UK Parties: The Brexit Party and UKIP

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20. Bannon's a bit player and Johnny-Come-Lately, more a legend in his own mind than a real threat.

I'm talking about groups from the British-American Project and Henry Jackson Society, which has involved a number of UK politicians, to the Koch Brothers, Cato Institute, the Mercers, the usual suspects, including the Tax Payers' Alliance (whose chief, Matthew Elliott, perhaps predictably, doesn't pay UK tax) and the so-called Institute of Economic Affairs, a lobby group whose pundits get regular slots on the BBC, but which is always very cagey about its donors.

Here's a taster from 2018: Rightwing thinktanks unveil radical plan for US-UK Brexit trade deal

And here's a roundup from Byline Times about lobbyists in UK politics: Who's Behind Boris Johnson's Coup? The Murky Lobbyists Who've Taken Over the Government

And it's OK, you're not the first to come in here all guns blazing about Putin, which may be why I sounded a bit weary about it all. For one thing, the referendum was an entirely paper ballot with the count divided between many centres. The conspiracy that would have been required to tamper with the votes themselves would have had to be massive and leak-free.