Marcus J Ball, Crowdfunded private prosecutor

Crowdfunded private prosecutor Marcus J Ball, who has spent over three years building a criminal prosecution case against Boris Johnson, has received a court order demanding that he pay the Prime Minister £100,000.

Multi-millionaire Johnson requested that the court make the demand. This was after the private prosecutor, who earns less than the minimum wage per hour, brought a criminal prosecution case against him in an attempt to hold him to account for lying to the public.

For more detailed information on the legal case see this Medium article from Marcus: https://medium.com/@MarcusJBall/our-criminal-prosecution-case-against-boris-johnson-is-continuing-this-is-why-ddcd0a964876

Mr Ball said that: ‘I was 26 when I started this work and it’s my 30th Birthday on Wednesday. I don’t come from a wealthy background, I’ve earnt under minimum wage per hour on this thing, there’s no financial reward for me here, only great risk. I’m doing this because Boris Johnson is a dangerous liar. He is a liar who lies to the public about matters of great public importance.’

‘When an elected public office holder does this they abuse public trust in the systems of Parliament and democracy. I refuse to be intimidated by Mr Johnson’s costs order and I will continue our prosecution case against him. My excellent legal team are standing by me, we will shortly submit our request for the courts to judicially review the decision against us. We must get this into the Supreme Court, which has been formed to decide upon the kind of matters of great public importance that our case raises’.

‘I’m not a member of any political party and I didn’t campaign during the referendum, I just hate lying in politics. The UK does not send the EU £20 billion a year, this claim is false by over £5 billion. We have evidence that Mr Johnson knew this but decided to repeatedly say it anyway in an effort to deceive the public. Members of Parliament have a duty to honestly scrutinise and criticise executive spending for the public benefit. We need to be able to trust them with our money, when they lie about how it’s spent they totally abuse that trust’.

Marcus finished by saying that: If you hate lying in politics and you want to help us in our efforts, then please join me right now. Go to www.Crowdfunder.co.uk/BallVJohnson and crowdfund our case! Our application for judicial review challenging the High Court’s ruling against us will be submitted by our legal team imminently. We of course, like Mr Johnson respect the judicial process, but the Judges, respectfully, got the Judgement wrong. We strongly believe that the Supreme Court should have been given the opportunity without fear or favour to define the elements of the offence of misconduct in public office regarding our case. Taking Johnson on is completely the right thing to do but it’s also enormously expensive, I need the public behind me or this won’t work.