Straight out of the Trump 2016 playbook - an outfit fronted by the ex CTO of Vote Leave runs ads encouraging people in some areas to vote Green (and the Greens aren& #39;t happy)

Just like with Trump, the idea is to deceive & confuse https://www.wired.co.uk/article/vote-leave-3rd-party-green-party">https://www.wired.co.uk/article/v...

Just one example of what happened in 2016, pro Trump trolls developed official looking Clinton ads telling people to vote by text message

A similar group of shysters is running things over here & vote suppression / diversion is a big part of what they do https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/inside-4chans-election-day-mayhem-and-misinformation-playboo">https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/j...

The vote green ads are being targeted at the under 25s, and so far the spend, £800-£1600, is modest. Even so, the ex vote leave staffers have gained 50k impressions from it.

I imagine this is currently something of a test exercise for a bigger voter confusion effort in Dec

Few final things:

1 - In 2016 Vote Leave weighted their online spend to the final days, this is only the start. Expect more voter disinformation to come

2 - Small £ can make a big difference, one of the seats targeted, Southampton Itchen, has a Cons majority of 31