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Teenage Brexit Party Official Helped Leak Diplomatic Cables of Ambassador Slamming Trump
Telegraph ^

Posted on 07/21/2019 11:16:46 AM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan

Scotland Yard risked being dragged into a politically charged row over Sir Kim Darroch’s emails after a teenager working for the Brexit Party said he was the middleman who obtained the classified documents.

Steven Edginton, 19, who runs the Brexit Party’s social media feeds, insisted he passed the documents to the political journalist Isabel Oakeshott.

Mr Edginton, who also describes himself as a freelance journalist, said he did not want his name on the articles, subsequently published in the mail on Sunday, “to avoid possible controversy”.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: braking; brexit; brexitparty; britain; darroch; isabeloakeshott; kimdarroch; nigelfarage; scotlandyard; stevenedginton; trump; uk; unitedkingdom
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1 posted on 07/21/2019 11:16:46 AM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

Career’s off to a smashin’ start...


2 posted on 07/21/2019 11:25:52 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

Just like the Hillary emails. Everybody acts like what’s IN the emails is no big deal, the crime that matters is nailing the person dared to let the little people know what’s really going on.

I care more about the content then who was kind enough to let us all know the truth.


3 posted on 07/21/2019 11:28:46 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

Whistleblower.

Same as the guy who leaked the DNC emails showing the primary was rigged for Hillary.


4 posted on 07/21/2019 11:30:47 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

Ben Franklin similarly came in possession of and anonymously made public some embarrassing correspondence by a British (Massachusetts Governor Hutchinson) politician. In both cases a patriotic albeit underhanded act, worthy of praise. That being said, we can probably rely on the stuffed shirts on both sides of the Pond to respond in anger.


5 posted on 07/21/2019 11:35:09 AM PDT by katana
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

I believe the emails were linked by the Remain side. Further driving a wedge between the US and the UK only serves their purposes.


6 posted on 07/21/2019 11:35:20 AM PDT by keat
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

For national interest? Shouldn’t they say for Eurocrat EU interest instead, doh!

We know French president Macron raided Melanchon’s computers on orders of Merkel...


7 posted on 07/21/2019 11:38:19 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hatse:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

He’s not a teenager. He’s an effing man.


8 posted on 07/21/2019 11:49:18 AM PDT by Scarpetta (The election of Donald Trump is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy.)
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

The Brits placed this man who hates Trump in their number one most important diplomatic post. The kid did a good deed as far as I’m concerned.


9 posted on 07/21/2019 11:54:22 AM PDT by Dogbert41 (When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe. -Luke 11:21)
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“I believe the emails were linked by the Remain side. Further driving a wedge between the US and the UK only serves their purposes.”

if that’s actually the case, then they miscalculated, because Trump-hating, USA-hating Jeremy Hunt stood up for the UK’s Trump-hating U.S. ambassador who subsequently got run out, thus most likely boosting the chances of pro-USA, pro-Trump Boris Johnson ...


10 posted on 07/21/2019 12:07:43 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Scarpetta

He’s a journalist. He didn’t steal the memos. They were given to him. He just passed them on. In the US this would be perfectly legal. I don’t know about The law in Great Britain.


11 posted on 07/21/2019 12:13:52 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
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To: DesertRhino

Well said. Truth has no owner and is more powerful than those who would suppress it.


12 posted on 07/21/2019 12:21:10 PM PDT by vigilence (Vigilence)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks sinsofsolarempirefan. Sir Kim should be stripped of his title by Her Majesty.

13 posted on 07/21/2019 12:25:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Dogbert41

The Brits placed this man who hates Trump in their number one most important diplomatic post. The kid did a good deed as far as I’m concerned.
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Yep.


14 posted on 07/21/2019 12:45:50 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: bigbob

He’s already reached the state Churchill was at around 1937, with more reason. I wouldn’t hire him as a gopher.


15 posted on 07/21/2019 1:04:19 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Dogbert41

I Totally AGREE


17 posted on 07/21/2019 1:49:18 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

He is probably a good guy and fighting for Brexit and in the meantime $rewing the hate America Brit Intel.


18 posted on 07/21/2019 2:06:28 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Demographics will determine, who wins control of America.)
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To: Scarpetta

The article says he’s 19. Was that a misprint?


19 posted on 07/21/2019 3:10:17 PM PDT by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: Scarpetta
Looks like he is indeed a teenager. I found many other articles over the past few years stating he was 17 and 18.

Who is the 19 year-old running the Brexit Party’s online operation?


20 posted on 07/21/2019 3:20:08 PM PDT by Brown Deer (America First!)
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