Farage, Banks, Wigmore, Ashcroft, Bryant, Sugar
1. PBS (2016), “Trump and Farage’s Alliance is More Complicated Than You Think”, 30th August 2016.
www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-farages-alliance-complicated-think
2. Daily Mail (2016), “Prime Minister Ukippered in race to see Trump: Nigel Farage Could be the First UK Politician to Meet the New President” 13th November 2016.
3. Independent (2016), “Who’s in Nigel Farage’s Gold Brexit gang photo with Donald Trump?”, 14th November 2016.
4. Standard (2016), “Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize 2016, exhibition review: Nigel Farage portrait an unwelcome shock among parade of diverse humanity”, 21st November 2016.
5. Guardian (2016), “The Shambassador’s Reception: Tycoons are Spoiling Nigel Farage”, 24th November 2016.
6. Times (2017), “Leave Crusader Loses Belize Envoy Job After Johnson Intervention”, 2nd February 2017.
7. BBC (2017), “ Nigel Farage has Dinner with Donald Trump”. 26th February 2017.
8. Salon (2017), “Brexit Engineer Nigel Farage Hired to Promote Effort to Break California in Two”, 27th March 2017.
9. Daily Kos (2017), “Nigel Farage a Person of Interest in #TrumpRussia, Because Of Course He is”, 1st June 2017.
10. Political Scrapbook (2017), “The Deleted Photo of Farage’s Fishing Trip With Putin’s Favourite US Politician”, 12th July 2017.
11. Ir.Net (2017), “EXCLUSIVE: Evidence of Another Trump/Russia Meeting on June 17, 2016?”, 14th July 2017.
ir.net/news/politics/125987/exclusive-evidence-another-trumprussia-meeting-june-17–2016/
12. Zelo Street (2017), “Nigel Farage — Russian Asset”, 1st August 2017.
http://zelo-street.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/nigel-farage-russian-asset.html
13. Open Democracy UK (2017), “How did Arron Banks Afford Brexit?”, 19th October 2017.
www.opendemocracy.net/uk/brexitinc/adam-ramsay/how-did-arron-banks-afford-brexit
14. Guardian (2017), “Former Farage Aide Gave US Information in Plea Deal, Court Files Show”, 7th June 2017.
15. Byline (2017), ““#Snowman Series 8 — Alfa Males: Russia Ties Deepen”, 12th May 2017.
www.byline.com/column/67/article/1653
16. Byline( 2017), “Before Paradise: The Tangled Web of BREXIT, Trump and Russia”, 5th November 2017.
www.byline.com/column/67/article/1928
17. Byline (2017), “We Need to Talk About Nigel”, 6th November 2017.
www.byline.com/column/67/article/1929
18. George Cottrell
19. Daily Beast (2017), “Meet ‘Posh George’: The Shady Money Man Tangled Up With Brexit, Russia, and Trump”, 28th December 2017.
www.thedailybeast.com/meet-posh-george-the-shady-money-man-tangled-up-with-brexit-russia-and-trump
20. Aaron Banks Profile NS
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2016/10/arron-banks-man-who-bought-brexit
21. Brexit Campaign’s Use of GOP Strategist Broke Election Law [Gerry Gunster]
www.thedailybeast.com/brexit-campaigns-use-of-gop-strategist-broke-election-law
22. Washington Post (2018), “This is How Putin Buys Influence in the West”, 15th June 2018.
23. The Canary (2018), “A Never Seen Before Photo of Nigel Farage Taken after the Leave Vote is Blowing up”, 28th June 2018.
24. The Guardian (2018), “Revealed: Arron Banks met Russian Ambassador 11 times”, 8th July 2018.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/08/arron-banks-met-russian-ambassador-11-times-lucrative-deals
25. Wendy Siegelman (2018), “ Brexit ‘Bad Boy’ Arron Banks, another ‘Bad Boy’, and a Fund that Invested in Russian Diamond Company Alrosa in 2013 and 2016 with the Russian Direct Investment Fund”, 9th July 2018.
26. Royal Gazette (2018), “Brexit Backer Banks visits Bermuda”, 1st November 2018.
www.royalgazette.com/politics/article/20181101/brexit-backer-banks-visits-bermuda
27. Farage — Cruz Trump ISPs
twitter.com/Redrum_of_Crows/status/1074500035340001280
twitter.com/peterjukes/status/1074494042463965184
28. James Patrick (2019), “Kremlin Social Media Backing Jacob Rees-Mogg (2018)”, 3rd February 2019.
bylinetimes.com/2019/02/03/kremlin-social-media-backing-jacob-rees-mogg-2018/
29. Peter Jukes (2019), “Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson Adviser Steve Bannon Implicated in Mueller Investigation”, 25th January 2019.
30. Bloomberg (2019), “The Mysterious Finances of the Brexit Campaign’s Biggest Backer”, 24th February 2019.
www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-02-24/brexit-backer-aaron-banks-how-much-is-he-worth
31. Channel 4 News (2019), “The Banks Files: How Brexit ‘Bad Boy’ Arron Banks was Eyeing a Massive Russian Gold Deal”, 5th March 2019.
32. Guardian (2019), “‘Bad boys of Brexit’ were Guests at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club”, 21st March 2019.
33. Buzz Feed (2019), “New Video Shows Nigel Farage Courting Fringe Right-Wing Figures At A Private Tea Party Hosted At The Ritz”, 21st May 2019.
www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/farage-ritz-tea-party
34. Byline Times (2019), “Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage’s ‘World for Brexit’: What is their Opaque New US Lobbying Group About?”, 1st August 2019.
bylinetimes.com/2019/08/01/bannon-and-farage-again-opaque-us-lobbying-group-intervenes-in-brexit/
NT Butterfield
Bermuda Stock Exchange (2017), “Meroe Park Joins Butterfield Board”, 6th October 2017.
www.bsx.com/news_articles.php?ArticleID=1100797294
General
35. Desderamona June 2017 onwards
twitter.com/desderamona/status/870273605896208385
36. Moggmentum
twitter.com/BylineFest/status/1092152062157172738
37. Fair Vote UK
fairvote.uk/tag/cambridge-analytica/
38. Old Down Estate: olddownestate.co.uk/2018/08/24/the-history-of-old-down-estate/
Sugar-Sugar
39. Guardian (2000), “The Beet Goes on”, 26th November 2000.
www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/26/wto.comment
The Third World and consumers will still be ripped off, but at least the Conservative Party will have re-established its role as clients of the sugar industry. From 1945 onwards, Tate & Lyle was a generous corporate sponsor. In 1996, with the party heading for defeat, the company spread its bets in a tripartisan fashion by funding New Labour and the Liberal Democrats as well as their traditional friends.
This year, Michael Portillo rebuilt bridges when he promised to abolish Labour taxes on companies which move money offshore, after Tate & Lyle, among others, had complained of the pain it would suffer from being made to pay its way. Bowen Wells, the Tory chairman of the International Development Committee, was an adviser to Michael Ashcroft, the offshore banker whose donations to the party brought him a peerage. Welles lobbied on Tate & Lyle’s behalf. The company enjoyed the indulgent tax benefits offered by Ashcroft’s Bank of Belize. Wells joined the assault on Short in the Commons last week.
40. Guardian (2007), “Sweet Brexit: what sugar tells us about Britain’s future outside the EU”, 27th March 2017.
www.theguardian.com/business/2017/mar/27/brexit-sugar-beet-cane-tate-lyle-british-sugar
41. The Pinprick (2017), “Daydream Belizers: Brexit, Big Sugar and the Bad Boys from Belize”, 11th December 2017.
thepinprick.com/2017/12/11/daydream-belizers-brexit-big-sugar-and-the-strange-case-of-andy-wigmore/
42. Byline (2018), “We Didn’t Really Appreciate the Machinations” — Andy Wigmore: The BREXIT Interview”, 2nd March 2018.
www.byline.com/column/67/article/2073
43. Belize Times “The Wonderor and the Price of Sugar”, 31st July 2016. P. 26.
issuu.com/lucilo/docs/belize_times_july_31__2016
44. Washington Post (2013), “The U.S. Sugar Industry: Names to Know”, 7th December 2013.
45. Pro Market (2016), “Meet the Sugar Barons Who Used Both Sides of American Politics to Get Billions in Subsidies”, 19th September 2016.
promarket.org/sugar-industry-buys-academia-politicians/
46. New Yorker (2019), “The Chaotic Triumph of Arron Banks, the “Bad Boy of Brexit”
www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/25/the-chaotic-triumph-of-arron-banks-the-bad-boy-of-brexit
In his book, Banks writes that he “grew up in Durban,” in South Africa. “All Out War,” a definitive account of the E.U. referendum by the British journalist Tim Shipman, similarly asserts that Banks spent his “early life” in South Africa. But Banks told me that although his father worked in the sugar trade abroad, mostly in southern and eastern Africa, he had remained behind in England, where his mother lived, and that until the age of eleven or twelve he had attended a “local school.”
What is beyond doubt is that, at around the age of twelve, Banks was sent to a tumbledown boarding school in Berkshire, England, called Crookham Court. At the end of each term, he told me, he was flown to wherever his father was then working — South Africa, Swaziland, Somalia — as if he were an “Army brat.” This peripatetic childhood seems to have informed his later politics. Banks shares with some other Brexiteers an imperial nostalgia.
47. American Sugar Refining [ASR Group]
www.revolvy.com/page/American-Sugar-Refining
“In the EU, the company owns and operates sugar refineries in England and Portugal, formerly owned by Tate & Lyle. The company’s products are sold through a brand portfolio that includes the premier sugar brands Domino, C&H, Florida Crystals, Redpath, and Tate & Lyle. The company is also the majority shareholder of Belize Sugar Industries, the only sugar mill in Belize”.
48. Fanjul Brothers
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanjul_brothers
49. Carole Cadwalldr Dylan Vernon Sugar Committee 20th November 2018
twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1064845494860607488
50. Amandala (2012), ”Sugar and Spice; Sugar Rolls the Dice”, 28th September 2012.
amandala.com.bz/news/sugar-spice-sugar-rolls-dice/
51. Breaking Belize News (2019), “IDB $15 million loan will help struggling sugar industry”, 25th February 2019.
www.breakingbelizenews.com/2019/02/25/idb-15-million-loan-will-help-struggling-sugar-industry/
Belize’s primary exports: citrus, sugar & bananas. Growing trade deficit. Low export sugar prices for now. Preferential trading agreements w. US (cane sugar) & UK (bananas). Production: Belize 17 te/acre Mexico 30 Guatemala 41. Room for growth. Lots of land. EU is all sugar beet.
52. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Belize
Wigmore
53. Guardian (2018), “Brexit Bad Boy’ Andy Wigmore and why Praising the Nazis is Never a Good Idea
54. Wigmore Selfies_1
www.pictame.com/user/andywigmore/232571194
55. Wigmore Selfies_2
56. EU Press Release (1998), “The Commission Imposes Fines for Violation of the European Competition Rules on Great Britain’s Sugar Market”, 14th October 1998.
europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-98–898_en.htm?locale=en
57. Wendy Siegelman Bryant-Ashcroft- Banks-Wigmore-Gunster-Boykin 3rd December 2017
twitter.com/wendysiegelman/status/937349065804845057
Ashcroft
58. Bad Boys of Brexit: Michael Ashcroft: https://badboysofbrexit.com/tag/bad-boys-of-brexit/
59. Lord Ashcroft Polls: lordashcroftpolls.com/2018/04/brexit-britain-wont-forget-old-friends/
60. BBC (1999), “Tories Defend Party Treasurer”, 13th July 1999.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/393337.stm
61. Guardian (1999), “Tories Block Ashcroft Evidence”, 27th July 1999.
www.theguardian.com/politics/1999/jul/27/thatcher.uk2
62. Guardian (1999), “Ashcroft Innocent Says US”, 28th July 1999.
www.theguardian.com/politics/1999/jul/28/thatcher.uk
63. WSWS (1999), “The Case of British Tory Treasurer Michael Ashcroft: Wealth, Patronage and Parliamentary Politics”, 4th August 1999.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/1999/08/ash-a04.html
64. Guardian (2000), “Tory Treasurer Says Sorry After Blazing Diplomatic Row”, 21st December 2000.
www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/21/conservatives.politics
65. Guardian (2001), “Why the Secret World of Belize Business Alarmed US Drug Agents”, 4th June 2001.
www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/jun/04/freedomofinformation.ashcroft
66. Guardian (2001), “‘Scumbag’ Row Escalates With Letter to Lawyers”, 25th July 2001.
www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/jul/25/conservatives.ashcroft
67. Wall Street Journal (2002), “Tyco Probe Ends Brief Period Of Quiet for Michael Ashcroft”, 13th June 2002.
www.wsj.com/articles/SB1023911741736103040
68. Guardian (2009), “Lord Ashcroft ‘Subjugated a Nation’, Claims Belize Prime Minister”, 28th August 2009.
www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/aug/28/michael-ashcroft-belize-telemedia-barrow
69. New Statesman (2013), “Lord Ashcroft: “The Prime Minister’s Most Damaging Critic”, 24th February 2013.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2013/02/i-am-private-not-secretive-man
70. Daily Telegraph (2015), “A Pig, Some Drugs and a Disappointed Billionaire: the Life of David Cameron”, 21st September 2015.
71. Politico (2015), “Who on Earth is Lord Ashcroft”, 22nd September 2015.
www.politico.eu/article/who-on-earth-is-lord-ashcroft/
72. Vice (2015), “What the Story of the Billionaire Behind Pig-Gate Tells Us About British Politics”, 25th September 2015.
www.vice.com/en_us/article/8gkmpa/lord-ashcroft-the-man-behind-call-me-dave-001
73. This is Money (2015), “Two Banks Owned by Lord Ashcroft at Centre of Major US Tax Evasion Probe”, 3rd October 2015.
www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-3258842/Ashcroft-banks-centre-major-tax-evasion-probe.html
74. Time (2016), “Lord Ashcroft: Donald Trump Is Like Brexit In 3 Key Ways”, 2nd November 2016.
time.com/4554738/donald-trump-brexit-ashcroft/
75. BBC (2017), “Paradise Papers: Lord Ashcroft Stayed non-Dom Despite Pledges”, 5th November 2017.
www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-41879422
76. Guardian (2018), “Lord Ashcroft Praises Malta as Base for UK Business During Brexit”, 29th June 2018.
77. Mellon-Ashcroft Palma 1/9/2019
twitter.com/MacFinn44/status/1168331711958196224
Cocaine and Passports
78. Hansard 21st July 1999
publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199899/cmhansrd/vo990721/debtext/90721–08.htm
79. Guardian (1999), “Cocaine Seized on Ships in Tory Chief’s List”, 18th July 1999.
www.theguardian.com/politics/1999/jul/18/thatcher.uk
80. Independent (1999), “Ashcroft Sold Belize Passports for Pounds 33,000”, 21st July 2019.
www.independent.co.uk/news/ashcroft-sold-belize-passports-for-pounds-33000-1107638.html
81. Independent (1999), “MP Links Ashcroft to Drug and Money-Laundering Inquiries”, 22nd July 1999.
www.independent.co.uk/news/mp-links-ashcroft-to-drug-and-money-laundering-inquiries-1107822.html
Mississippi
82. Mississippi Today (2016) “How Donald Trump and Nigel Farage Met in Mississippi”, 15th November 2016.
mississippitoday.org/2016/11/15/how-donald-trump-and-nigel-farage-met-in-mississippi/
83. Clarion Ledger (2016), “New Brexit Book: Bryant Arranged Trump-Farage Hookup”, 16th November 2016.
eu.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/2016/11/15/bryant-trump-farage/93898020/
84. Wendy Siegelman and James Patrick “Alfa Males: Russia Ties Deepen”, 13th May 2017.
medium.com/@wsiegelman/alfa-males-russia-ties-deepen-bff848d3dc0d
85. Magnolia State Live (2018), “Why Brexit Bankroller Arron Banks Launched a Data Firm in Oxford, Mississippi”, 19th April 2018.
magnoliastatelive.com/brexit-bankroller-arron-banks-launched-data-firm-oxford-mississippi/
86. Jackson Free Press (2018), “UPDATED: Inside the ‘Brexit Boys’ Data Project at Ole Miss”, 7th June 2018.
www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2018/jun/07/brexit-boys-data-project-ole-miss-could-use-missis/
87. Jackson Free Press (2018), “How A ‘Brexit Boys’ Project Ended Up in Jackson Court”, 13th June 2018.
www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2018/jun/13/how-brexit-boys-project-ended-jackson-court/
88. Think Progress (2018), “Mississippi’s Republican Governor is Ensnared in Post-Brexit Lawsuit”, 18th June 2018.
thinkprogress.org/brexit-comes-to-mississippi-e782e89cc529/
89. Very Good Read by my Friend Lord Aschroft
twitter.com/PhilBryantMS/status/1088917315868078081
90. Time (2018) ”The Republican Party’s Best Hope for 2020? The Left’s Indignation”, 23rd January 2019.
time.com/5510593/2020-presidential-election-republicans/
91. The Great Consolidation (2018) “The GOP’s Involvement with the Russians Precedes Trump, Mississippi Edition”, 9th June 2018.
www.thegreatconsolidation.com/2018/06/the-gops-involvement-with-russians.html
Wendy Siegelman Twitter
92. Alfa Males: Russia Ties Deepen 15th May 2017
twitter.com/WendySiegelman/status/863909427732246528
93. Bryant’s British Invasion December 3rd 2017
twitter.com/WendySiegelman/status/937347690190589953
94. Wendy Siegelman 19th September 2019 Several Severcor
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1174468838034944000.html
95. Matt Prescott 16th November 2019 World for BREXIT/CALEXIT
twitter.com/mattprescott/status/1230367036196478976
Malta
96. Conservative Home (2018), “Lord Ashcroft: Special Report — Malta Makes a Strong Case to Host the EU Outposts of British Companies after Brexit”, 28th June 2018.
97. CBC (2018, “Rich Russians Needing an Exit Strategy Turn to Malta, Where Citizenship is for Sale
www.cbc.ca/news/world/russians-malta-oligarchs-rich-citizenship-1.4483144
98. Bloomberg (2018), “Why Russians Are Choosing Malta Over Putin”, 11th January 2018.
www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-11/why-russians-are-choosing-malta-over-putin
Lynton Crosby
Oakeshott
102. Greg Lance-Watkins
