Remember Leave.EU? Not to be confused with Vote Leave, which is the pro-Brexit group led by one of the former mayors with Hitler tourettes, or with Grassroots Out, which was the group with the neon green ties, or with UKIP. Even though Grassroots Out, UKIP and Leave.EU are all funded by Arron Banks, a multi-millionaire with interests in the British Virgin Islands who lives in a mansion once owned by the prog rock musician Mike Oldfield. Glad that’s all clear.
Anyway, Leave.EU still exists, even after Vote Leave was designated as the official Leave campaign – spending more of its time attacking the conduct, tactics and key figures of Vote Leave rather than, you know, that big EU thing they’re supposed to hate so much.
One of their main sources of frustration is Vote Leave’s refusal to have UKIP leader Nigel Farage as its representative in any of the EU debates. So, obviously, rather than pressing their case through normal channels, Leave.EU did what any respectable organisation would, and emailed the private phone numbers of senior figures at the BBC and Vote Leave out to its entire mailing list.
Leave.EU just posted the private numbers of Douglas Carswell/Vote Leave officials and urged supporters to call them. pic.twitter.com/aTO2oaXMsh
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Which, needless to say, upset those people. Douglas Carswell sent a message asking for his number to be removed, so of course Leave.EU published that too.
Note from @DouglasCarswell. Only asked public to tell him we want Nigel at BBC debate. So much for Direct Democracy! pic.twitter.com/WDzGvU3k8S
— LEAVE.EU (@LeaveEUOfficial) May 23, 2016
No wonder the Brexiters are so opposed to international cooperation when they can’t even keep the peace on their own side.