I doubt This Writer is alone in being slightly dizzy due to the whirl of evidence, counter-evidence, lies, falsehoods and half-truths about Conservative MPs and activists, Vote Leave and BeLeave working together to illegally influence the result of the EU referendum.

As I understand it, Shahmir Sanni was outed as gay by Stephen Parkinson, Theresa May’s political secretary, as a reprisal for blowing the whistle on the connections. This endangered the lives of Mr Sanni’s relatives in Pakistan, where homosexuality is illegal – and strongly suggests that the Conservative Party currently believes that protecting the illegally-won result of the referendum as more important than human lives.

This is an unacceptable attitude for any UK political organisation to have, and Mrs May should be made to account for it. Sadly, in Prime Minister’s Questions today (March 28), she ducked the issue. Perhaps legal force should be brought to bear.

In the meantime, we should all be grateful to Carole Cadwalladr, who continues to release valuable information to the public. What follows is a Twitter thread she published yesterday evening, detailing some of the connections between Vote Leave and BeLeave, and showing that these campaigns were co-ordinating with each other in a way that is illegal.

In a reasonable democracy, the revelations of interference by Cambridge Analytica and co-ordination between Vote Leave and BeLeave, on top of the fact that much of the Leave campaign was based on lies, would be enough to render the referendum null and void. The result is compromised beyond redemption and we are being taken out of the EU on the basis of a decision made in defiance of democracy.

Clearly we don’t live in a reasonable democracy. What will it take to stop the madness?

Emergency debate in parliament today re Vote Leave.

MPs: this Google drive is key evidence.

Set up by VL to co-ordinate BeLeave's content. On right: the deletion log.

March 1, Electoral Commission opened investigation.

March 17, Vote Leave deleted itself from 140 files pic.twitter.com/7QkgrojWPU — Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) March 27, 2018

If proven, this would be the biggest election scandal of modern times. The biggest overspend. Our electoral laws were overhauled in 19th century to stop elections being bought. But they're now unenforceable, because: Facebook. — Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) March 27, 2018

This was the cynical exploitation of two young, idealistic people. Here's Darren – the founder of the entirely independent & separate BeLeave campaign – wearing his Vote Leave badge in Vote Leave's headquarters. pic.twitter.com/i35qOGjiXp — Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) March 27, 2018

"Everyone knew who we were," says Shahmir. "Michael Gove knew Darren. Boris Johnson knew Darren. Everyone knew who BeLeave were and how important we'd been to the campaign." pic.twitter.com/TvQIYoN062 — Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) March 27, 2018

https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/978544213129392128

And here are Theresa May’s advisers Stephen Parkinson & Cleo Watson helping BeLeave set up their constituition pic.twitter.com/3mvVj5mA33 — Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) March 27, 2018

And this may be the document that I find most appalling. Theresa May’s adviser tells Vote Leave’s lawyer ‘Darren & rest of the group (18-22) don’t feel comfortable handling the money side of things’ pic.twitter.com/7muz1euKHY — Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) March 27, 2018

And here’s a Vote Leave senior director instructing Darren what to tell press re donations. pic.twitter.com/8Y2SOnAGCP — Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) March 27, 2018

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