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The Brexit Club: the Inside Story of the Leave Campaigns Shock Victory Pdf FREE THE BREXIT CLUB: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE LEAVE CAMPAIGNS SHOCK VICTORY PDF Owen Bennett | 352 pages | 12 Oct 2016 | Biteback Publishing | 9781785900983 | English | London, United Kingdom Dr Paul Stocker Sean Mahoney on the Farage appeal, the Brexit chaos and the cirumlocution offices of the modern age. Future generations will have the benefit of knowing how Brexit pans out. A Brexit Government, led by a Prime Minister who campaigned for Remain, seems intent on throwing more confusion into the political landscape. None of this chaos The Brexit Club: The Inside Story of the Leave Campaigns Shock Victory have been a surprise. The first wave of instant histories has already been published. Often, they are essentially a self-justification narrative and with this motivation, both the winners and losers have been quick to press. Owen Bennet has followed Nigel Farage over the last few years and offers what is at times, even if not intentionally, a sympathetic Farage—centric view of the Brexit campaign. In fact, they never had a cohesive plan for the pre-referendum stage. The The Brexit Club: The Inside Story of the Leave Campaigns Shock Victory list is long and seems to get out of hand quickly. No two characters really like each other. Nigel is not liked by a range of characters who would rather he stayed away from the Campaign. Not many people like them. Aaron Banks dislikes them. He does though have the necessary qualities to bankroll the GO campaign. George Galloway appears and disappears all in one day, but no one except Nigel really cares for him. Boris and Michael decide to join in and like each other intently, until they fall out. Vote Leave, who were ultimately successful in gaining the designation try to The Brexit Club: The Inside Story of the Leave Campaigns Shock Victory a campaign without Farage, Banks and the collective entourage. Vote Leave became the official campaign and Farage was excommunicated. Banks considers suing to get the decision overturned, but seems to oversleep his own self imposed deadline. At this point someone should have noted that the ability for these groups to work together was not a convincing argument for any kind of unifying. However, it remained as the headline claim, money available for all our future needs, until the 24 th of June when it quickly vanished. Cummings and Elliot then express horror as the campaigns turn to Immigration. No one, it seems, knew that Farage was going to release a poster showing migrants crossing a land border, swamping Britain. The campaign itself comes across as nothing more than light entertainment. There are intense battles to hold a music concert. Boris Johnson gets into more photo opportunities than a man should allow himself even if it means auctioning a cow. Some of the large scale arena debates make you wonder what we did for entertainment before Brexit? It also explains why Michael Gove went to bed at Imagine what might have happened if they had worked together? Of course we know the result — but we still await the verdict. As yet, 8 year olds are still not allowed to blow up balloons, teabags remain used only once, we still bury people in standardised euro-coffins, Mumbai mix is on the shelves, and bananas are straight. Brexit still means Brexit…for now. At the same time, somewhere in Britain there is a woman with a tattoo of Nigel Farage. Sean Mahoney lives in New Zealand. He has attempted a range of projects and careers, all with limited success. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. 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Brexit was masterminded by a strategist unknown outside Westminster, a geeky, balding northerner called Dominic Cummings. Played by Benedict Cumberbatch, Cummings was responsible for the slogan Take Back Control, credited with swaying many undecided voters. The two-hour programme reveals the in-fighting, attempted coups and planning that went into both campaigns. It begins with Vote Leave setting up base in a scruffy office with a total lack of resources compared to the Remainers. They were in the minority until two things happened: Cummings came up with Take Back Control, then he contacted AggregateIQ, a Canadian technology firm that used special software to find three million disenfranchised voters, then The Brexit Club: The Inside Story of the Leave Campaigns Shock Victory them with social media adverts. When it came to portraying Cummings, Benedict shaved his head, wore a wig, put contact lenses in and learnt a new accent. It was wonderful to understand him as a person. Because of the nature of the plot, Cummings and Craig Oliver only appear together in one imagined scene. In shock after the murder of MP Jo Cox, they meet over a pint to understand where the other is coming from, and how the arguments have run so The Brexit Club: The Inside Story of the Leave Campaigns Shock Victory of control. Benedict pictured as Dominic says the drama is both amusing and horrifying in equal measure. And a scruffy Johnson is seen waving shyly at Gove at the opera before they joined Vote Leave. No comments have so far been submitted. Why not be the first to send us your thoughts, or debate this issue live on our message boards. Argos AO. Share this article Share. 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