Their anti-Tory banners at football games & ours
I was intrigued by banners at a couple of Premiership football games today promoting stopboris.com. They weren’t in the crowd but being flown from a plane. That requires money-to hire the plane and pilot and paperwork to get permission to fly the plane. Why not just hold a banner up in the crowd, as indeed fans did at Anfield before Christmas. That costs no more than a few quid for a banner and paint and of course willing people to hold it. Clearly there is no shortage of anti-Tories at Anfield.
So who are StopBoris.Com? I’m not sure. They have a basic website but it is linked to Open Britain. OB dates back to 2015 and was part of the People’s Vote campaign that organised or at least promoted some very large marches against Brexit. It fell apart in 2019 partly due to disagreements at the top but also because it became clear that ultimately it was more interested in stopping a Labour victory led by Corbyn than it was in stopping Brexit. The headline issue was that at the 2019 Election the LibDems campaigned (disastrously)for staying in the EU come what may which rather undermined the idea of having a People’s Vote on the matter.
Everyone except Roland Rudd at the top resigned, amidst in-fighting but he too left in August 2021 (Companies House)
Clearly lots of those who went on Peoples Vote marches and some at least who worked on the campaign genuinely did oppose Brexit. You can take a view on whether that was good or bad (I voted remain but dont have any love for EU structures) but rather different agendas were running at the top
The current COO is Mitchell Westra who certainly was involved with Peoples Vote but how he appeared in his current role I’m not sure. Looking across Stop Boris and OB the aims seem far enough to me- a more democratic Britain, Citizens Assemblies etc.
Aside from Mr Westra there are no contact details in terms of an address or named supporters. Perhaps it is meant as a virtual campaign. Given the People’s Vote operation, which was not what it seemed ultimately, it would be interesting to know
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