Sorry Brexiters – but you’ve been conned. By an American. And he’s not even hiding the fact.
PR executive Gerry Gunster has been boasting about how his firm was behind the successful Brexit campaign – and how he used sales techniques in the place of facts to trick British voters into voting for Brexit.
Gunster claims he was behind the successful slogan “take back control” and was the person who directed the Leave campaign to run a campaign free of facts which played on voters’ emotions, in particular fears about immigration.
Gunster even employed the services of a hypnotist to work on Leave campaign videos.
The extremely expensive services of Gunster’s Washington firm were bankrolled to run the Brexit campaign by multi-millionare UKIP backer Arron Banks.
In the past, Gunster’s firm has helped big US corporations fight unpopular public health measures such as sugar taxes.
It’s ironic the very voters who wanted the UK to “take back control” were themselves controlled by a foreign PR company.
Read more on exactly how Gunster’s sales techniques conned UK voters here.
Gerry Gunster (far left) next to Banks with Trump and Farage
Pride's Purge 
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The dastardly swine !!!! I’ll reblog this if I may for my Brexit ‘friends’ on f/book. They are all still quoting his themes ….. will this be cause for a ‘re-run’ of the referendum ???
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Did anyone actually listen to the campaigns? I know I didn’t.
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Why doesn’t it surprise me. Every day I hear things that give me more sympathy for conspiracy theorists, no matter how out there the theory..
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Further notice that the ‘BREXIT’ campaign was an organised symphony of lies deceit and marketing strategy (which is MORE lies) … reblogged for all my ‘BREXITEER’ friends on Facebook and Twitter ….
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My God this is just the sort of thing that my people have been doing for years. I wish you hadn’t posted this…
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Oh, darn!!! Maybe we’ll have to reconsider being in the stasi, corrupt, undemocratic, neocon EU instead hey????
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Run out of words…
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AND -we used to scoff at dodgy dictatorships…the wonderful west ….
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So where’s this control we’re supposed to have taken back, then? Grrrrrr!
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Patronising twaddle. Bring out the next bucket of sour grapes!
So we were conned. Subliminally. By some American, were we?
Yup. Of course we were.
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I voted brexit as young folk in my town struggle to get jobs due to so many foreign workers.
Of course the people campaigning to stay in the EU did not resort to exaggeration, spin, bullshit, fearmongering…….er …hmmm ……they did.
This article sour grapes Tom?
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No one who voted Brexit is going to read this and realise they were conned. Or at least, not many people have the ability to admit they might have been manipulated, in fact they’re more likely to double down on the con. That’s the beauty of it, and why the guy can come out and talk openly about what he did, he knows that cognitive dissonance means people will refuse to acknowledge his tactics worked on them.
Even in these comments there are people saying the same stuff he put out there, seemingly oblivious – that the EU is undemocratic, corrupt, foreign workers mean British people can’t get jobs etc. All total lies, but it goes to show how scarily easy it is to hook people onto your idea using repetition and evoking certain emotions, and to keep them hooked, even when it becomes obvious they’ve been lied to, even when it becomes obvious they’re acting against their own interests. Humans are strange creatures.
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