in Dudley

This picture of Cavendish House in Dudley has been posted on Facebook by the Spotted : Dudley page. The block of flats is a local eyesore that's supposed to have been scheduled for demolition for a couple of years now. Looks great today!