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Britain makes a noise.

An actual noise, did you know that?

I feel I should almost apologise.

It says here you basically ran

the Leave campaign, and, yet...

..and, yet, I doubt most people

have ever heard of you.

It groans.

It's been groaning for some time.

Must be annoying,

Old Boris getting all the credit.

Oh, I don't seek the limelight.

A hum, that only very

few people can hear.

Never stopping.

Mr Cummings?

This inquiry was established

by the Information Commissioner's

Office

following revelations concerning

the European referendum

four years ago in 2016.

Its primary purpose is to

investigate the use

of our personal data

in political campaigns,

and the way in which it is

rapidly...

..altering

democratic processes here...

A million important

questions to be asked of our nation.

Our species, our planet,

and no-one's asking the right ones.

I mean, we're an education

Think t*nk, primarily.

And, er, well, you were once

special advisor

to the Education Secretary, so...

Your reputation precedes you.

Although we'll try not to believe

everything we hear.

All I hear is noise.

Do you have any thoughts?

Yeah, it's f*cked, we're all f*cked.

What are your thoughts on providing

strategy for our many clients?

Be polite. Engaged.

Don't tell them what

you're really thinking.

So...

..what do you think?

What do I think?

Just breathe,

and think of Mary. Breathe?

I think... Dominic?

What do you think?

Breathe.

I think...

Oh, sh*t.

Stupid. You should advise your

businesses that as a global society

we are entering a series of profound

economic, cultural, social

and political transitions, the like

of which the world has never seen.

Educated people are the most stupid.

Massive increase

in resource requirements.

You need an Odyssean education. A

rising tide of religious extremism.

A synthesis of...inter-generational

inequality in the West

on an historic level. Apollonian

rationality and Dionysian intuition.

I would tell them that for the past

years, decades, even,

this firm has failed...

..to prepare any of them

for any of it.

It's not like the UK has experienced

anything like Brexit before.

Brexit will never be a win-win.

The course that Brexit will take...

..of our approach to Brexit.

No-deal Brexit.

We live in a multiverse of differing

branches of history.

Brexit. Brexit. Brexit. Brexit.

My question is do you consider

your campaign to have acted

within accordance of British Law?

And, in a different branch of

history, I was never here,

some of you voted differently,

and this never happened.

But I was.

And it did.

Everyone knows who won.

But not everyone knows how.

Beethoven's Symphony No. 9

The battle of

the continents

becomes Europe's total w*r.

In Amsterdam, Churchill proclaimed

the need for a united Europe.

General De Gaulle said "Non" to

Britain joining the Common Market.

People can work without restriction

in any of the six countries.

The particular problem is

the price of food.

Our entry into the EEC will make

Europe the most powerful

trading block in the world.

We have our moment of opportunity.

A chance of new greatness.

Now we must take it.

A splendid and decisive yes

for Britain in Europe.

I don't know what I'm voting for.

I don't really see what good it's

going to do us.

We are asking for our own

money back.

We have not rolled back

the frontiers of the state only

to see them reimposed

at European level.

Suspending membership of the

exchange rate mechanism.

I will now form a majority

Conservative government.

Tomorrow, I will commence the

process to hold a referendum on

Britain's membership

of the European Union.

Sorry to mobilise you so quickly.

No, no, that's what

the WhatsApp group is for.

Avengers Assemble.

I don't really know what that is,

but, erm, the past few years,

a band of rebels has been

meeting here regularly,

away from, you know...

It's very, erm, Tinker, Tailor.

Well, it worked.

We roused enough of the rabble

to force Cameron's hand

on a referendum, should he win

the election.

Obviously, not expecting

to win outright.

Well, he has, so it's happening.

He'll be about to ask the biggest

question a nation has asked itself

in a generation, perhaps

all generations - in or out?

And we need a leader.

Not me.

Things are going to get

pretty nasty.

I can organise from the back,

I can't lead an army.

You need an att*ck dog for that.

I have an idea.

It is risky, though.

He's different.

And if you want to be a dog kebab,

keep barking!

Dom.

Hi. Hello.

Can we, erm... Can we have a chat?

Er, yeah.

Sure, why don't you come in.

Douglas Carswell.

Douglas. Hello, hello.

So...

..what have you been up

to, the past few...

..months? Two years,

chucked it all in.

Went to live on my dad's farm.

Did a little bit of work.

Meditated.

Wrote a lot. Read.

Thucydides, Kipling, Tolstoy.

Right...

So, Dom, what

we're looking for is...

Uh-uh. No way, I promised myself I'd

never set foot in Westminster again.

You can run this however you want.

Look, setting up a campaign

is like setting up

a multi-million pound start-up,

except you're warning investors

there's nothing to sell and no

profit to be made from it.

In other words, a f*cking nightmare.

Just leave those investors to me.

Because I can leave strategy

for the most part to you. No.

Dominic.

All your life you've been promised

people would listen to your ideas,

and time and time again,

the Establishment got scared.

They betrayed you.

Here's your chance to really change

things. Like never before.

It's OK.

You can take your time. Of course.

Except we don't have any.

We need to be first out the gate.

Before the pro-EU side you mean?

I'm talking about our own side.

You do you know who

Arron Banks is?

I know UKIP might give off

this blokey, jokey vibe.

But I'm afraid a lot

of their views are...

..well, nothing to laugh about.

If these right-wing thugs

try and run the out campaign,

they'll k*ll it. We need

a more respectable alternative.

No. No. No, Arron, you mad bugger.

You mad bugger!

How are you?

I'm knackered.

Sorry, Arron. I can't be

angry at you.

Come on, let's have a drink.

I don't know. Seven tries at winning

a seat, seven losses.

And, now, the party too.

Stitch up, arseholes, all of them.

I'd put my fist down their throat,

tear out their spine,

only they don't have one.

Stay. Lead.

I said I'd resign.

People come back from the dead

all time, look at Jesus.

He only came back twice,

it'd be my third.

But, you know, if...

If I were to, then...

I'm sorry to have to ask this,

Arron, but...

You want more money.

He's back! I knew it!

Now, look, this referendum, it's

going to be a Tory-led, Westminster

operation with us lot being edged

out. Me! And I've been

my whole bloody life

fighting for this

and I can't let that happen,

and I won't!

All right. All right.

All right, let's gate-crash.

Let's make a right bloody mess.

Hi! Victoria. Hi.

Good morning. Morning.

Douglas Carswell.

Victoria Woodcock.

Douglas, Matthew,

when shall we three meet again?

Speaking of...

Gunpowder, treason,

and plot.

We'll have the entire apparatus of

the British State against us.

They'll have the endorsement of all

the major political parties.

With their database of

40 million voters,

who they are, where they are.

Which we'll have no access to?

We'll have to start from scratch.

They get set the timetable,

frame the entire debate. I know.

I'll need total autonomy

on the overarching philosophy.

I did picture a more collaborative

process. Absolutely.

We'll, er,

we'll work out the details.

Let's get started.

How to change the course of

history, lesson one...

..k*ll conventional wisdom.

Napoleon. Otto von Bismarck.

Pay attention, Douglas.

Alexander the Great.

This is where we draw our wisdom

from, the true disrupters of Europe.

Socrates. Sun Tzu. Chairman Mao.

That's all very well,

first, we need to win designation.

Only one group gets to campaign as

the official In,

one as the official Out. Then we

test our messages with focus groups.

What do you think I've been doing?

I've already done it.

So what is it you don't like

about the European Union?

Is it the size of it? What is it

you don't like about the EU? What is

it you don't like? What about it?

The fact it's "over there"?

Do you know who your MEP is?

Do you know what an MEP does?

You didn't know you had an MEP?

You can't just go to a pub, Dom.

There's a science to it.

What about it? What about

immigration? Is it immigration?

Is it immigration? You can be

honest, is it immigration?

What about immigration? Is it race?

Is it different races not mixing?

Is it race? Not being integrated?

People are feeling angrier.

Left out. Ignored. What else?

Don't think our kids will have a

better future than us.

Children's legacy.

You think there should be a cap on

immigration? Is it the numbers?

Maybe it's the numbers?

You think it's too many too?

We spend more time than ever online,

but we feel more alone.

Ain't that the truth, Douglas?!

Er...

Is it the type of people they're

bringing over? Is it too many?

What's too many for you?

You don't believe the numbers?

You think they're not being

counted properly, you don't think

you can trust the figures?

We're not getting married as much?

Less of us have faith.

We're not saving as much.

We trust less the institutions and

people our parents trusted.

Except the NHS, which we love.

But think it's fundamentally f*cked.

Which countries don't you like

that have already joined?

That have joined already? Why not?

Why not? Why not?

And who don't you want to join next?

Who don't you want to join next?

Why, why don't you want...

Why? Why? Why not?

Why? Why don't you?

Turkey. Interesting.

So it was... America, '92 campaign,

that changed all campaigns.

First of the Four Fundamentals

to win this? Er...

No? Message...discipline.

Loss of national identity. Clear.

Sovereignty. Digestible.

Loss of community.

Simple. Independence.

Message repeated over, and over,

and over.

How did we get in to this?

What's our message?

What's our message?

What's our message?

What's our message?

What's our message? What's

our message? What's our message?

It can't just be a slogan.

We need to capture a feeling.

What's the feeling?

My father used to work on a rig.

Oil.

All those pockets of energy, hidden,

deep down in the earth, built up

over long periods of time.

Groaning, moaning...

..waiting for a release, an outlet.

All he had to do was find out where

they were and start digging down,

open up the well,

and let that pressure out.

We can tap into all these little

wells of resentment, all these

little pressures that have been

building up, ignored, over time.

We could make this

about something more than Europe.

Europe just becomes a symbol,

a cypher,

for everything. Every bad thing

that is happening has happened.

It's brilliant.

Take...control.

I like it. Simple, clear.

Empowering. Brilliant.

Let's get it out there.

Maybe. I dunno. Maybe.

We should start sounding it out

with our growing band of MPs.

Why? Well, their experience in this

is invaluable.

We don't need them,

we're going to be making decisions

based on science and data.

No matter how counter-intuitive

to traditional political thinking.

No advertisers, no snake oil

salesmen, or f*cking Saatchis.

We're gonna follow algorithmic,

statistical analysis.

We don't need to put up with any

prima donna MPs. Understood?

Sure. Sounds good. We need to make

sure they're on side.

They are the face of politics

and don't we want as broad a

coalition as possible?

Also, Dom, I have invited

a couple of them onto the board.

A board? Ugh, I'll say.

BOARD to death.

A boring board game of players who

should not be allowed to pass Go.

These so-called political rebels,

who,

for 20 years of failing the

Euro-sceptic cause, are still

going to sit here and lecture me on

how best to win this w*r, you watch.

We wanted to share with you

some of our experience

of spearheading this movement, long

before...

..well, before you came along.

That'd be great. We'd, er, love to

hear your ideas for the ground w*r.

Well, I'm more concerned with

the air w*r, actually. Digital.

Social media. You mean

the Facebook and things.

Yep. I-I can see you're into

all this new-fangled tech stuff,

Dominic, and I'm sure

that has a place,

but the first step must be reaching

voters direct.

Old school, doorstep,

stalls in market squares, posters.

Posters? And for that,

you need the MPs.

As many on our side,

as opposed to theirs.

They have the local knowledge.

Our focus will be on building

a digital system that will

provide us with the empirical

evidence we need

to understand who our voters are and

what they want to hear.

I knew it, I warned you.

I think what Dom means is...

Some of us have been waiting a

lifetime to get to this point.

Not to have it ruined by some...

..some geeky anarchist who

wants to show off.

I just want to get us over the line,

something that MPs have failed to do

since this movement begun

over 40 years ago.

Excuse me. With respect,

this referendum is

a really dumb idea.

What?! I think

what we're emphasising is...

Referendums are quite literally

the worst way to decide anything.

Dom. They're divisive, they pretend

that complex choices

are simple binaries, red or blue,

black or white,

and we know there are more nuanced

and sophisticated ways out there,

to make political change and reform,

not that we live in a nuanced,

or political age, do we?

Political discourse has become

utterly moronic,

thanks to the morons who run it.

Really. But there it is.

If that is the way it is to be,

then I will get us across the line,

in whatever way I can,

but in order to do that,

we have to restack the odds

in our favour.

We have to hack

the political system. Hack it?

Like a cyber hack.

Get in through the back door,

reprogram the system

so it starts working for us.

You're talking about posters

and flyers,

I'm talking about altering

the matrix of politics.

Dominic, for the love of God,

you need to learn to be a little

more patient... I won't suffer

fools, therefore I won't suffer

90% of politicians.

Frankly, I don't see the point in

them, and... What the f*ck?

Dominic, I'm so sorry, they just,

like, barged their way in.

I'll leave you to it.

So, chaps, why the bloody hell

aren't we working together?

Hm? Your campaign, our campaign,

as one. Unstoppable.

I've got call centres.

I've got money - nine million quid

I've donated - before

the spending ceiling kicks in,

which I think is the largest

donation

in British political history.

Is that right, Nige?

Yeah, that's right, Arron.

And what have you got?

Ah, experience.

Expertise. Contacts in Parliament,

of course, the MPs.

MPs are useless, f*ck the MPs.

Everything you've been briefing on

so far,

not one mention of immigration.

That's on purpose,

we don't want to bring...

Oh, don't come over all bleeding

bloody hearts, it's bollocks.

You know, you turn up

for five minutes and you think you

know the lot. Well, I have been

fighting with this my whole life.

And I know what lands.

People already know what they think

about immigration, the people

we're trying to win over, the people

we need to win, extend beyond UKIP.

Oh. So you don't want to make the

bien pensants sitting around

your London dinner table

uncomfortable? We don't need 'em,

we need normal people.

We need 50% of the entire country,

plus one.

Second fundamental of running

a successful campaign - build a

broad coalition of voters. And for

that you need to be respectable.

No offence. 'Scuse me. Let me tell

you who we're up against,

who's setting themselves up,

over the river, to destroy us.

Lucy Thomas, ex-producer

of BBC's Newsnight programme.

So she'll know how to handle

the press.

Director of the campaign -

Will Straw, son of Jack,

failed his MP race in 2015.

Typical establishment thinking -

if it didn't work first time,

try it again. Ryan Coetzee, Director

of Strategy,

he's Nick Clegg's former

special adviser.

Labour and Lib Dem hate each other

post-coalition. That won't work.

Oh, yeah, no, it's a proper

left and centre-left love-in.

You've got the Greens, and the

Welsh, but not as interesting

as these, the one true enemy

they both share. Tories.

The Number Ten machine. Headed up

by - trumpets please...

Craig Oliver.

Cameron's communication director?

Position held, as we know,

by a long succession of bastards.

Campbell. Coulson. This one's more

out-of-the-limelight,

ostensibly in control, composed,

he's furiously loyal to his boss.

I can tell you that we, er,

well, we have a little history.

Dominic Cummings is

basically mental.

We had to all but ban him

from Number Ten.

He's desperate to be seen as this

visionary architect

of a new world order,

but actually he's just an egotist

with a wrecking ball.

It does, however, mean that he's...

Well, he's, unpredictable.

I know how to b*at Oliver.

Conventional wisdom is a disease

that the British are peculiarly

susceptible to, and he certainly

hasn't been inoculated.

I want to be upfront.

The PM isn't entirely sure why

all this shouldn't be run by and

out of Number Ten, so...

I'm sure you don't mean to imply

that you're here to give us

the once-over, check us out.

No, that's exactly what I meant.

Andrew Cooper, our chief pollster.

Hello. Our lead strategist

on the Scottish Independence ref,

which we won. Just. Which we won,

despite those final polls,

and the general election,

which we also won - ditto.

So take comfort

in that we do actually know

how to win things which,

present company,

politely and respectfully...

Look,

we know there are historic divides

between us all.

But without getting all Hollywood

about coming together for the

greater good, that is basically

what we're going to have to do.

I'm not saying let's all have

a circle jerk. Circle what?

Jesus. But this is about as serious

as it gets.

There's the danger which we saw

in Scotland of having unleashed

something

which we can't then control.

An establishment enemy needs

a people's army to thrash them!

You need Nigel, he should front the

TV debates, do the rallies.

We will be guided by data

and polling, Nigel may be

an asset, maybe not, we'll see.

Nothing personal.

Ah, f*ck this.

He's a f*cking waste of space.

Christ.

That's a lot of money

walking out of the door.

That is a mathematical paradox

walking out of the door.

Every time that Nigel Farage's

popularity increases nationwide,

the support for Brexit

decreases nationwide.

Puts everyone else off. So, no!

But they'll be out there anyway,

gobbing off.

Wouldn't it be better to have them

pissing out of the tent

rather than pissing in? If we can

control their rhetoric, on...

Oh, unless we get them to do the

heavy lifting

on the migration stuff, and then

we can keep our hands clean?

That is a dangerous game, Dom.

They're going to do what they're

going to do, we'll do what we do.

Parky, where are we at?

How do?

I wasn't aware

you were a member.

I just joined. What are the odds?

Would you like any assistance

with your hair or just general...?

No, no, I'm fine, thanks. I mean,

unless you can help it grow back.

Why do you think your lot will get

the designation over Farage?

He's the face of the anti-EU cause.

Yeah, but their arguments will only

reach a narrow base. Whereas, ours,

we hope, will reach everyone.

How are you getting on, your side?

We shouldn't be talking...

Don't be a d*ck, John,

why the hell are there two competing

Out teams, both fighting

for the same donors, MPs?

It makes no bloody sense.

We should join together.

Cummings would never allow that.

Why not?

He hates you.

What are your expectations,

realistically?

Well, ideally it would be to create

the biggest political upset

the world's seen

since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

So what does your campaign

look like?

I'd like to think it looks like

an insurgence

against the establishment.

You're not looking to be more

collegiate, respectful, than that?

Why? It's a f*cking w*r. Total w*r.

In total w*r, there's only one side

left standing. You'd be fine about

bringing down the Prime Minister?

He deserves to be brought down,

the Prime Minister's crap.

Are you reading this? I don't mind

him having the odd bit of publicity,

but hell's f*cking bells,

he att*cked the PM!

Does he not know there are things

you do not do?

Does he always have to be so...

you know -

himself?!

Hello. Matthew? It's Dan.

We need to talk about Dom.

Dominic?

Zack Massingham, Aggregate IQ.

Was pleased to get your message.

We've been trying to get in touch

with you, actually. Really?

You were surprisingly hard to find

online,

for an online analytics company.

Not really in the business

of advertising what we do.

Which is what? Just so that I am

absolutely sure it's what I need.

Technically, we use sophisticated

algorithms to micro-target

populations in political campaigns.

The other side has a voter database

that I don't have access to, and

I need to build my own, find voters,

and target them with our ads.

We're becoming a little more

sophisticated than that now.

Arron, this is Robert Mercer,

an old family friend,

and an investor in, well,

all of this.

Nigel, good to see you again.

London was always going to be a key

front in our cultural w*r

against the political class.

It feels like something's coming,

doesn't it? f*ck, I hope so.

I should introduce you to Steve.

Steve Bannon, chairman of Breitbart.

He's also on the board of one of my

other little projects.

A data-mining company,

election specialists, combined.

It's new.

Just been working on

Ted Cruz's campaign.

When we began

he was only polling 3%.

We got him up into the forties.

An unprecedented leap.

Simply through

behavioural micro-targeting,

finding where the voters

you can convert are,

and knowing the messages

that will convert them.

Silicon Valley, eh?

It's my kind of people. The Brits.

Cambridge Analytica.

And beyond. He went to a refugee

camp in the Lebanon

and he said you must understand

that 2% of these people

are Jihadi activists.

Now, that's the truth.

Money is one thing, Mr Banks,

but data is power.

You see, this is all just beginning.

Technology has moved beyond "you

like this, so you might like that".

Internet algorithms learn about our

behaviour, our psychology even,

our emotional state.

These social media platforms know

what questions we're asking,

what keeps us awake at night,

when we sleep, where we go,

who we go there with, and therefore

the system can make predictions.

And does.

Embarrassingly accurate ones.

Such as?

OK, so, like, Facebook knows

when you're falling out of love

with your partner.

Yeah. It didn't mean to discover it,

wasn't its intention,

but two billion people constantly

inputting into the database a

dozen times a day? Patterns form.

Behaviours overlap.

So, what, it just targets,

or micro-targets, your message?

That's all?

Mmmm, not just all.

What it means is that we can design

and distribute thousands of

different adverts that vary,

depending on

who we're sending them to.

So, your timeline will be slightly

different to your friend's,

your mum's, and so on. And our

software can test how effective

certain ads are on certain people,

in terms of liking, clicking,

sharing, and then learn how to

adapt them, to improve them,

in real time.

In real time?

Mm-hm.

What's in it for you? Truthfully?

Our problem is that we haven't found

a large enough test case yet

to understand

this technology's effectiveness.

A decent sample size. So we're

just a trial, is that all?

What, British democracy is a lab

experiment for a greater prize?

Blanket advertising is dead.

We're updating and uploading

all the time, by choice,

teaching data companies

and advertisers exactly who we are

and what we want.

Data that leads political parties

to individual voters, with a message

that is algorithmically tailored

towards them.

Look, it was Obama who led the way

on this.

A liberal. It's not about

right versus left,

it's about old versus new.

This is the new politics, Dom.

This is how you will win.

It was entirely made of rubber.

Oh, hello. Come in. How, are you?

How nice to see you.

John. Come and sit over there.

Thank you. Tea?

Oh, yes, please. Milk? Sugar?

Er, a spot of milk.

It's not just his me-me-me-ness,

Matthew,

fact is,

his personality alienates people.

David Cameron called him

a career sociopath.

Do you know, when he visits

various Whitehall departments,

he signs in as O*ama b*n L*den,

just for the sheer...!

I don't know...he's just...

He's so, he's so.... Inappropriate.

Annoying.

Yes, he is, he is - annoying.

Do you know, Andy Coulson, the bloke

in jail for phone hacking,

he thought Cummings was too toxic

to win broad support!

Andy Coulson! Yeah, I-I-I know

Dom can be, uh, unconventional,

but there's no-one better

to rally the troops.

You, Matthew.

It has to be you.

You're only talking about locating

people that the other side

already have on the government

database. You're thinking

way too small. No-one's ever accused

me of that before.

What about those who are off

the grid, who don't vote?

Social media platforms are designed

to find like-minded people

better than people can. Our system

will locate and target people

that no campaign

has ever targeted before -

people who don't

and have never voted.

Anti-establishment, angry.

Your people. Dominic, we have

already started to find them.

Three million extra votes.

f*ck off. All of them yours. That

the other side have no idea exist.

Where's Matt?

Hello? Cummings? Yes?

It's John Mills.

Wonder if you might come over.

The board would like a word.

Would you take a seat, Dom?

Very busy, what is it?

Dom, I'm afraid we, on the board,

have lost confidence in you.

You've pissed off just about

every MP that's been trying,

desperately, to support us,

rather than that other Ukippy lot.

And you, you seem to flout about TV

and the front pages of magazines

whipping up controversy, and so...

Thank you, Bernard.

Look, what I think we can all

agree on is that the infighting

has to stop. And if that means

changes to the structure

of the campaign, well, then...

Basically, we'd like to offer you

a lot of money just to quietly

step to one side.

Stay on as a consultant, and let

others take more of a lead.

And Matthew? This is the decision

of the board.

They're scared.

This is rushed. Poorly planned.

What do you think will happen to my

senior staff over the river?

What do you mean? They'll walk.

Well, it's your patriotic duty to

tell them not to, Dom.

They'll do what they want to

do, Dan.

Because they are intelligent people.

Unlike you and Matthew,

they know how to run a campaign.

You'll lose your campaign machine,

and you'll lose your designation.

Well, what do you suggest

we do about that?

You don't know what you're

doing, do you, any of you?

This is embarrassing.

You've committed the classic

cardinal sin of any failed coup,

you didn't secure the support

of your m*llitary first,

and you didn't seize the state

broadcaster. What are you doing?

In about 30 seconds, you're

going to start receiving

notifications on the WhatsApp group,

staff resigning.

Ah, no, no, wait, wait a minute,

Dom. Hell's f*cking bells!

This is a private meeting,

you can't just... Just did.

Look, can we all just stay calm,

and not... I'm calm.

It's not just your attitude,

it's the strategy

you're putting together.

Where's immigration,

where's the bloated bureaucracy,

the supranational institutions of...

Too nebulous, too complicated,

too remote.

This campaign is going to be about

cost and control. That's it.

We know whereof we speak, Dom.

No, you don't. No, you don't.

You're wrong, wrong, wrong,

wrong, wrong! How much it costs!

And regaining control!

Cost and control!

Cost and control, get it?

You see - this is what we

have to deal with.

And, while I'm at it,

when we gain the designation,

and the 7 million spending limit,

I would like to spend 3.9 million

of that online.

You're...you're treating this like

it's a game, Dom,

your private plaything. We have

this contract for you to sign,

just look it over and... No.

But there's... We have lawyers,

waiting next door.

Not lawyers?! Oh, f*ck!

If you don't like they way I'm

running the campaign, you can leave.

Us? No, this is about YOU leaving.

Well, I'm not, so you can go.

I think, perhaps, a compromise.

Dom, you don't like dealing with

MPs, they clearly don't like you.

I'm happy to do that from now on.

And if we can just be a little

more discreet, with our tweetings

and our utterances, I think...

..I think that could help. That

would...that would be a help, yes.

And if you would be willing to share

the strategy side with us, Dom...

No, I have complete

independence or nothing.

Well, then, you can't be

on the board,

because the board will need to

hold you to account.

Fine, then I think we need

a new Chair...

..if things are changing on

the board. A fresh start.

So, is he gone? He didn't go.

Stop it. I did.

f*ck off! What? How?!

I'm not sure.

Continue. Continue!

Hiya.

Why don't people like me?

I like you.

Come here.

Well, at least they will

remember you.

That's something.

He's kicking.

Like his dad.

That was corny.

A very good evening to you,

and welcome to BBC News.

Vote Leave and Britain Stronger

in Europe have been designated

the official Leave and Remain

campaigns in the EU Referendum.

..three, two, one!

And we're off!

The ten-week count down to

the Referendum

has begun in earnest with the

designation of the two campaigns.

Stronger In, backed by the

Prime Minister, Jeremy Corbyn,

and almost all mainstream parties.

On the Leave side, Vote Leave,

which contains six cabinet

ministers, and 140 Conservative

parliamentarians.

Vote Leave everyone, Vote Leave!

What were your thoughts when

these decisions where announced?

Well, Huw, there have been

real divisions...

f*ck them!

..those who are campaigning

for the UK to leave Europe.

Now we're free from any constraints,

we can do what we like.

It's more fun being outsiders.

Turn it off.

We also know that the other side

are going to run a campaign

the way campaigns have been run

for pretty much the last 70 years.

They're going to fight from

the centre, make it about jobs

and the economy.

We focus on the economy and jobs.

The message - leaving risks both.

Clinton, '92, best campaign ever.

"It's the economy, stupid."

You define your opponent

as the riskier option.

And, though the change candidate

might initially poll well, come

election day, the nerves kick in,

voters revert back to the centre.

Law of political science,

if the status quo are ahead before

the campaign begins, which we are,

they always win on the day. So...

So, what's our answer?

Tzu's The Art of w*r.

If we fight them on home terrain,

they will win.

So, what we need to do is lead them

to the ninth b*ttlefield,

the deadly ground, where no-one

expects to find themselves.

Outcome? They perish. Which means?

You reverse the proposition.

We make them the risky option.

To stay is to risk losing more of

the things we cherish.

We're asking voters not to reject

the status quo, but to return to it.

To independence.

How much does it cost us,

each week, to be members of the EU?

In the regions of about...

What's our researcher's name?

Richard. Ricardo!

Will you get me all the figures of

how much it costs to be

members of the EU for a week!

Largest one wins.

Make sure it's verifiable!

Focus groups.

Finding out who we are,

and what are we like,

so we can segment and target.

First, the easiest, we have

the Ardent Internationalists.

11% of the voting population.

Support gay marriage,

degree educated. Going to vote to

stay, no matter what.

Then the other end,

the EU Hostiles.

Similarly 11%. Generally retired,

mortgage-free.

And 98% white. Won't change either.

And then we have our

Comfortable Europhiles,

own their own home,

get their news from the BBC.

Most probably remain.

And our Strong Sceptic.

C2DEs, generally 55 plus,

O-levels and no higher,

most probably Leave. It's not rocket

science, it's simple.

There are three types of voter.

Those certain to vote to exit

that's one third,

they're in the bag, so, ignore them.

Those certain to stay,

that's another third,

we can't touch them, so f*ck 'em.

The last third "I would like to

leave, but I'm worried about

"what the effect will be to jobs

and living standards."

These are the only people that we

need to care about.

And, trust me, the others will be

after the same bunch.

Now these are who will

decide the result.

The Hearts versus Heads,

and the Disengaged Middle.

34% of the electorate. Hearts Verses

heads are mainly female.

Sandra Butcher. Oh, hi, Sandra.

Get their news from Mail Online.

Their heart says Leave,

but their head is worried.

"Disengaged Middles"

are generally renters,

get their news from Facebook.

Most have never given

any thought to the EU whatsoever.

Erm, who is "very likely"

to vote in the upcoming referendum,

show of hands?

OK, good. Erm, Shamara,

are you likely, unlikely,

very unlikely, or don't know?

I'd say likely but I just need to

get my head round.

Don't know, for me.

If someone can convince me

either way, then probably, but...

So, what do you think of

when you think of the EU?

What does it do?

They make laws. For each country.

Laws over there that overturn

laws over here.

Only they're not accountable.

Well, you do, you do vote for them.

MEPs. I don't.

Well... It's, it's the courts,

it...it...isn't it?

Erm, they have the Human Rights.

Which, I'm sorry, but things like

the t*rrorists you can't deport.

Which, well... That's freedom of

movement, isn't it?

Goods and people? That's what

the old community was for, right?

Erm, no tariffs, free trade...

Old community was coal and steel.

That's all it was meant to be.

But now it's got too big.

Yeah, not people, I mean not

unlimited people,

that's not what the meant,

when they... It's for peace though,

isn't it? After the w*r.

To make sure nothing like that,

happens again.

Which is, I think, probably good?

You know just to be, you know,

I mean I'm not saying

it's wrong, people coming,

different people, it's...it's just

if we had, er, like a point system.

No, no, no. Like Australia.

That undermines the whole thing.

I'd be fine with that.

And we go there as well.

So, what's the issue

that matters most, then,

when you're making your decision?

Is it what's best for the economy?

Or is it control over immigration?

Economy. Every time.

Immigration is not an issue.

I'd like to be able to study abroad.

We need to appeal to their heads,

numbers, projections.

We focus on the facts.

We need to appeal to their hearts.

Emotional resonance. Their hopes.

Their dreams. Their aspirations.

Their fears. Their suspicions.

Now these Persuadables,

we need to learn about them, love

them, and lure them onto our side.

There are more of them out there

than we thought.

Three million more of them out

there than we thought.

That's three million potential

voters not on any voter database

so Remain have no idea they exist.

If we can reach them,

they're ours for the taking.

Dom, what on Earth are you

talking about?

I want less than ten people on Earth

to know what I'm about to tell you.

We're going to build something.

By the way, if anyone asks, just

tell them you're a junior intern.

Look, I'm serious,

nothing more than that.

I'm in my 30s. But you've got your

youthful, Californian complexion.

Canadian. Let me know

if you need anything.

What do you think of it?

No, not right, send it back.

What? Dom, we've

printed thousands off.

It's not ready, burn 'em!

Hello, sorry, Mr Gove, sir,

it's Dom here.

I know you're tearing

yourself up inside,

but I really need your answer.

Can you call me back?

Leave.EU is the real

grass roots party, OK?

Everyone should join us

if we're going to win. Exactly.

We're the original and

still the best.

Ultimately, look, I have a simple

view on this,

just like I have a

simple view on everything in life.

If you want to leave the EU,

you're on our side.

Even if you think you are

on theirs.

On the Remain side you mean.

No, I mean Leave.

The other Leave.

To take something back means

it was, is, rightfully yours,

taken from you.

So much of our understanding

of who we are,

comes from this nostalgic view

we have of our past.

These stories,

these myths we tell each other.

Normally, I hate them,

they stop me from progressing,

but, in this case, let's use it.

The idea that we want to return to

a time when we knew our place.

When things made sense,

fictional or not.

It's perfect.

Better start taking it back.

Michael?

David and Samantha Cameron are

your close friends,

does this not feel a bit like

stabbing your leader "in the front"?

Um...

..it, well, you know, um...

The fact is, if you must know,

I've been wrestling with this

for weeks.

This was the most difficult decision

of my political life.

But taking difficult decisions is

what politicians are here to do.

Yes, yes, yes, exactly, it's...

..it's, it's easy to shirk them -

to not upset the applecart.

It's a perfectly legitimate way of

playing devil's advocate with...

Who are all this lot?

Matthew's idea.

Different outreach groups,

operating independently.

Who's funding them then?

Who's coordinating them?

I think they're meant to

co-ordinate themselves.

I don't know, rules sketchy.

But the versions of your column,

Boris,

including the one you wrote in

support of Remain?

Oh, look now, it's as if none of

you have ever

written a pros and a cons

list before...

You know, people do that

when they're about to do something

important, like maybe,

adopt a puppy or something.

Thank you, thank you, I think that's

probably all we've got time for.

Well done, well done.

Good line about the puppies.

Yes, well, it's done now

so c'est la vie. Well done.

David said...he said that if I get

what I want, and we win this,

it will destroy him.

He's probably right.

This is a game changer,

so thank you.

All right, team. Listen up!

Now the fight for Britain really

does begin.

We have our star endorsements.

And...and we have our message.

If you look on the server,

you'll find copies of the w*r Book!

Here's our message in a sheet.

Here's our message in a paragraph.

Here's our message in a sentence.

If you find a potential voter,

you hit them hard.

If it looks like they're going to

bend, then you don't just

walk away, pat yourself on the

back, you double down.

Hit them again.

And again, right,

with 350 million and Turkey!

350 million quid and Turkey.

Again!

350 million quid and Turkey!

Again!

350 million and Turkey!

Again and again. Show no mercy!

All right?

Good.

Get out there and do that!

Take back control.

Ta-da!

Wait, wait, wait, wait,

that's the...

We're using the NHS,

with the economy, with control.

But...but the logo.

That's the actual NHS logo? I know.

Are we...are we allowed to just...?

Imagine their faces!

I mean, if Jeremy Hunt wants to

come down and try and peel the

label off himself,

he's more than welcome,

we'll have the cameras ready.

Let's take back control!

Let's take back control!

Terrific!

It's marvellous.

It's got air conditioning

and everything.

Three?

Million, yes. Completely off

the map.

Rendering their current poll

projections pointless.

Holy Moley! So you're saying

there's a cat in Lucifer's chance

we might actually win this thing,

are you?

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Well, we need to brief this,

get it out there.

A great big psychological boost

to all those guys.

No, no, no briefing. All right?

A polling lead for Remain make

them complacent,

means less voters turn out,

we keep it hush hush.

You really don't have to

raise your hand.

Oh, sorry, I just wanted to ask

who they were.

Data scientists.

I'm a data scientist.

They're technically physicists.

Blimey. Where are they from?

Prior to this they were working

analysts on the Hadron Collider.

And now you're here to tell us what

housewives in Newport think, bravo.

All right. Fanfare, please!

For the first time

in a British election,

we've built some software that will

combine your Facebook and

your Twitter with the electoral roll

and polling, and canvassing,

all in one database that can be

updated and respond in real time.

Fabulous! Really?

I have no idea.

Here are some if the ads we've been

developing that are ready to test.

Look at this one.

For the Euro Championship.

Football. Not politics! Football!

It's brilliant.

A chance to win 50 million quid

if you guess the result to

every single game.

The odds to winning are

six trillion,

the point is that we can collect

hundreds of thousands of contact

details to get people out to vote.

It's like 20 questions.

With every click we know you better

so our ads can target you better.

And this one?

I thought we weren't

pushing immigration.

The software will tell us what to

push or what not to push, Michael.

To win, OK?

Right.

Ready to launch?

Yeah.

What I will say is, er, it's

obviously very important

we don't get mired,

er, in personal politics.

Let us confirm that tomorrow

we we're going strong on

manufacturing, PM is in Derbyshire,

meeting in the Toyota factory.

Hi, you have David Cameron

on the line.

Hi, it's Iain Duncan-Smith.

I'm calling on behalf

of the Vote Leave campaign.

All aboard for Britain

remaining in the European Union.

This should be an amicable contest

that's characterised by

mutual respect.

One that rises above

personal att*cks,

and stays true to that Great British

tradition of fair play.

Nothing can dilute our enthusiasm.

Hello, madam, vote Leave.

Hi there. EU referendum.

So let's raise the level of debate

and have a fair fight.

Um, yep!

So don't get mad,

but just as an experiment,

I set up a fake Youth Labour group

to campaign for Remain.

They're including us

on their e-mail list.

You are kidding me.

Not only that - Craig Oliver does

a conference call to volunteer

groups a couple of times a week.

And we have the dial-in code.

So, what do you reckon?

Dom did say "double down".

Please enter the conference pin.

The next thing is a heads-up

on the press release.

This is under embargo until

tomorrow.

It's announcing an emergency budget

should we leave.

So this is where you...

where you hide, is it?

Do you mind if I pop in

for a moment?

Gosh. The software's coming back

with new voters.

Thousands of them.

We should get out there and test it.

Dom, I...

..think we should clear the air

about what happened with the board.

Let's go.

But...

Ah, well, I don't know this place.

Well, it's in your constituency,

Douglas,

you just ignored it for years.

Thank you.

But what if...what if they...

My face is quite recognisable -

maybe I should...

Look, either you believe in this

or you don't. If you don't,

get back in the f*cking cab.

Hello.

All right?

What's he done now?!

I don't understand, how did you find

us? No-one knocks on that door.

You're telling me that

no other political parties have

knocked on your door during

this...referendum?

I'm saying no-one from a political

party has knocked on that

door since about the eighties.

Could we persuade you to register

today, do you think?

You can try.

Honestly, though, I don't trust

any of you.

You look familiar, though.

Well, the first thing we think

leaving the EU will help is jobs.

Haven't got a job.

Never will again round here.

24 years as a steel worker,

all gone to sh*t.

How you gonna fix that? Well,

that...that is one of the industries

that's been most

affected by EU overregulation.

All of that red tape

and cheap foreign labour

that's undercutting your wages.

Oh, yeah, I know.

Huh! They work for nothing.

People like me, we get, like...

We get squeezed out.

Yeah. We get squeezed out.

It's not that I'm against them. No!

But it has changed a lot

round here, hasn't it?

All our neighbours have moved away

and new people come in.

My kids have moved away too now,

cos there's nothing here,

and I miss it.

I miss having...having...

Oh, you're getting me all upset now.

Sorry, we don't mean to pry.

You want to feel back in control

of your life.

Or the lives of the people you love.

Perhaps we could leave you

with this.

Erm, now, remember it's not...

..it's not a parliamentary election

it's a referendum...

..where every

vote counts.

And with your polling station being

just around the corner...

The noise.

It's getting louder.

Much louder.

What does it mean?

What's it trying to tell us?

You are on the front page

of The Observer this morning.

A warning that a million people

may come here from Turkey

in the next eight years,

which is strange because very few

people expect Turkey to join

the EU in the next eight years.

We... I do not think that the EU

is going to, er, keep Turkey out.

I think it is going to join.

I think the migrant crisis...

What I'm asking of the world's

oldest public broadcaster

is an understanding of the

difference between

impartiality and balance.

What I mean is that your nonsense

bloody quota of giving

equal coverage, no matter what,

means that we put up a

Nobel Prize-winning economist to

highlight the negative impact on

sterling if we leave, and then you

feel you have to give equal weight

to some batty backbencher

who's just there to parrot,

"Not true! "Project Fear!

Take back control!"

Yes, well, it f*cking better do!

I look forward to it!

It's going to be OK, they've found

a momentum, but we'll counter.

We just have to stop falling

into their trap.

They say something utterly

ludicrous, like, "Turkey will join,

"we can't stop them."

Then we drop what we're doing

to counter with the truth, when

what we're actually doing is just

helping them by spending the rest

of the day saying, "Turkey,

Turkey, Turkey" on the radio!

It's grenade after grenade!

They lob one over here. Bang!

We go over to put out the fire,

they lob one over there -

bang, over we go!

It's guerrilla warfare!

They can say literally anything

they want with zero consequences

because they're not the Government,

whereas we take a bloody millennia

to sign off a sodding Twitter meme!

It's kind of genius, in a way.

You know what?

I'm beginning to lose patience

with this common misconception

that Dominic Cummings'

pseudo-intellectual bullshit

is anything other

than pseudo-intellectual bullshit!

Anyone can start a fire.

He's not the Messiah.

He's a very naughty...

..f*cking arsehole!

And as this is a bank holiday,

we'll be talking about whether

hedgehogs could derail

the Government's plans for HS2.

BBC News is read by Zeb Soanes.

Ministers have begun moves

to change tipping practices

in bars and restaurants. Waiters...

Why aren't we getting any pushback

from this?

Why aren't journalists hounding us

about it?

The metropolitan commentariat

are not our targets,

so they're not seeing our posts

on their timeline,

so they have no idea what the rest

of the country is seeing.

So no-one's reporting it.

Feels dangerous, doesn't it?

Girls, this is the last time!

TV off, come and eat!

I've made you some lovely supper.

OK, now, remember that Daddy

has to speak very, very quickly

to the Prime Minister,

so you and your friends are

going to eat really, really quietly

and be good, right?

I don't like this! Right?

Prime Minister is on.

Hi, DC. Hi, it's Dave!

How is everyone?

Hi, David. This is Thomas.

Hi, Andrew Cooper here.

Who just joined?

It's Peter Mandelson.

Sorry I'm late.

I kept typing the pin thing in,

but it wouldn't bloody...

Yuck! I don't like ketchup.

Hello, Peter!

Isn't this a strange

little get-together?

You can say that again!

So, I think we can all admit

that we have a problem. Yep?

Andrew?

On the question of economy, jobs,

and safety, voter association,

it seems to be moving steadily

in the direction of...of Leave.

I thought WE were hard on the

economy and THEY were immigration!

I know, I can't...

What are the polls telling us?

It's all over the place. It's like

there's a gremlin in the machine,

but they seem to be cutting through

to the undecideds.

The Labour MPs I have coming back

from doorsteps are spooked.

Our lines on jobs, the economy -

voters don't want to hear it.

Warnings of an economic shock

don't work in areas

that are already deprived.

The numbers have been telling us...

Andrew, the numbers are wrong.

Daddy, can I have the juice?

Something is going wrong here.

Well, is it, perhaps,

because 47% of Labour voters

don't know which side their

party actually bloody supports?

Now, we clear the grid on a daily

basis for Corbyn and he backs out

time and again,

and when he does speak, he sounds...

What do you want me to say?

Jeremy voted to leave in '75,

and he hasn't changed his mind

on anything for 40 years!

If we're blaming each other's

parties, Johnson and Gove

continually making personal att*cks

against you lot,

their own Government,

and you're not attacking back!

Internal Tory spats

distract from the message.

Anyway, we do actually need a

Conservative Party after the vote.

Well, you'll forgive me if my main

concern right now isn't the

Tory Party after the sodding vote -

it's the state of the whole county

now, and you're making us fight them

with one arm tied behind our back.

If I can also say, if the economic

issue isn't cutting through,

then we have to have a response,

a positive argument on immigration.

That's them leading us

onto their turf, it's a trap.

We can't ignore it any more!

This is...serious.

All right.

Nothing to lose, I suppose,

apart from the European Alliance

and even the United Kingdom itself!

Too soon?

Hello, everybody!

Really good to see you.

So good to see you!

Thank you for coming out.

I think we are better off in.

I think we're stronger in.

I think we're safer in.

Better off. Safer. Stronger.

Let's take back control!

Take back control. Take back

control. Take back control.

We take back control of

our money, our laws

and, of course, our borders.

Who thinks we should remain?

The IMF, the World Bank,

the Bank of England.

The real risk to Britain's economy.

A b*mb under our economy.

The people of this country

have had enough of experts.

It's just scaremongering!

Project Fear.

It's scaremongering. Project Fear.

This Government sponsored a fiction,

claiming that Brexit

will cost us 4,300.

I mean, does Project Fear know

no bounds?

Don't throw away your

children's future.

The EU has made a fundamental

mistake,

which is affecting the security

of all of us.

They swept across the Continent.

Say it loud, say it clear!

Refugees are welcome here!

The Leave campaign is now trying

to stir up prejudice.

You might as well just hang up

a sign that says,

"t*rrorists Welcome"!

It's been Project Hate,

as far as immigration's concerned.

They're not refugees,

they're economic migrants,

and there's a difference. Leaving

Europe would be bad for the NHS.

70 million Turks.

Unprincipled fiction!

They lied about the cost of Europe.

They lied about Turkey's entrance

to Europe.

Why on Earth did you risk this?

Because they're British!

Our daughter couldn't get

into her school!

Let me finish, Christine.

You don't know exactly...

Let me make my point.

..what's going to happen, you don't

know the exact figures! How are we

going to pay for the National Health

Service? You are not paying

for it now! The Mayor's just got in

and said

there's no money to build these

50,000 homes

that he said he was going

to build!

Thank you. Thank you. Gosh,

I feel like a bloody rock star!

I can't believe how whipped up

everyone is! I knew you were

one of the good ones off the telly!

You know, saying what the people

really think. Thank you, thanks.

70 million Turks coming over here! I

mean, it's just... It's frightening.

Well, yes, we don't actually know

how many, or when, or...

It says... It says in your flyer,

look. Look.

Yes, well, that is, er...

..just the actual population of,

er, Turkey.

We should probably go, Boris, sorry.

There we are. Yay!

Take back control!

# Here we go, here we go

Here we go!

# Here we go, here we go! #

Yeah, yeah, but come on, come on!

Hospitals would totally collapse

without migrant workers.

Then, give those jobs

to British workers!

Oh, come on! Tell them that

unemployment for British-born

is dropping. Say that.

But the argument that migrants

bring in more in taxes than they

take out in services?

Yes, good, now follow up.

But how much of their wages are they

sending home, out the country?

She's just said,

they pay more in taxes.

They've got kids! As long as they

pay! Any more thoughts on that?

That's it, I'm going in.

Wait! No, that breaks the whole...

She's not testing our argument!

OK, that... Yeah, yeah.

Sorry. Sorry to interrupt.

Sorry, who are you?

The hard facts, right?

The Treasury receives a net benefit

of 20 billion

a year from EU workers paying

into the system... Says who?

..growing the economy. That's after

using public services, so they are

paying for more care, more teachers,

more... That's not a good thing?

Yes, no-one's saying

that's not the truth. Sorry!

How much are WE paying

to be over there? Yeah?

350 million! A week!

OK, so have none of you heard

our messages on...?

That 350 million is a lie!

You would say that!

No, it does not exist,

it has never existed!

A cheque for that amount

has never been signed!

We will not get it if we leave!

Project Fear!

What will happen is that our...

Project Fear! Listen to the man!

..our currency will collapse,

and the economy will contract.

How do you know that? You lot get

things wrong all the time.

I don't know why we pay anything.

To be a member of the single largest

trading bloc in the entire world!

But what benefit am I seeing

from that where I'M from?

I'd rather it go on the NHS,

like they're saying.

Oh, you do realise?

This is, yeah, bad.

The people making these promises,

people you have never heard of -

Dominic Cummings -

they're not elected,

they're not going to form

a government, despite having

made billions of pretend spending

promises post-Brexit that they

have no power, or responsibility

to see any of it through!

OK, we could take a little break.

Or Arron Banks and his diamond mine

in South Africa,

or Nigel Farage,

the old stockbroker.

Boris Johnson,

Jacob Rees-Mogg - yeah,

they're going to be fine, aren't

they? This is just a game to them!

A debating society.

But the risk to you

and your children...

There's no risk! Come to where

I'm from, there's nothing to lose!

We've got something to lose - our

age. Yous lot have had your lives!

I've had my life?! What do you know

about my life? You've had your jobs

and homes and things,

it doesn't matter to you, yeah?

Take a risk, sod it, thank you very

much! I haven't been lucky,

I've lost everything!

You're nervous about people with a

different colour skin and accent.

Oh, I am sick of being called that!

What did I call you? What did I say?

You know what you were calling me!

No, I don't!

r*cist! r*cist! r*cist! That's what!

Exactly when did I say that?

You were saying that!

Sorry, she's right, all right?

Hate crimes - there's one bloke near

me... And that's my fault, is it?

All right, it's true! We can't say

nothing now without that coming up!

There's no need to...

It wasn't on purpose.

You can stand there all you like

and say, "I've had my life,"

coming from your big city! The past

years have been f*cking awful!

If you must know! That's my fault.

And all I hear all the time is,

"Shut up, don't talk about it,

don't mention it, ever!"

Well, I'm sick of it!

I'm sick of feeling like nothing,

like I have nothing,

like I know nothing,

like I am nothing, I'm sick of it!

Hadn't realised,

and now it's too late.

Their campaign began 20 years ago.

More.

The slow drip, drip, drip of fear

and hate,

without anyone willing

to counter it.

Worse - we stuck the boot in too.

How many of us on this side

blamed Europe or the outsider

when it was politically convenient

to do so?

And now?

Now we're expected in a matter

of weeks

to begin pushing back that tide.

And I will stand on this boat

and I'll say you are wrong

and you are wrong and you're wrong!

Not one of you lot look like you

have come out of Southend-on-Sea!

So this is what we're reduced to,

is it?

This is who we are?

You brag that you're London

through and through.

Go back down the river

cos you're up one without a canoe!

To the dismay of Remain colleagues,

Gedolf's signals were

somewhat crude.

On that breaking news,

reports of a stabbing and sh**ting

involving the MP Jo Cox.

Very scant information

at this stage.

But according to the Press

Association, they're quoting

an eye witness who says,

that the Batley and Spen MP

has been sh*t in the incident.

Details really are scant.

Jo Cox is the MP

for Batley and Spen.

We know that she is involved

in some way,

and we have been told

that she is injured.

I'm afraid that really is

as much as is coming through

at the moment.

So some sort of incident...

OK. OK. Thanks, thank you.

Yeah, bye.

Emergency services at the scene.

She's co-chair of the Friends Of

Syria All-party Parliamentary Group.

She was a strong advocate

for Britain Stronger in Europe.

We're hearing that she was

at a nearby library holding a...

Just before

one o'clock today,

Jo Cox,

MP for Batley and Spenborough,

was att*cked in Market Street,

Birstall.

I am now very sad

to have to report

that she has d*ed

as a result of her injuries.

Before going into further detail,

I would like to express

our deepest sympathies

to her family and friends

at this tragic time.

Jo was att*cked by a man

who inflicted serious and, sadly,

ultimately fatal injuries.

Subsequently there was a

further att*ck on a 77-year-old man

nearby, who has sustained injuries

that are non-life-threatening.

Shortly afterwards,

a man was arrested nearby

by a local uniformed...

Strange week.

Yeah.

Drink?

I didn't think it would be

as bad as this. You? No.

But, then again, isn't that what

these types of questions do?

Force people into tribes.

Still, I think it should be

possible, vital even,

for a country to be able to ask

itself a question,

and to be answered without...

..all this.

Without such hate.

Without f*cking death.

Yeah.

Seems it's moved...

..way beyond our relationship

with an economic bloc. It's...

..it's about the soul

of our country.

I worry.

I worry that we won't

be able to heal...

..that this has created...

Exposed - we didn't create it.

..a type of debate, a politics

that is unsophisticated,

uncivilised and, worst of all,

unkind.

Seriously, though,

you...you don't worry about

the long-term repercussions

of all this?

Of undermining the very concept of

expertise, of independent authority?

Your experts had an agenda.

Based on their knowledge.

You are feeding a toxic culture,

where nobody can trust or believe

anything...

That is not what I'm doing at all.

..where nobody listens

to each other, they just yell.

And the loudest and the rudest

gets heard... And give people

a voice who have been ignored

for years. You're not giving them

a voice, you're inciting them.

Don't confuse me with Banks

and Farage, they're the ones

who are inciting people.

How convenient that you had them

to do your dirty work for you.

Have you ever, ever REALLY tried

to stop them?

You and your lot have dominated

politics, political discourse,

for decades, Craig,

and what have you done with it?

What?

You can't close the box, Dom,

once it's been opened.

This is the new politics now,

the way we will conduct...

Change is exciting.

What's your edge?

What are you doing,

what have you found?

It's the sleep I miss.

I miss sleep.

God I do, too, I miss sleep.

I honestly think I had more hours

a night

when my kids were born than this.

You're having a baby, aren't you?

Yeah.

What have you got, two daughters?

Three.

I think about it, you know?

About the kind of country

that they'll grow up in.

What is this?

A "think of the children" appeal?

Please, Craig. I am doing.

I'm trying to get us ready.

The train coming down the tracks

isn't the one that you expected,

it's not the one advertised

on the board? Well, tough. It isn't

even the one that I imagined.

But I accept it.

You can't stop it.

You're right,

there is a new politics in town.

One that you cannot control.

Be careful what you wish for.

You won't be able to control it

either.

Last orders!

It is decision day.

After all the campaigning,

the rows and debates,

today, it is time for the voters

to have their say.

Polling stations opened

at seven o'clock this morning.

More that 46 million people

have their chance to vote today.

That's a record for this country.

I voted to Remain. I don't think

there's any good reason

to stay in the thing.

The referendum is taking place

in every part of the United Kingdom.

The polls are open

until 10 o'clock tonight.

And, once they close,

it will be at Manchester Town Hall

that the final result will be

declared by the chair

of the Electoral Commission.

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.

The total number of ballot papers

counted was

33,577,342.

The total number of votes cast

in favour of Remain was

16,141,241.

The total number of votes cast

in favour of Leave was

17,410,742.

You've changed the country forever!

And that's

the result of this referendum,

which has been preceded

by weeks and months of argument

and dispute. The British people have

spoken, and the answer is we're out.

If I may...

If I may borrow from England's

greatest wordsmith.

From this day

to the ending of the world,

but we in it shall be remembered.

Yeah? Congratulations. I can't

believe we did it. It's amazing.

..brothers. Dom, are you there?

Yeah.

Great. It's great.

Look, I just want to say, I know

we had our own little wobble.

I've gotta go.

Dom! Dom! Dom! Dom! Dom!

Dom! Dom! Dom! Dom!

Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech!

What did we say we were going to do?

k*ll the CBI?

We wanted to take back control.

What are we doing?

Taking back control.

What have we done?

Taken back control!

Come on!

Honesty,

decency and faith in nature

I think now is going to win!

And we will have done it

without having to fight

and without one single b*llet being

fired. And we will have done it.

Actually, one b*llet WAS fired,

you moronic, little c**t.

And some people

are now saying that was wrong.

And that the people should

never have been asked in this way.

I disagree.

I believe it was entirely right...

..and inevitable, and indeed,

that there is no way of dealing

with a question on this scale,

except by putting it to the people.

In the end, this question is ABOU the people.

It's about the right of the people

of this country

to settle their own destiny.

Within hours,

David Cameron announced

he was standing down as

Prime Minister. Thank you very much.

He said he'd stay in Number Ten

for the next few months,

but that the country required

fresh leadership.

Right.

I can't hear it any more. Can you?

It's gone.

Mr Cummings.

I said, if you are the

unknown soldier in all of this,

the real puppet master,

and we're all living in the future

that you have imagined for us...

This isn't my future, this is crap.

It's all gone crap.

So, you were wrong?

Your predictions,

your optimism for life outside

the EU, it was flawed?

This is a...

Well, it's going to be a

multi-decade project. Multi-decade?!

Yeah. I didn't see that

on the side of the bus.

The vision wasn't flawed...

..it's people that are flawed.

The politicians, they did it crap,

and they ruined it.

I said the entire Downing Street

operating system needed overhauling.

But you weren't there, were you?

You were pushed out, once again.

There is a systems failure

in this country and across the West.

We're languishing, we're drifting

without a vision or a purpose.

And what do you do usually

when there's a systems failure?

You reset. And that's all I did.

I reset.

And what did they do?

What did all of you do?

You rebooted

the same operating system,

the same tired, old politics

of short-termism,

and self-serving, small-thinking

bullshit. But are you not part

of the same culture, Mr Cummings?

No. Of half-truths? Well...

Easy answers, false promises?

Yes, yes, don't think that I don't

know I'm as bad as the rest of them,

but that's what the system does,

the virus, it infects.

But I was hoping, just praying,

that someone, anyone,

with a minimalist amount of...

even a f*cking modicum, an ounce

of imagination or vision

or, Jesus Christ, aspiration,

could see that there was the

opportunity for something to...

..to actually happen, for someone

to step in and do something...

..to make a change to...

..to just...

Are you done, Mr Cummings?

Yeah, I'm done.

We're all done. Thank you.
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