Operation Sabotage Brexit: Now Europhiles ‘ruthlessly’ target MPs
New evidence of foreign billionaire Soros’s plot
‘Worried about keeping their job’ PLOT TO SUBVERT BREXIT EXPOSED
PRO-EU supporters are being trained to ‘ruthlessly’ target MPs in a series of nationwide roadshows aimed at stopping Brexit.
The Best for Britain campaign, which is backed by billionaire George Soros, pictured, is using the events to highlight ways activists can ‘press the right buttons’ to frighten politicians into voting against leaving Europe.
The strategy includes getting negative stories about MPs in the local and national papers because these will ‘get to them on a personal level’.
It also encourages mass phone-ins and letter-writing campaigns to scare MPs with slim majorities into believing they will lose their seat if they support Brexit.
Activists are told: ‘Like anyone, an MP is worried about keeping their job. This is a very personal motivator, and raising uncertainty in their mind about this can have an enormous impact on their actions.’
Supporters are also encouraged to stop people in the street and try to convince them to lobby their MP on the issue.
The details of the anti-Brexit roadshows come after the Mail was given leaked papers that show Best for Britain has launched a six-month plan to stop the UK leaving the EU.
The group, which aims to spend £5.6 million on the campaign, plans to rubbish whatever final agreement Theresa May strikes with Brussels – arguing it is ‘ not what we voted for’.
A key part of the campaign is a series of so- called ‘ Barnstorming’ events in halls and schools around the country. Meetings have already been held in Bedford, Glasgow, Stirling, Bangor, Dudley and Exeter and further events are planned in Canterbury, Reading and Scotland next month.
A ‘guide to fighting Brexit’ handed out this week at the event in Bedford, where Labour MP Mohammad Yasin has a majority of just 789, said the main objective is to make it is possible for MPs to ‘come out in support of No Brexit and still win reelection’. It added: ‘ Conversely, where those MPs will perhaps never support a No Brexit position, it is our job to ruthlessly campaign against them.’
One of the techniques encouraged was making phone calls ‘en masse’ during ‘phone-in parties’ where hundreds of people phone MPs’ offices and urge them to publicly support a No Brexit option. A similar tactic is advised for a letter-writing campaign, with organisers stressing ‘it’s more impactful if they all arrive on the same day’. Campaigners are also encouraged to convert Brexiteers to the Remain side by organising a ‘neutral persuasion event’.
The events organiser, who previously worked for a MP, said: ‘We do a lot of work behind the scenes, talking to MPs directly about where their vote is, but at a local level providing a large group of very vocal constituents that they know vote, it can only help tip them over the balance.
‘If they see they’ve got a majority in Bedford of 700 and something, so if you can find 800 people to write in, and they know those 800 people vote, that’s their majority gone.’ Another technique was encouraging ‘ bad press’ about MPs in the local papers by writing to the letters page, he said.
‘MPs are absolutely certain to read the local paper and the opinions of the local paper and a prominent story in the local paper is definitely going to make them spend an afternoon worrying about how they respond.’
Best for Britain was launched last April ahead of the snap general election.
It was fronted by Gina Miller, who took the Government to court over Brexit, but quit earlier this year and later criticised the group’s hardline tactics.
It has accepted a £400,000 donation from Mr Soros, the Hungarian-born financier who bet against sterling on Black Wednesday in 1992 – earning him £1 billion. He then promised £100,000 more, matching a crowdfunding push, and later gave another £300,000.
Board members include Lord Malloch-Brown, who was a foreign minister under Gordon Brown, and chief executive Eloise Todd, who worked in Brussels for Bono’s charity ONE.
It has been putting up billboards around the country calling for a second vote. On its website, Best for Britain declares: ‘We are fighting to keep the UK open to EU membership. Because that is what’s Best for Britain. We are working to make sure citizens of the UK can make a fully-informed decision on the future of our country, in or out of Europe.
‘The biggest decision on Brexit is yet to come: whether we should accept or reject the final deal.’
The documents revealed by the Mail yesterday said the group’s strategic goals included ‘ stop Brexit’ and ‘win a people’s vote to stay and lead in Europe’.
It sets out a three-pronged strategy to persuade ‘soft’ Leave voters to change their minds, mobilise hardline Remainers into action, and shift the Labour Party into an anti-Brexit stance.
The documents say: ‘ We’ve raised £ 2.4 million, we need another £3.2 million. Our activity is essentially scalable – how many we reach is directly proportional to what we can spend.’
Miss Todd said: ‘ We believe in training people to campaign in their areas, contact their MPs and try and persuade them that there is a better future for Britain if we stay in the EU. If some Brexiteer MPs are worried to hear from their voters and fear trying to defend their discredited case for Brexit, then maybe politics is not for them.’