Clarence Mitchell and Esther McVey - PLUS CM now PR for Cambridge Analytica

Cambridge Analytica fights back on data scandal

By Associated Press


LONDON (AP) - Cambridge Analytica unleashed its counterattack against claims that it misused data from millions of Facebook accounts, saying Tuesday it is the victim of misunderstandings and inaccurate reporting that portrays the company as the evil villain in a James Bond movie.

Clarence Mitchell, a high-profile publicist recently hired to represent the company, held Cambridge Analytica's first news conference since allegations surfaced that the Facebook data helped Donald Trump win the 2016 presidential election. Christopher Wylie, a former employee of Cambridge Analytica's parent, also claims that the company has links to the successful campaign to take Britain out of the European Union.

"The company has been portrayed in some quarters as almost some Bond villain," Mitchell said. "Cambridge Analytica is no Bond villain."

Cambridge Analytica didn't use any of the Facebook data in the work it did for Trump's campaign and it never did any work on the Brexit campaign, Mitchell said. Furthermore, he said, the data was collected by another company that was contractually obligated to follow data protection rules and the information was deleted as soon as Facebook raised concerns.

Mitchell insists the company has not broken any laws, but acknowledged it had commissioned an independent investigation is being conducted. He insisted that the company had been victimized by "wild speculation based on misinformation, misunderstanding, or in some cases, frankly, an overtly political position."

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Sky news interviewing CM yesterday.....

Not a happy chappy there on the second video imo, trips over chair, and has a face like a bag full of chisels

Dearie me, Clarence has put is midas touch on this company, NOT


Cambridge Analytica Is Shutting Down, Wall Street Journal Says

By
Jordan Robertson


02‎ ‎May‎ ‎2018‎ ‎19‎:‎06


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-02/cambridge-analytica-is-shutting-down-wall-street-journal-says


and here

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/cambridge-analytica-shutting-down-closing-uk-us-facebook-data-scandal-controversy-a8333496.html





The kiss of death as someone put it on twitter.

Sadly it means nothing as they already set-up the new company in March!

http://uk.businessinsider.com/cambridge-analytica-executives-and-mercer-family-launch-emerdata-2018-3?r=US&IR=T

Yes, you are right



Scott Dworkin‏Verified account @funder · 44m44 minutes ago

Cambridge Analytica, a shell company, is shutting down. The same people already started a separate shell data company. Keep the investigation going. They shouldn’t be allowed to close entirely while under investigation. What evidence will they try to destroy? Probably all of it.









Rebecca Ballhaus‏Verified account @rebeccaballhaus · 2h2 hours ago


Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group are closing their doors. But just two months ago, Rebekah Mercer and her sister, Jennifer, joined the board of a new company, Emerdata Ltd., where another board member is...Alexander Nix.

Headlines today =Mcvey wants pupils to get summer jobs, a selection from the hashtag.....







Rachael Swindon #JC9‏ @Rachael_Swindon · 4h4 hours ago




So Esther McVey is on the front of today’s Telegraph saying teenagers should go & get a job during the summer holidays. After all, those chimneys won’t just sweep themselves.
Quite rich coming from a Tory on a six-figured salary who will get to enjoy the next 6 weeks off work





Kenny Brock Out‏ @Kennybrock0ut · 3h3 hours ago


Don't think I've ever seen a more insincere, condersending and fake Politician in my life as Esther McVey






Susie Harris‏ @susieharris19 · 33m33 minutes ago


You look out at beautiful sunshine and then you see Esther McVey on your TV and the day turns sour. This woman alongside Iain Duncan Smith have caused untold misery to so many in this country with their ignorant policies. She has helped increase poverty in UK - what a record!!









Michael Chesworth‏ @cheesiechez1 · 2h2 hours ago

Replying to @5WrightStuff

Esther Mcvey would put 3 year olds to work if she could get away with it



Esther McVey has to go. Her downright lies are dangerous
Thu 5 Jul 2018 06.00 BST

Polly Toynbee

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/05/esther-mcvey-lies-work-pensions-universal-credit

m00 c0w‏ @m00m00p00 · 19m19 minutes ago

Esther McVey is trending. Well I can guarantee it isn't because she's given money to charity, saved an animal nor have scientists discovered she actually has a heart. #CruellaDeVey

Well it seems like dear Clarnece is happy to dump his beloved Brighton  and is now on the shortlist as prospective candidate for Peterborough


Selection news: Peterborough shortlist revealed, and the first London seats open for candidate applications

https://www.conservativehome.com/parliament/2018/10/selection-news-peterborough-shortlist-revealed-and-the-first-london-seats-open-for-candidate-applications.html


Voting on Frid 19th Oct.

candyfloss wrote:Well it seems like dear Clarnece is happy to dump his beloved Brighton  and is now on the shortlist as prospective candidate for Peterborough


Selection news: Peterborough shortlist revealed, and the first London seats open for candidate applications

https://www.conservativehome.com/parliament/2018/10/selection-news-peterborough-shortlist-revealed-and-the-first-london-seats-open-for-candidate-applications.html


Voting on Frid 19th Oct.

Aww, quelle shame, no one wants Clarence, wonder where he will try next,....




Published: October 19, 2018

Paul Bristow selected for Peterborough


https://www.conservativehome.com/parliament/2018/10/paul-bristow-selected-for-peterborough.html

Good news that Mitchell never got selected.

Ex-cabinet minister Esther McVey says she would run for Conservative leader if asked

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/esther-mcvey-conservative-leader-brexit-deal-theresa-may-government-vote-mp-a8674581.html

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46495595

My son is one of the marchers out in London today!

Freedom wrote:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46495595

My son is one of the marchers out in London today!

I really cannot work out what the march was about. There seems to have been more than one march.

Yes, there was one supporting Brexit and the other one wanting to stay in the EU.

Blimey



BBC Politics‏Verified account @BBCPolitics · 41m41 minutes ago






Esther McVey announces Conservative leadership bid

Esther McVey announces Conservative leadership bid


Former cabinet minister Esther McVey has announced she will stand for leader of the Conservative Party.

She told Talk Radio she had "enough support" from fellow MPs to "go forward" once Theresa May stands down.

International Development Secretary Rory Stewart has announced he will run and Commons leader Andrea Leadsom has said she is "considering" doing so.

Other senior Tories are expected to join them, with Mrs May promising to go once the first stage of Brexit is over.

The widely touted possible contenders include former and current members of the Cabinet, including Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Amber Rudd, Sajid Javid, Dominic Raab, Jeremy Hunt, Penny Mordaunt and Liz Truss.




Ms McVey, a Brexit supporter and former TV presenter, quit as Work and Pensions Secretary last November in protest at Mrs May's withdrawal agreement with the EU.

Asked on Talk Radio whether she would run for leader, the MP for Tatton, in Cheshire, said: "I've always said quite clearly that if I got enough support from colleagues then, yes, I would, and now people have come forward and I have that support."

In a Conservative leadership contest, MPs hold a series of ballots, with the candidate gaining the fewest votes eliminated at each stage.

Once the field is reduced to two, the winner is chosen by a vote of party members. This wider vote did not occur in 2016, when Mrs May became leader, after the second-placed candidate among MPs - Mrs Leadsom - stood aside.


Mrs May won a Tory MPs' vote of confidence in her leadership last December, and party rules mean that another such vote cannot be triggered until next December.

But the prime minister has come under pressure to name an exit date, after the Commons effectively rejected her agreement with the EU three times.

The Conservatives also lost more than 1,300 seats in last week's English council elections, increasing concerns over possible heavy losses to Nigel Farage's Brexit Party in European Parliament elections on 23 May.

Mrs May has agreed to address a meeting of the 1922 Committee - an elected body of Tory MPs which represents backbenchers and oversees leadership contests - next week.

The committee's chairman, Sir Graham Brady, said he believed she would ask the Commons to vote again on the terms of the UK's exit before the European Parliament elections.

Much of the anger in the Conservative parliamentary party is focusing on Mrs May's efforts to find a Brexit compromise with Labour.

And local Conservative Association chairmen are to hold a non-binding no-confidence vote on the prime minister's leadership.

In the Commons on Wednesday, Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns urged Mrs May to resign, saying she had "failed to deliver on her promises" on Brexit.

But Mrs May replied that this was "not an issue about me" and that, if it was up to her, the UK would have already left the EU.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48212755

I have no words.

So of the last three leaders of the Conservative party, you've got Cameron, friend of Matthew Freud, whose father lived in Praia da Luz. Then you've got Treason May, who was had over a barrel by The Sun over the commencement of Operation Grange. And now you've potentially got a childhood friend of Kate McCann.

Small world or what?

Oh dear Esther McVey only managed to scrape together 9 votes and has been eliminated.  She actually came bottom with the least votes.  Wonder why.


Plus we had this story of her photography expenses...…..


https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/esther-mcvey-charges-taxpayers-8000-16510796

Still having bad luck is Esther McVey, she's been given the old heave-ho from the cabinet...

Comments on twitter are the usual not very favourable to her, she is taking a lot of stick..