The Brexit Justice story so far:

I instinctively felt that what had occurred was so wrong that there must be a legal solution to it. I read an article written by a barrister exploring the idea of a prosecution and it encouraged my thinking. I decided that I wanted to try and prosecute elected representatives who had intentionally lied to the public. I knew I'd need a huge amount of money, a team of lawyers, evidence, a strong legal argument and thousands of people at my back. I started with none of this, I eventually got all of it. The mission was to set a legal precedent in the UK common law that prevents political leaders from lying to the public in future. This precedent could influence the law in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere through international common law case precedent. I wanted to achieve a beginning to the end of lying in politics internationally.

The beginning was hard because we were working with a budget of near £0.00. I started with nothing but a video I filmed in a neighbour's garden and some hastily drawn up designs. However, we gradually made progress and improved our page based upon user feedback.​

I knew that this would never work unless we got some big press coverage. Luckily I had some experience in this area and the volunteers helped enormously. We were covered by British, French, German, Iberian, Greek, Romanian, Russian and US media among others.This took our funding through the roof. As planned.

We met our £100,000 target and eventually received £145,000 of pledges from just under 5000 people. This was more than enough to get us started.

The investigation of both leave and remain camps in order to build our case was very complex and time consuming. Who were we prosecuting? Under what terms? What is our case strategy? What evidence are we making use of? This was the longest and hardest part of the process so far. I gathered evidence, carried out interviews with interesting people in interesting places, researched, wrote case arguments, debated with lawyers and in general worked to find out what was possible. Over this year and a half period the case got a lot smaller, more focussed and stronger. The process of investigating and building the case was difficult and demoralising for many reasons. There were very high highs and very low lows. I felt a huge weight of responsibility. What would it say about our country if nobody did anything about what had happened? What would it say about me if I gave up? There was no way I was giving up, I knew there was a strong case and all I had to do was persist.

I understood that my life was about to change in many ways that I wouldn't enjoy. I had to prepare myself. I had to make 100% certain that all of the evidence was secure and in our possession. Digital security, physical security, web presence, social media, websites (like this one), communications and funding strategy; all of it had to be done. But perhaps most importantly, I also needed to rest and prepare myself psychologically. The legal research and case building was done, this was the time for everything else.