Populism happily sacrifices a County Durham lamb


Believing in our justice system to see the good and innocent in others is what Darren Grimes counted on for the past three years. The vehement towards the young man was decidedly spiteful and misplaced, no-one deserves the avalanche of abuse Grimes was forced to endure.

Thankfully, Judge Marc Dight did put this into consideration while concluding the case. What was striking was the Electoral Commission’s case against BeLeave and Grimes personally; it focused on prejudices, and displaced bureaucracy. Altogether, Judge Dight correctly saw the wood beside the forest of rhetoric and made clear that BeLeave was simply a campaign group without a formal constitution, and was brought together by like-minded individuals, who’d agreed to believe in something political.

To make Grimes an example at this point of political chaos would surely be sending out the wrong message to a nation’s core principle - a freedom to protest: what’s germane is Grimes attempted to meet his obligations to the commission which were instructed; by doing so to the best of his capability this eliminated any reason Grimes was being insincere. If we truly judged humanity this harshly you’ll be ridding humanity of its natural characteristics and where would this leave humanity? Under a rock, afraid to achieve anything possibly; indeed, the fundamental reason for bureaucracy wasn’t supposed to trick individuals into a formulated entrapment, it’s purely devised to facilitate records not to galvanise emotive (s).

There’s a sense that this young man was sacrificed a numerous of ways (1) bi-directional media abuse. (2) The Electoral Commission: (their red tape fiascos border on fixated prejudices which encroached onto dehumanised practice) – (3) Vote Leave:  (the role which Vote Leave didn’t play, was to a young man who had no previous experience of jurisprudence).  Indirectly, this was tougher to stomach than the other two opposition ‘attack groups.’  Of course, whistle-blowers have fragmented from the core Vote Leave team of 2016; alas, you’d have thought they’ll want to bask in the winning team mentality and stick together. Especially as the Gisela Stuart, (Chairman) Matthew Elliott (CEO) and Dominic Cumming’s (Campaign Director) philosophy brazenly announce all ‘Leave’ voices speak as one.



This formulated buzz phrase is a fair reflection of what ‘Leave’ was all about during the EUREF2016 campaign; herewith after 23/06/16, the tight-knit band of brothers and sisters wasn’t quite as apparent. I suspect Grimes bought into the ‘unity philosophy’ in its entirety and believed in an element of the perceived safeguard he’d get during the two year negotiation process, once Article 50 was triggered. Unfair to categorically state Grimes was ingenuous of the premise, he’d zero reason to question the ‘Vote Leave Team.’  Even the 680K donation from Vote Leave to BeLeave wasn’t necessarily to the detriment of Grimes purely as the common understanding that BeLeave was under the umbrella of Leave doctrine – and the Vote Leave chieftains knew the rules and were trusted to adhere to them, meaning that to the ilk of Grimes, Cummings & Co wasn’t exactly breaching rules and regulations.

Overall, it beggars belief that the Electoral Commission spent 500K to nail one individual -- and charge him an excessive fine of 20k, was incoherent, and I wonder if the Electoral Commission was trying to disengage Darren Grimes from Leave’s cultist behaviour (s) by using him as an example. Therefore, by being highly prejudicial on purpose, they expected to create another whistle-blower. Naturally, they misjudged his tenacity towards a political cause, but you get the gist why the Electoral Commission would consider this unorthodox pathway.

Grimes initially pounded the streets as a Lib Dem, Pro-EU activist only a year earlier, that’s a tremendous transmogrification of any standard. What happened? Grimes said in 2015; “We’ve a fight on our hands and it’s the perfect opportunity to get our internationalist, Pro-EU liberal voice heard and out there. I’m full of confidence that everyone in this group will canvass the hell out of everyone they can to stay in Europe.” The area of contention I have with the Electoral Commission is they assumed he was coerced by the LGBT community, but their bureaucratic crusade effectually impeached his human rights - ironically, via the European Court Human Rights. He has a counter-sue case, if he wants to follow through with it.

Sadly, on a human level, I knew that Grimes felt safe in the arms of Vote Leave. He was away from his comforts of County Durham and he felt he belonged with his new family of Brexiters, for any young individual this was a superb opportunity most students would take up. Activism is activism and there are always winners and losers. Grimes felt like a winner and this usually includes rewards / performance incentives-- on the emotional front, the reward hasn’t been prevalent, crowdfunding to cover your legal bill is quite a feat - so it’ll be worth suing Vote Leave for philosophy negligence of the factor the case has taken a huge toll on all concerned with Darren Grimes and in truth it was all meaningless.

The report of Jonathan Isaby from BrexitCentral astounded me, for he gauged the case against Grimes result would’ve gone the same way for Vote Leave if they hadn’t paid the Commission’s fine. This wouldn’t have been happened, as the status was totally different – Vote Leave was fully aware of the campaign rule impeachment, why Christopher Wylie from ‘Alternative IQ’ was enlisted into the funding trail, because it wasn’t part of the moniker syndicate of ‘Leave.’ Under electoral law campaign groups are able to transfer funds, alas have no input to how monies are directed. So, any advice Grimes may’ve given Wylie and ‘AIQ’ was merely speculative and even if monies got transferred back, to BeLeave there’s no reason why BeLeave would’ve known it originally came from Vote Leave - hence, Isaby totally misrepresented Vote Leave’s position. The lack of detail emerging with BrexitCentral suggests there’s a Cultist pattern which stinks of rampant Vote Leave populism, the sort of irrational potency you get from Widdecombe’s Science or in one of Bannon’s Judeo-Christian Academies in Europe.

Our public domain is a crowded place when it comes to data storage but the patterns of abundant accounts / businesses are startlingly similar, there’s a plethora of bureaucratic repetitions affiliated with Vote Leave and their contacts. Notably, what Brexit whistle-blowers found decidedly concerning was Vote Leave’s insistence of setting up a separate bank account possibly for money laundering purposes. Every decision was from a strategist who walks in the corridor of power, knowing full well that he had the gift of hindsight to thwart a possible prison sentence. What a dramatic end to this sorry political saga if the perpetrators got their just rewards; albeit, this look unlikely; however, if Darren Grimes really saw the light he’ll start legal proceedings, instead of being cast adrift by the Leave syndicates and sacrificed - fortunately Judge Dight did see the light.

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