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'Get Ready for Brexit' campaign spent £46m of taxpayers' cash without making a difference, watchdog finds
28/01/2020
Publicity splurge was much-mocked at the time for leaving people in the dark about the preparations they should make.
Government has spent £96,684 in past week on Facebook ads backing Theresa May’s deal
And the Green Party is not happy about it.
Irish Freedom Party wants to run candidates in the European elections.
Posters repeat Gove claim UK will hold all the cards and Rees-Mogg call for second vote.
Boris Johnson And Michael Gove 'Breached Ministerial Code' With No-Deal Brexit Ads, Says Jo Swinson
12/09/2019
'Get Ready For Brexit' ads "misleading" and "nothing more than a Conservative Party case", MPs claim in letter to top civil servant.
Prime minister Boris Johnson is planning to 'love-bomb' Scotland with a £5 million advertising campaign to attempt to save the union.
Boris Johnson's £100 million Brexit advertising campaign labelled 'inaccurate' and 'misleading'
26/09/2019
'Nowhere, not even in the small print, does it mention that the law of the land may prevent a no-deal Brexit'
Another Brexit advertising campaign. They've replaced sporting events as signs of the changing seasons. Instead of Wimbledon or the Olympics, we get Michael Gove talking gibberish on television and further millions poured into preparedness exercises for an outcome with no tangible benefits.
Activists raise more than £270,000 for campaign. / Political billboards have popped up across the UK, from Glasgow to Dover, thanks to anti-Brexit group Led By Donkeys.
The Brexit Party has been accused of “hypocrisy” over an unpaid bill of at least £22,000 after it refused to pay its debts despite an order from a Scottish court.
Stella Creasy MP challenged the prime minister over the content of a presentation allegedly shown in 3,000 schools around the country.
A presentation on Boris Johnson and his Brexit stance which was allegedly broadcast to hundreds of digital noticeboards in primary schools has sparked outrage among parents and MPs.
Banks is suing Guardian journalist for defamation over Brexit backer’s ‘covert relationship’ with Russia.
Eighth Report of Session 2017–19
Don't panic! Don't panic! UK IT job ads plummet as Brexit uncertainty grabs UK tech sector by the short and curlies
21/08/2019
IT job postings in the UK are being battered by Brexit and the lingering uncertainty of leaving the EU without a Withdrawal Agreement on 31 October.
A journalist has tried to smash the wall of silence around NI’s record political donation.
Two European technology firms have taken out advertising space to promote their businesses, trolling Brits on their decision to leave the European Union at the same time.
The Brexit deadline is hurtling towards us, and citizens across the UK still aren't allowed to know who bankrolls the politicians deciding the country's future.
Sources say company has run seemingly independent pro-Brexit campaigns since 2017.
A series of hugely influential Facebook advertising campaigns that appear to be separate grassroots movements for a no-deal Brexit are secretly overseen by employees of Sir Lynton Crosby’s lobbying company and a former adviser to Boris Johnson, documents seen by the Guardian reveal.
Carole Cadwalladr digs into one of the most perplexing events in recent times: the UK's super-close 2016 vote to leave the European Union. Tracking the result to a barrage of misleading Facebook ads targeted at vulnerable Brexit swing voters -- and linking the same players and tactics to the 2016 US presidential election -- Cadwalladr calls out the "gods of Silicon Valley" ...
Posters exposing politicians’ lies and hypocrisy over leaving the EU are appearing across the UK. The friends behind the Led By Donkeys campaign explain why they had to take action.
Adverts targeting Polish nurses also boast Germany is much closer to family at home.
Pro-remain group’s website encourages public to redesign government campaign.
Government prepares ‘shock and awe’ advertising campaign to force businesses to prepare for Brexit
18/06/2020
The £4.5m advertising campaign will include plans to spur Brits into taking action to prepare for the end of the transitional period in December
The 'Get Ready for Brexit' media blitz cost an estimated £100m — but the National Audit Office suggests the ads failed to resonate.
'We’re still seeing the effects of Brexit on the economy': GroupM forecasts lower ad spend growth for UK compared to the global average.
Lewis Silkin LLP partner Brinsley Dresden explains why brands should be careful of using nationalism to try to sell products.
How Much Has Brexit Actually Cost The UK?
31/01/2020
We looked at breakdowns by analysts and the government on the money spent so far, and the estimates on what is still to come.
Investigation follows revelations of Lynton Crosby firm running ad campaign calling voters to lobby MPs.
The UK’s Electoral Commission has published the results of a near nine-month-long investigation into Brexit referendum spending and has found that the official Vote Leave campaign broke the law by breaching election campaign spending limits.
Armed with ladders, roller brushes and a treasure trove of damning statements by our leaders, we slapped up their biggest lies onto posters around the country. But this guerrilla operation has its limitations.
A UK Government “propaganda” blitz is attempting to “gloss over” the “mayhem and disruption” caused by Brexit, it has been claimed.
The Mail’s chief revenue officer has said Brexit was bad for advertising – even though the brand has been one of the most vociferous backers of quitting the EU.
Williams is pushed to expand how Brexit has impacted business. “That is definitely having an effect on advertising spend, because of the UK economy,” he replies.
Is a big British version of GDPR likely to balance the demands of consumers, advertisers and media owners alike? We ask marketers what they think of the UK’s planned divergence.
MI5 had evidence that Arron Banks ‘ordered surveillance’ of information commissioner, MP claims in Commons
22/01/2022
Labour MP alleges Elizabeth Denham was warned by counter-terrorism officers and that ‘her office had to be swept’.
Get Ready for Brexit ads a waste of money as 31 October no-deal EU exit now unlikely, say critics.
The single biggest known British political advertiser on Facebook is a mysterious pro-Brexit campaign group pushing for a no-deal exit from the EU. The revelation about Britain’s Future, which has never disclosed the source of its funding or organisational structure, has raised concerns about the influence of “dark money” in British politics.
Britain’s Future has spent £88,000 on pro-Brexit ads despite Facebook transparency promises.
The government has ordered mugs and t-shirts emblazoned with the slogan. / The government will urge the public to "Get ready" for a no-deal Brexit through a £100m advertising push to begin next week.
The commercial departments of Brexit-supporting newspapers know the damage being caused to the UK economy, and newspaper advertising revenues, by Brexit. Their editorial colleagues continue to support it anyway.
Despite an agreement by all groups to suspend campaigning in the aftermath of Jo Cox’s death, Arron Banks instructed the social media team at Leave.EU to “boost” an existing sponsored Facebook ad.
The Guerrilla Anti-Brexit Campaign Trolling Politicians With Their Own Words Is 'Going Legit'
21/01/2019
The mysterious anti-Brexit guerrilla campaign plastering the UK’s billboards with awkward quotes from politicians is “going legitimate” after smashing its crowdfunding target.
Sean Topham and Ben Guerin have worked on campaigns for Australia’s rightwing coalition and Glencore mining firm.
Tory Daniel Hannan says NHS is for fools
28/01/2012
Top Tory Daniel Hannan has again rubbished the NHS, suggesting no sane person would support it.
HuffPost UK has learned that ministers authorised more than 20 adverts, paid for with taxpayers’ cash, to go live on Tuesday, the same day Boris Johnson got MPs to back a snap general election.
Twitter is to ban all political advertising on its site claiming the influence of such a message should be "earned, not bought".
The official Vote Leave campaign spent more than £2.7m on targeting ads at specific groups of people on Facebook - helping it to win the 2016 EU referendum.
Vote Leave’s dark ads shame: UK steel set to suffer from EU’s tariff-free agreement with US
04/01/2022
Unite's national officer for steel said the government needed to explain why the EU had a deal but the UK did not.
MPs’ frustrations grow as new evidence in America reopens the issue of Kremlin influence.
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