The great British Brexit robbery

This infographic is worth taking a minute to study.

Letter of the week on Brexit

Lionel Barber on Twitter. “Letter of the week on Brexit: a City’s veteran’s explosive verdict. Worth reading every word.”

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Hard core Brexiteers are like addicts hooked on a “narrow shortsighted nationalism” who would have this country “return to an Edwardian age”.

They’re like Robert Downey Jr. in 1999 talking about his addiction. “It’s like I have a loaded gun in my mouth and my finger’s on the trigger and I like the taste of the gunmetal.”

Only the gun isn’t in their mouth it’s in ours.

Terry Gross talks to Carole Cadwalladr about links between Brexit and the Trump campaign

A must listen interview. Terry Gross talks to Carole Cadwalladr about links between Brexit and the Trump campaign, giving a comprehensive outline of the still unravelling story, detailing how data and the dark money are dissolving democracy around the world.

NPR

Vote Leave fined and reported to police by Electoral Commission

So what happens now?

Is the Cambridge Analytica scandal cause enough to demand a second referendum?

Carole Chadwalladr’s piece in The Guardian outlines “what increasingly looks like a cover-up”.

It sounds to me like laws have been broken, that the outcome of the referendum was manipulated, allowing leave to win.

I’d argue for a pause to Brexit proceedings until the truth can be clarified. It also raises the question, is this scandal cause enough to demand a second referendum?