{"id":363427,"date":"2018-05-30T21:28:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T20:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/latest-soros-bid-to-reverse-eu-referendum-enrages-brexiteers-rt-uk-news\/"},"modified":"2018-05-30T21:28:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T20:28:58","slug":"latest-soros-bid-to-reverse-eu-referendum-enrages-brexiteers-rt-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/latest-soros-bid-to-reverse-eu-referendum-enrages-brexiteers-rt-uk-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Soros bid to reverse EU referendum enrages Brexiteers \u2014 RT UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>        Brexiteers have reacted with fury at the upcoming launch of a new campaign by pro-Remain group \u2018Best for Britain\u2019 which is demanding a second referendum on the UK\u2019s membership of the European Union.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>\u201cWe made our mind up already,\u201d<\/em> said UKIP MEP Nigel Farage on his LBC radio show, calling out the <em>\u201cgreat globalist\u201d<\/em> George Soros for his part in funding Best for Britain to the tune of \u00a3500,000.<\/p>\n<div class=\"arcticle__read-more read-more\">\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/428194-george-soros-brexit-referendum\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"read-more__cover\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.05\/thumbnail\/5b0e62acdda4c8065a8b45bf.jpg\" alt=\"\u00a9 M. Popow\/ Global Look Press\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Calling the June 2016 vote<em> \u201cthe democratic exercise in the history of this country,\u201d<\/em> Farage took shots at Soros\u2019 remarks, reiterating that the people of Britain <em>\u201chad made our minds up\u201d<\/em> already in regards to Brexit, before warning Soros and his friends want to <em>\u201cforce it upon us, well then we will beat you again.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Soros, a US-Hungarian billionaire philanthropist, who has previously heavily funded pro-European campaigns and initiatives, told a summit organized by the European Council of Foreign Relations Tuesday:<em> \u201cUltimately it\u2019s up to the British people to decide what they want to do. It would be better, however, if they came to a decision sooner rather than later.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He told the audience at the event in Paris that \u2018Best for Britain,\u2019 who secured a parliamentary vote on the triggering of Article 50, would be launching a new campaign <em>\u201cin the coming days,\u201d<\/em> to demand another public poll on the final deal hammered out with Brussels, and to include an option for the UK not to leave at all.<\/p>\n<p>The Mail Online, which last week reported on anti-Brexit <em>\u201cplotting\u201d<\/em> by \u2018Best for Britain,\u2019 labelled remarks made by \u2018Best for Britain\u2019s\u2019 chief, Lord Malloch-Brown, as an <em>\u201cincendiary intervention,\u201d<\/em> when he compared Brexit to the appeasement of Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-cards=\"hidden\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Why do people such as Remainers Soros &amp; Miller think it is right to use their \u00a3millions to overturn a democratic vote, trampling on the rights of 17.4 million people? What next General Election meddling? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EnoughisEnough?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EnoughisEnough<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Brexit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Brexit<\/a> is going to happen! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AvPI2Vep8d\">https:\/\/t.co\/AvPI2Vep8d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrea Jenkyns MP (@andreajenkyns) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andreajenkyns\/status\/1001589141849739269?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 29, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Speaking to BBC4s Today program, Malloch-Brown said:<em> \u201cBritain&#8217;s history as an island nation adjacent to mainland Europe is when we try to, sort of, pull away from Europe&#8217;s problems and close ourselves off to them they have a horrible habit of infecting us anyway.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAppeasement in the 1930s, you name it. For centuries Britain has ignored events on continental Europe at its peril,\u201d<\/em> he added.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bpvP3jlhZcg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Referring to Soros as a <em>\u201cscumbag,\u201d<\/em> the Brexit group Leave.EU tweeted reminders that the billionaire had \u201cprofited big time from speculating against our currency,\u201d a reference to Soros betting against the Sterling on global money markets in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Malloch-Brown dismissed the currency speculation profiteering as an <em>\u201cunrelated issue\u201d<\/em> to the anti-Brexit push.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Like this story? Share it with a friend!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/428264-brexit-soros-second-referendum\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brexiteers have reacted with fury at the upcoming launch of a new campaign by pro-Remain group \u2018Best for Britain\u2019 which is demanding a second referendum on the UK\u2019s membership of the European Union. \u201cWe made our mind up already,\u201d said UKIP MEP Nigel Farage on his LBC radio show, calling out the \u201cgreat globalist\u201d George [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":363428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-363427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}