One of the biggest financial backers of the official Brexit campaign is a former member of the far-right British National party, it emerged yesterday.
Gladys Bramall, 88, from Sutton Coldfield in Birmingham, has given £600,000 to Vote Leave, making her its third-biggest individual donor.
Mrs Bramall’s name and address were included on a leaked BNP membership list from 2006.
Mrs Bramall confirmed that she had been a BNP member, but had been registered by her husband, Leonard. She gave £100,000 to Vote Leave on April 29 and £500,000 on May 9.
Mrs Bramall has a majority shareholding in Construct-Equip, a plant hire business. She and her husband, who died in 2014, were also the sole directors of Bramac, a business consultancy that was dissolved in February with assets of almost £5 million.
Under questioning from Frances O’Grady, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, at the BBC’s referendum debate last night, none of the three panellists from the Leave campaign would be drawn on whether Mrs Bramall’s donation should be returned. Andrea Leadsom said the suggestion was “unworthy of this debate”.
Michael Gove said that Vote Leave was investigating the donation.
Vote Leave did not respond to a request for comment.
My prediction is that Remain will win with 52% of the vote. Turnout will be 70%.
Professor Otmar Issing - a former chief economist at the European Central Bank and architect of the euro - "EU elites were afraid to confront voters, delaying their plans for integration until after 2017, the year France and Germany hold national elections. The thrust of all these ideas is going through a back door towards fiscal union, voters in the end will understand what is going on. They will know they are being exploited."
What Brexit failed to mention (Times):
What Brexit failed to mention (Times):
Who's gives a monkeys about this? Unsavoury characters on both ends.
My official prediction (because I know you've all been waiting):
58% Leave
My reasoning:
- Remain getting absolutely slated all over social media, which is primarily the domain of the demographic most expect to vote Remain.
- Attempts to demonise Leave voters as racist/xebophobic etc makes me believe they’re less likely to be honest about their voting intentions, so if the polls say 50% I suspect it’ll actually be a few more.
- Polls in recent years have suggested 70%+ of the UK wants immigration reduced.
If I’m wrong I shall eat my hat (which is made of cheesecake).
Public has a right to know who pays but if it touches a nerve then so what.![]()
i live in Northern sweden so im very far removed from any urban nonsense like in Malmo or the crappy parts of Stockholm.
The town i live in does have a crazy amount of "refugees/asylum seekers 5% in 2014 more likely 10% now tbh."
Ja, jag kan prata svenska, men jag är skit dåligt eftersom jag prata med et London dialekt. Jag förstår mycket mer än jag kan saga.
I went to adult language school with a ton of them mostly iraqi and syrian-kurd muslims but a lot of African christians too. All i can say is religion messes you up, doesn't matter what you follow it makes you a blinkered, uneducated idiot.
My town is nice. THe local government tax a lot and spend a lot on the local environment so it feels clean and well maintained always. It kinda reminds me of the UK in 1980s... They still have libraries and community buildings here. THey closed all my local london ones decades ago....
its nice here but i think it will go to rat **** in the next 20 years for whatever reasons.
I was watching this BBC video online about the EU Referendum.
On that video so many people said "if we vote to remain I'm emigrating."
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Brilliant!
i live in Northern sweden so im very far removed from any urban nonsense like in Malmo or the crappy parts of Stockholm.
The town i live in does have a crazy amount of "refugees/asylum seekers 5% in 2014 more likely 10% now tbh."
Ja, jag kan prata svenska, men jag är skit dåligt eftersom jag prata med et London dialekt. Jag förstår mycket mer än jag kan saga.
I went to adult language school with a ton of them mostly iraqi and syrian-kurd muslims but a lot of African christians too. All i can say is religion messes you up, doesn't matter what you follow it makes you a blinkered, uneducated idiot.
My town is nice. THe local government tax a lot and spend a lot on the local environment so it feels clean and well maintained always. It kinda reminds me of the UK in 1980s... They still have libraries and community buildings here. THey closed all my local london ones decades ago....
its nice here but i think it will go to rat **** in the next 20 years for whatever reasons.
I was watching this BBC video online about the EU Referendum.
On that video so many people said "if we vote to remain I'm emigrating."
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Brilliant!
Seen some of those in Ripon tooI see that the Welsh have had enough of this endless campaigning...
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10,000 EU employees on more money than our PM and people still want to vote Remain? Why don't you just take the ferry to Brussells and go bend over for them as well
That does amuse me as a Brexiteer. Speaking for myself I have no objection to immigrants, my wife is one. I do however object to very high levels of immigration ib a short space of time that we have no control over.
Change is good but it has to be at a pace that can be managed and gives populations time to adjust. Politicians of all people should understand this, sadly ideology and ego often gets in the way.