The UK's Brexit Referendum.

[BIAD]

The MSM continue their 'for-and-against' rhetoric regarding Great Britain leaving the European Union and now it's
been discovered that...(Don't say bribes, BIAD) that 'donations' were paid to certain groups in order for a Leave
-voting agenda.

The article below later explains that no laws were broken and the Constitutional Research Council (CRC) -a group
of anti-remain politicians and wealthy business people, were fined for not reporting a donation, although the donation
was deemed permissible.

CRC favours Unionism, the political ideology favouring the continued unity of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern
Ireland as one sovereign state. In other words, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. In the land
where Gordi resides, this is an age-old bone of contention and part of the system regarding the past troubles in
Northern Ireland.

There's always this continuing demand to be on one side or the other and inferred accusations via certain wordage
will continue until we arrive at an agreed end of the 'Brexit' situation. If it's illegal to donate for votes, then it's illegal.
But the MSM should say so and not imply.

Brexit donation: DUP received further £13,000 from CRC.

'The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) accepted a further £13,000 donation from a pro-Brexit group in the months
after the EU referendum, documents have confirmed.

The Constitutional Research Council (CRC) had previously donated £435,000 to the DUP during the 2016 Brexit
referendum campaign. The bulk of the £435,000 was spent by the DUP on pro-Brexit advertising.
The DUP said it has complied with electoral law at all times.

The party did not comment on how it spent the £13,000 donation but said it used donations to "further the cause of
unionism at home and abroad". The details on the latest CRC donation are contained in internal Electoral Commission
documents published by the campaign group the Good Law Project.

The CRC is thought to be a group of pro-union business people chaired by Richard Cook.
Mr Cook is a former vice chairman of the Scottish Conservatives.
BBC News NI contacted Mr Cook about the £13,000 donation to the DUP but he was unavailable for comment.


The DUP took out a wraparound ad in the Metro urging voters to "Take Back Control".
(Right) Richard Cook is a former vice-chairman of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party.

The names of those who donated the money to the CRC have never been released.
Donor laws in Northern Ireland state that the Electoral Commission cannot publish any donations made before July 2017.

'Correctly declared'
In February 2017, the DUP confirmed it received a £435,000 donation from the CRC as part of the EU referendum
campaign. Most of that money was spent on the Brexit campaign, including a four-page "Vote To Leave" advertisement in
the Metro newspaper, which is available in London and other cities but not in Northern Ireland.

The DUP reported the donation to the Electoral Commission but BBC News NI previously revealed that the CRC was fined
£6,000 by the commission for failing to report the donation.
Following an investigation, the CRC declared the donation and the commission found the source of the money was permissible.

However, the latest batch of Electoral Commission documents confirm that the CRC gave the DUP a further £13,000 after the
EU referendum. A donation of £6,000 was made in October 2016 and a further £7,000 was given in March 2017.
Both donations were correctly declared to the Electoral Commission.

'Extraordinary'
The details of the £13,000 donation were contained in an assessment by the Electoral Commission of allegations made in a
BBC NI Spotlight programme. It examined whether there was a common plan between the DUP and the referendum campaign
group Vote Leave.

Last August, the Electoral Commission announced it would not investigate the allegations contained in the programme, having
made what it said was "a thorough review of the programme". Speaking to the Open Democracy website, some MPs have called
on the Electoral Commission to re-open its investigation into the connections between Vote Leave and the DUP.

Jolyon Maugham, from the Good Law Project, said it was "inevitable" that the Electoral Commission would need to re-examine
donations to the DUP during the referendum campaign. He added: "It's extraordinary that -almost three years on -real questions
remain."

A DUP spokesperson said donations received by the party were reported to the Electoral Commission "in accordance with our
legal obligations"...'

BBC:

By the way, if we wish to stay in the world of selective media commentary, Nelson McCausland wrote in Belfast Telegraph back in
2017:

'...Edward Heath, the Conservative prime minister, had signed the Treaty of Rome in January 1973 and, at that point,
the UK joined what was then usually called the Common Market. That was done on the basis of a commitment that we
would retain our national sovereignty.

Indeed, in June 1971, a White Paper had been sent to every home in the UK, promising that, “there is no question of Britain
losing essential sovereignty”.

Then, in a television broadcast in January 1973 to mark the signing of the Treaty of Rome, Edward Heath went even further.
He said: “There are some in this country who fear that, in going into Europe, we shall in some way sacrifice independence
and sovereignty. These fears, I need hardly say, are completely unjustified.”...'

'...The loss of national sovereignty was confirmed by Judge Bruce Morgan on April 9, 2001.
He said that, when the UK joined the Common Market in the 1970s, parliament and the British people “quite voluntarily surrendered
the once seemingly immortal concept of the sovereignty of parliament and legislative freedom”.

Two years later, there was a referendum, on June 5, 1975, and the majority of voters supported the UK’s continued membership of
the Common Market, now the European Union...'

Belfast Telegraph:

And there were no demands for a second referendum! I can only hope that somewhere out there, buried deep in the soil of the
UK, honesty is waiting to be found.