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Vote Leave fined over thousands of unsolicited texts




The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has fined Brexit Campaign group Vote Leave £40,000 ($53,000) for sending out nearly 200,000 unsolicited text messages.

The text messages contained a link to the campaign website alongside information about its ambitions.

They were sent in the run-up to the EU referendum in 2016.

The ICO said the group had been unable to prove that everyone who received the message had consented to the contact.

Vote Leave said it had gathered numbers from people who had contacted it.

It said the numbers came from website enquiries, texts it had received in response to other promotions and from running its own football competition.

Pro-Brexit Labour group fined by watchdog
Early on in the campaign, Vote Leave launched a competition with a prize of £50m for correctly guessing the result of all 51 games in the 2016 European football championship.

The odds of winning the contest - which Vote Leave funded through an insurance policy - were calculated at one in 5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

According to the ICO, Vote Leave said that since the referendum it had deleted records of the consent, the phone numbers the messages were sent to and the volume of messages sent and received.

The ICO put the figure at 194,154 messages.

The email address provided on the Vote Leave website no longer works.

"Spam texts are a real nuisance for millions of people and we will take action against organisations who disregard the law," said Steve Eckersley, ICO Director of Investigations.

"Direct marketing is not just about selling products and services. It's also about promoting an organisation's aims and ideals.

"Political campaigns and parties, like any other organisations, have to comply with the law."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47623413

[arista]

[PM May to request only 'short delay'
to Brexit in letter to EU
An extension until 30 June is expected
as that is the last day Britain could remain
in the EU without taking part in EU elections.]

https://news.sky.com/story/theresa-m...to-eu-11670616

[Northern Monkey]

Originally Posted by arista

[PM May to request only 'short delay'
to Brexit in letter to EU
An extension until 30 June is expected
as that is the last day Britain could remain
in the EU without taking part in EU elections.]

https://news.sky.com/story/theresa-m...to-eu-11670616

There is absolutely no point in the EU giving us an extension unless they’re willing to open up the withdrawal agreement.
Otherwise in three months we’ll be in exactly the same position.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

There is absolutely no point in the EU giving us an extension unless they’re willing to open up the withdrawal agreement.
Otherwise in three months we’ll be in exactly the same position.

Yes
nothing has changed


Pathetic PM

[Northern Monkey]

Originally Posted by arista

Yes
nothing has changed


Pathetic PM

Pathetic UK Parliament.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

Pathetic UK Parliament.

Yes not able to agree on anything

[arista]

PMQ's Live
The PM just confirmed she will ask the EU for a short extension
30th of June

[Benjamin]

I literally don’t care anymore, just leave or don’t. Make a decision and do it, stop dragging it out.

[Twosugars]

A short extension? Doesn't make sense at this point.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Benjamin

I literally don’t care anymore, just leave or don’t. Make a decision and do it, stop dragging it out.

Yes she wants to Extend
to the 30th of June.
So far she EU is not happy to do that.


She wants to Drag it on

[arista]

Originally Posted by Twosugars

A short extension? Doesn't make sense at this point.

It because of the UK having to do the EU Elections
which the PM does not.

[Twosugars]

Originally Posted by arista

It because of the UK having to do the EU Elections
which the PM does not.

couldn't they allow the uk to simply extend the mandates of the current MEPs?

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by arista

Yes she wants to Extend
to the 30th of June.
So far she EU is not happy to do that.


She wants to Drag it on

of course EU isn't happy about this, it would mean this brexit chaos to go on and on for even longer and they don't want that

[Twosugars]

They may have to force her out of office, she's too inflexible with that bloody deal of hers.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Twosugars

couldn't they allow the uk to simply extend the mandates of the current MEPs?

Its all pre-set
to end, next week
I believe

[arista]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

of course EU isn't happy about this, it would mean this brexit chaos to go on and on for even longer and they don't want that

She will be in your Nation
tomorrow.

And the Labour Leader is also going
for his own talks. (he told us in PMQ's)

[arista]

Originally Posted by Twosugars

They may have to force her out of office, she's too inflexible with that bloody deal of hers.

A General Election
could be the only solution
but the Conservatives must Elect a new leader
fast/

[Twosugars]

Originally Posted by arista

A General Election
could be the only solution
but the Conservatives must Elect a new leader
fast/

yes, it may come to that

[The Slim Reaper]

Youtube video

[bots]

Originally Posted by Twosugars

They may have to force her out of office, she's too inflexible with that bloody deal of hers.

they can't force her out, she would have to resign. Wouldn't blame her if she did resign. She will go down in history as one of the worst prime ministers ever, and that's not going to change now, but, I don't believe anyone could have got a deal together that would have been accepted in parliament, because the majority of MP's don't want to leave, even if thats what the country voted for.

[arista]

Yes we had all that on Ch4HD news
who broke it.

[arista]

The EU Donald Tusk has now replied to the PM's request
saying the UK must leave by May the 23rd
or must enter EU Elections......................


and
14:09
[French magazine reports Emmanuel Macron will veto Theresa May's request to extend Article 50]

[arista]

The Speaker
has granted a Emergency Brexit Debate for Today.

Labour want a Long Extension

[arista]

Live now

[bots]

I can see us leaving with a no deal next week and May disappearing into the sunset. I think the EU is going to put conditions on any extension that just wont be acceptable and will cement the reasons why people want to leave