"The leave campaign lied through its teeth about the benefits of Brexit."

In today's Guardian, Martin Kettle has written a level-headed detailed article about how Brexit might, just might, be stopped.

Martin Kettle's article is here:
It won’t be easy to stop Brexit. But here are four ways to do it

In this post I want to focus on a single statement in Martin Kettle's article:

"The leave campaign lied through its teeth about the benefits of Brexit."

Many, including myself, share that view.

It is not yet widely known that formal reports of alleged criminal offences in the campaign leading to the Brexit Referendum have been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions (on 24th October 2016) and to the Lord Advocate, in his role as Senior Prosecutor in Scotland (on 10th November 2016).

I am a signatory to both reports of suspected criminal electoral offences.

I fully expect that the Crown Prosecution Service (in England) and the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (in Scotland) will view the reports of suspected electoral offences as an unwelcome political hot potato.

 However, both the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Lord Advocate have a duty to investigate the suspected electoral offences.

The Crown Prosecution Service recently invited me to report the suspected offences to the Police.

However, it is my view that the duty to ensure that the alleged electoral offences are investigated lies (in England) with the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Crown Prosecution Service.

If, as I believe, electoral offences were committed then a Police investigation in England and in Scotland must follow.

Should such investigation start then the question of the legitimacy of the Referendum result will become a topic of active public discussion.

That is one element which might contribute to turning the tide against the Brexit Madness.