US Billionaire Fuckery In Other Nations? Did Robert Mercer Help To Fund Brexit Campaigns?

[TheBlackAdder]

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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/14/robert-mercer-cambridge-analytica-leave-eu-referendum-brexit-campaigns?CMP=share_btn_tw



Just an excerpt:

British electoral law is founded on the principle of a level playing field and controlling campaign spending is the key plank of that. The law states that different campaigns must not work together unless they declare their expenditure jointly. This controls spending limits so that no side can effectively “buy” an election.


But this signed legal document – a document that was never meant to be made public and was leaked by a concerned source – connects both Vote Leave and Leave.EU’s data firms directly to Robert Mercer, the American billionaire who bankrolled Donald Trump.


This is a deeply complex story. It has taken three months of investigation to unravel the web of connections – both human and contractual. But these connections and threads linking two separate foreign data analytics companies – one based in Canada and one based in London – raise profound and troubling questions about our democratic process. Because these intricate links lead, in not many steps, to Robert Mercer.

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[Vogon_Glory]

1. I suppose it's too much to ask for some wrathful future British government to indict and prosecute h

After seein the right-wing malefactors of this century escape any legal accountability, I expect Merced to get through any embarrassing revelations unscathed.

[TheBlackAdder]

2. Yep. I don't see the anger in the UK to warrant any action. At least, not yet.

[Initech]

3. This is why Citizens United and similar laws allowing unlimited money are dangerous.