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See on the news this morning?

About those missing kids?

We're not the only ones looking.

There's a ticking clock.

-♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS) ♪
-(CLOCK TICKS)

The parts of our lives
are pieces.

Those kids, my kids, my wife.

-♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪
-(TICKING INTENSIFIES)

WAYNE HAYS:
This case is all I can think of.

And it keeps coming back.

( music playing )

Britain makes a noise.
An actual noise.

- Did you know that?
- Woman: I feel I should
almost apologize.

It says here you... basically
ran the Leave campaign,

and yet...

And yet,

I doubt most people
have ever heard of you.

It groans.

It's been groaning
for some time.

Must be annoying, old Boris
getting all the credit.

Oh, I don't seek
the limelight.

Dominic Cummings:
A hum that only
very few people can hear,

never stopping.

Woman:
Mr. Cummings,

this inquiry
was established

by the Information
Commissioner's Office

following revelations
concerning

the European Referendum
four years ago, in 2016.

Its primary purpose
is to investigate

the use of our personal data
in political campaigns,

and the way in which
it is rapidly altering

democratic processes
here...

Cummings:
A million important questions

to be asked of our nation,

our species, our planet,

and no one's asking
the right ones.

Man:
I mean, we're an education
think tank primarily,

and, uh, well, you were
once special advisor

to the education secretary,
so...

Your reputation precedes you,

although we'll try not
to believe everything we hear.

( men chuckling )

All I hear is noise.

Do you have
any thoughts?

Cummings:
Yeah, it's fucked.
We're all fucked.

What are your thoughts
on providing strategy
for our many clients?

Cummings:
Be polite, engaged.

Don't tell them what
you're really thinking.

So... what do you think?

What do I think?

Cummings:
Just breathe.

And think of Mary.

Breathe.

I think...

- Dominic?
- What do you think?

Cummings:
Breathe.

- I think...
- Oh, shit.

Stupid.

You should advise
your businesses that,

as a global society,

we are entering a series
of profound economic,

cultural, social,
political transitions

the like of which
the world has never seen.

Educated people
are the most stupid.

...massive increase
in resource requirements...

We need
an Odyssean education...

...rising tide
of religious extremism...

...the synthesis of...

...the generational inequalities

in the West
on an historic level...

...Apollonian rationality
and Dionysian intuition.

I would tell them that,
for the past years,

decades even,
this firm has failed...

to prepare any of them
for any of it.

Bill Dodd:
Because of course
it's not like

as if the U.K.'s experienced
anything like Brexit before.

Brexit will never be
a win-win.

The course that
Brexit will take...

- ...of our approach to Brexit.
- No-deal Brexit.

We live in a multiverse of
differing branches of history.

Brexit... Brexit...
Brexit... Brexit... Brexit.

Woman:
My question is,
do you consider your campaign

to have acted
within accordance
of British law?

And in a different branch
of history,

I was never here,

some of you voted differently,
and this never happened.

But I was.

And it did.

Everyone knows who won...

but not everyone knows how.

( "Ode to Joy" by
Beethoven playing )

Vintage Narrator:
The battle of the Continent

becomes Europe's total war.

Vintage Narrator #2:
In Amsterdam,

Churchill proclaimed
the need for a united Europe.

Announcer:
General De Gaulle said non

to Britain joining
the Common Market.

Announcer #2:
People can work without
restriction

in any of the six countries.

A particular problem
is the price of food.

Vintage Narrator:
Our entry into the EEC

will make Europe
the most powerful trading bloc
in the world.

Edward Heath:
We have our moment
of opportunity,

the chance of new greatness.

Now we must take it.

Margaret Thatcher:
A splendid

and decisive yes
for Britain in Europe.

I don't know
what I'm voting for.

I don't really see what good
it's going to do us.

We are asking for
our own money back.

We have not rolled back
the frontiers of the state

only to see them reimposed
at a European level.

( "Ode to Joy" continues )

...suspending membership
in the Exchange-Rate Mechanism.

I will now form a majority
Conservative government.

Tomorrow, I will commence
the process

to hold a referendum
on Britain's membership

of the European Union.

( "Ode to Joy" continues )

( low ) Sorry to
mobilize you so quickly.

( low ) Oh, no. It's what
the WhatsApp Group is for.

"Avengers assemble."
( chuckles )

I-I don't really know
what that is.

But, um, the past few years,

a band of rebels has been
meeting here regularly,

away from, um, you know...

It's very, um,

Tinker, Tailor.

Well, it worked.

We roused
enough of the rabble

to force Cameron's hand
on a referendum

should he
win the election--

obviously not expecting
to win outright.

Well, he has.

( quiet whisper )
So it's happening.

We are about to ask
the biggest question

the nation has asked
itself in a generation,

perhaps all generations:

in or out?

And we need a leader.

( quiet whisper )
Not me.

Things are going to get
pretty nasty.

I can organize
from the back.

I-I can't lead an army.

You need an attack dog
for that.

I have an idea.

It is risky, though.

He's different.

( doorbell rings )

( Cummings complaining )

If you want to be
a dog-kebab,

keep barking!

( dog barking )

Dom!

- Hi.
- Hello.

Can we, um...
can we have a chat?

Uh, yeah, sure.

Why don't you come in?

Douglas Carswell.

Douglas.
Hello. Hello.

Elliot:
So. ( chuckles )

What have you been up to
the past few...

- months?
- Two years.

- Is it?
- Yeah. Chucked it all in.

Went to live on my dad's farm.

Did a little bit of work...

and meditated.

Wrote a lot. Read.

Thucydides, Kipling, Tolstoy.

Right.

So... Dom...

...what we're looking for is--

Unh-unh. No way.
Promised myself

I'd never set foot
in Westminster again.

You can run this however you--

( scoffs )
Setting up a campaign

is like setting up
a multi-million pound start-up,

except you're warning investors
there's nothing to sell

and no profit
to be made from it.

In other words,
it's a fucking nightmare.

Just--
leave those investors to me,

because I can leave strategy,
for the most part, to you.

No.

Dominic.

All your life
you've been promised

people would listen
to your ideas.

And time and time again,

the establishment got scared.

They betrayed you.

Here's your chance
to really change things
like never before.

( clicks tongue )

- ( exhales )
- Elliot: It's OK.

- You can take your time.
- Oh. Of course.

Except we don't have any.

We need to be the first
out the gate.

Before the pro-EU side,
you mean?

I'm talking about
our own side.

You do know who Arron Banks is?

( laughter, chatter
in distance )

Carswell:
I know UKIP might give off
this blokey, jokey vibe,

but I'm afraid
a lot of their views are,
well, nothing to laugh about.

If these right-wing thugs
try and run the "out" campaign,
they'll kill it.

We need a more
respectable alternative.

( helicopter flying over )

No, no, no, no!

- ( Banks laughing )
- You mad bugger!
You mad bugger!

( both laughing )

Ah, how are ya?

Ahh, I'm knackered.

- Sorry, Arron.
- I can't be angry at you.

Come on.
Let's have a drink.

Farage:
I dunno.

Seven tries
at winning a seat,

and seven losses.

And now the party, too.

Stitch-up arseholes,
all of them.

I'd put my fist
down their throat

and tear out their spine--
only they don't have one.

- ( Farage chuckles )
- Stay. Lead.

I said I'd resign.

People come back from the dead
all the time.

Look at... Jesus.

He only came back twice.
It'd be my third.

But, you know, if...

...if I were to, then--

I'm-- I'm sorry to have
to ask this, Arron, but--

You want more money.

- ( pop music playing
in distance )
- ( laughing )

- He's back! I knew it!
- Well. ( laughs )

Now look, this referendum,

i-it's gonna be a Tory-led
Westminster operation

with us lot
being edged out-- me!--

and I've been,
my whole bloody life,

fighting for this,
and I can't let that happen!

And I won't.

All right. All right.

( sighs )

- Let's gate-crash.
- What?

- Let's make a right
bloody mess!
- Ohh! Ow!

( laughing )

- Freedom!
- Hey-hey-hey-hey, oh, yeah!

( both laughing )

( door opens )

( switch clicking )

( lights pinging )

( Carswell talking
in distance )

( talking,
indistinct )

- Hi. Hi.
- Victoria.

- Good morning.
- Morning.

- Douglas Carswell.
- I'm Victoria Woodcock.

( chatter continues,
indistinct )

Hannan:
Douglas, Matthew,

when shall we three
meet again?

Carswell:
And speaking of...

We'll have the entire apparatus
of the British state
against us.

They'll have the endorsement of
all the major political parties.

With their database
of 40 million voters:

who they are,
where they are.

Elliot:
Which we'll
have no access to.

We'll have to start
from scratch.

They'll get to set
the timetable,

- frame the entire debate...
- I know.

I need total autonomy
on the overarching philosophy.

- I did picture
a more collaborative--
- Absolutely.

We'll work out
the details.

Let's get started.

( chuckling )

Cummings:
How to change
the course of history,

lesson one.

Kill conventional wisdom.

Napoleon. Otto von Bismarck.

Pay attention, Douglas.
Alexander the Great.

This is where we
draw our wisdom from,
the true disrupters of Europe.

Socrates, Sun-Tzu,
Chairman Mao.

Woodcock:
That's all very well,

first, we need to win
designation.

Only one group gets to campaign
as the official "in,"
one as the official "out."

- Then we test our messages
with focus groups.
- I've already done it.

What is it you don't like
about European Union?
Is it the size of it?

What is it you don't like
about the EU?
What is it you don't like?

What about it?
The fact that it's over there?

Do you know who your MEP is?
Do you know what
an MEP does?

- Didn't know you had an MEP?
- You can't just go to a pub,
Dom.

There's a science to it.

What about immigration?

- Is it immigration?
- Is it immigration?

You can be honest.
Is it immigration?

What about immigration?
Is it race?

Is it different races
not mixing?

Is it race?
Not being integrated?

People are feeling angrier,

left out, ignored. What else?

Don't think our kids
will have a better future
than us.

Children... legacy...

Do you think there should be
a cap on immigration?

- Is it the numbers?]
- You think it's too many, too?

We spend more time
than ever online,
but we feel more alone.

- Cummings: Ain't that
the truth, Douglas?
- Uh, er...

Is it the type of people
they're bringing over?

- Think it's too many?
- What's too many for you?

You don't believe the numbers?

Think they're not
being counted properly?

You don't feel
you can trust the figures?

We're not getting married
as much.

Less of us have faith.

We're not saving as much.

Trust less the institutions

and people our parents trusted.

Except the NHS, which we love.

But think
it's fundamentally fucked.

National Health Service.

- Which countries don't you like
that have already joined?
- ...that have joined already?

- Why not?
- Why not?

Why not?

And who don't you want
to join next?

Who don't you
want to join next?

Wh-Why don't you want--

- Why?
- Why?

Why not?

Why? Why don't you?
Turkey.

- So it was...
- America, '92.

Campaign that changed
all campaigns.

First of Four Fundamentals
to win, Vicks?

- Um...
- Hello?

"Message...
discipline."

Lost of national identity.
Clear...

- Is it sovereignty?
- ...digestible...

- Loss of community.
- ...support.

- Independence?
- Message repeated

over and over...

and over.

How did we get into this?

( whispers )
What's our message?

What is our message?

What's our message?

What's our message?

What's our message?
What's our message?

What's our message?

Can't just be a slogan.
We need to capture a feeling.

What's the feeling?

My father used to work
on a rig. Oil.

( rain pattering on window )

All those pockets of energy,
hidden...

deep down in the earth,

built up over
long periods of time.

Groaning, moaning...

waiting for a release,
an outlet.

All he had to do
was find out where they were,

and start digging down...

open up the well
and let the pressure out.

We can tap into all these
little wells of resentment,

all these little pressures
that have been building up,

ignored over time.

We can make this about
something more then Europe.

Europe just becomes a symbol.

A cipher. For everything.

Every bad thing
that is happening; has happened.

It's brilliant.

"Take...

control."

I like it. Simple. Clear.

Empowering.

- Brilliant.
- Mm.

Carswell:
Let's get it out there.

Maybe. I dunno. Maybe.

Hannan:
We should start
sounding it out

- with our growing band of MPs.
- Why?

- Their experience in this
is invaluable.
- We don't need them.

We're gonna be
making decisions
based on science and data,

no matter how counterintuitive

to traditional
political thinking.

No advertisers,
no snake oil salesmen,
no fucking Saatchis.

We're gonna follow algorithmic
statistical analysis.

We don't need to put up
with any prima donna MPs.

- Understood?
- Victoria: Sure.
- Carswell: Sounds good.

We need to make sure
they're onside.
They are the face of politics,

and don't we want
as broad a coalition
as possible?

Also, Dom, I have invited...
a couple of them onto the board.

Cummings:
A "board"?

Ugh. I'll say.

Bored to death.

A boring board game of players

who should not be allowed
to pass Go.

Cummings:
These so-called
political rebels

who, for 20 years of failing
the Euroskeptic cause,

are still gonna sit here
and lecture me on how best
to win this war. You watch.

We wanted to share with you

some of our experience of
spearheading this movement

long before-- well, before
you came along.

That'd be great.

We'd love to hear your ideas
for the ground war.

Well, I'm more concerned with
the air war, actually--
digital, social media.

You mean the Facebook
and things.

- Yep.
- I can see you're into

all this newfangled
tech stuff, Dominic,

and I'm sure that has a place,
but the first step must be

reaching voters direct.

Old-school. Doorsteps.

Stalls in market squares.
Posters.

And for that,
you need the MPs,

as many on our side
as opposed to theirs.

They have the local knowledge.

Our focus will be on building
a digital system

that will provide us
with the empirical evidence

we need to understand
who our voters are

and what they want to hear.

I knew it.
I warned you.

I think what Dom means--

Mills:
Some of us have been waiting a
lifetime to get to this point.

Not to have it ruined
by some... geeky anarchist

who wants to show off.

( scoffs ) I just want
to get us over the line.

Something that MPs have failed
to do since this movement began

- over 40 years ago.
- Excuse me.

With respect, this referendum
is a really dumb idea.

- What?
- I think what we're
emphasizing here--

Referendums are quite
literally the worst way
to decide anything.

- Elliot: Dom--
- They're divisive. They pretend

that complex choices
are simple binaries,
red or blue, black or white,

and we know
there are more nuanced
and sophisticated ways out there

to make political change
and reform.

Not that we live in a nuanced
or political age, do we?

Political discourse
has become utterly moronic

thanks to the morons
who run it.

- Really--
- But there it is.

If that is the way
that it is to be,

then I will get us
across the line

in whatever way I can.
But in order to do that,

we have to restack the odds
in our favor.

- We have to hack
the political system.
- Hack it?

Like a cyber-hack.
Get in through the back door.

Reprogram the system
so it starts working for us.

You're all talking
about posters and flyers--

I'm talking about altering
the matrix of politics.

Elliot:
Dominic,
for the love of God,

you need to learn
to be a little more--

I don't suffer fools,
therefore I won't suffer
90% of politicians.

Frankly, I don't see
the point in them--

What the fuck?

Dominic, I'm so sorry,
they just barged their way in.

I'll leave you to it.

Farage:
So, chaps,

why the bloody hell
aren't we working together?

Hmm? Your campaign,
our campaign, as one--
unstoppable.

I've got call centers,
I've got money,

9 million quid I've donated
before the spending ceiling
kicks in, which I think

is the largest donation
in British political history.
Is that right, Nige?

Farage:
Yeah, that's right, Arron.

And what have you got?

Experience, expertise,

contacts in Parliament,
of course, the MPs.

Banks:
MPs are useless.
Fuck the MPs.

Farage:
Everything you've been
briefing on so far,

and not one mention
of immigration.

That's on purpose.
We don't want to bring--

Don't come over
all bleeding bloody hearts,
it's bollocks!

You know,
you turn up for five minutes,

and you think you know the lot.

Well, I have been fighting
for this my whole life.

And I know what lands.

People already know what
they think about immigration.

The people we're trying
to win over, the people
we need to win,

extend beyond UKIP.

Oh. So you don't want to make
the bien pensants

sitting around your London
dinner table uncomfortable?

We don't need 'em!
We need normal people!

We need 50% of
the entire country plus one.

Second fundamental of
running a successful campaign:

build a broad coalition
of voters. And for that,
you need to be respectable.

- No offense.
- Banks: 'Scuse me.

Let me tell you
who we're up against,

who are setting themselves up
over the river to destroy us.

Lucy Thomas, ex-producer
of BBC's Newsnight program,

so she'll know how
to handle the press.

Director of the campaign,
Will Straw, son of Jack,

failed his MP race in 2015,
typical establishment thinker:

"If it didn't work first time,
try it again."

You got Ryan Coetzee,
director of strategy,

he's Nick Clegg's
former special advisor.

Labour and Lib Dem
hate each other post-coalition.

- That won't work!
- Oh, yeah, no,

it's a proper left
and center-left love-in.

You've got the Greens
and the Welsh. But none
as interesting as these.

The one true enemy
they both share...

- Tories.
- The Number Ten machine,

headed up by--
trumpets, please-

( blows raspberry )
Craig Oliver.

Cameron's communication
director.

Position held, as we know,
by a long succession
of bastards--

Campbell, Coulsen.

This one's more
out of the limelight,

ostensibly in control
and composed.

He's furiously loyal
to his boss,

and I can tell you that we, uh--

well, we have a little history.

Dominic Cummings
is basically mental.

We had to all but ban him
from Number Ten.

He's desperate to be seen
as this visionary architect

of a New World Order,
but actually,

he's just an egotist
with a wrecking ball.

It does, however,
mean that he's...

well, he's unpredictable.

I know how to beat Oliver.

Conventional wisdom
is a disease

that the British
are peculiarly susceptible to,

and he certainly
hasn't been inoculated.

I want to be up front.

The PM isn't entirely sure why
all this shouldn't be run by,
and out of, Number Ten.

I'm sure you don't mean to imply
that you're here to give us
the once-over,

check us out?

No, that's exactly
what I meant.

Andrew Cooper.
Our chief pollster.

- Hello.
- Our lead strategist on
the Scottish independence ref,

- which we won.
- Just.

Which we won,
despite those final polls.

And the general election,
which we also won. Ditto.

So take comfort in that
we do actually know how
to win things,

which present company,
politely and respectfully...

Look...

we know there are historic
divides between us all.

But without getting
all Hollywood about

coming together
for the greater good,

that is basically what
we're gonna have to do.

I'm not saying
let's have a circle-jerk--

- Circle what?
- Jesus.

But this is about
as serious as it gets.

There's the danger,
which we saw in Scotland,

of having unleashed something...

which we can't then control.

Banks:
An establishment enemy

needs a people's army
to thrash them.

You need Nigel.

He should front the TV debates,
do the rallies--

We will be guided
by data and polling.

Nigel may be an asset,
maybe not.

We'll see. Nothing personal.

Banks:
Aw, fuck this.

It's a fucking
waste of space!

Christ.

( sighs )

That's a lot of money
walking out of the door.

That is a mathematical
paradox walking out the door.

Every time that Nigel Farage's
popularity increases nationwide,

the support for Brexit
decreases nationwide.

Puts everyone else off.
So, no.

But they'll be out there
anyway, gobbing off.

Wouldn't it be better to have
them pissing out of the tent,
rather than pissing in?

If we can control
their rhetoric on--

( keys clacking )

Oh, unless we get them
to do the heavy lifting
on the migration stuff...

and then we can keep
our hands clean.

That is a dangerous game,
Dom.

They're gonna do
what they're gonna do--
we'll do what we do.

- Parky! Where we at?!
- ( door closes )

- Morning, John.
- ( Mills mumbles )

How do.

I wasn't aware
you were a member.

I just joined.
What are the odds?

Would you like any assistance
with your hair?
Or just general--

No, no, no.
Fine, thanks.

Unless you can
help it grow back.

Why do you think your lot
will get the designation
over Farage?

He's the face
of the anti-EU cause.

But their arguments
will only reach a narrow base,

whereas ours,
we hope will reach everyone.

Banks:
How are you getting on?

- Your side.
- We shouldn't be talking.

Oh, don't be a dick, John.

Why the hell are there two
competing "out" teams,

both fighting
for the same donors, MPs?
It makes no bloody sense.

We should join together.

Cummings would
never allow that.

- Why not?
- He hates you.

Interviewer:
What are your expectations,
realistically?

Ideally, it would be
to create the biggest
political upset the world's seen

since the fall
of the Berlin Wall.

( camera shutters click )

Interviewer:
So what does your
campaign look like?

I'd like to think
it looks like an insurgence

against the establishment.

( pulse rate monitor beeping )

You're not looking
to be more collegiate,
respectful than that?

Why? It's a fucking war.
Total war.

In total war, there's only
one side left standing.

You'd be fine about bringing
down the Prime Minister?

He deserves to be brought down.
Prime Minister's crap.

Are you reading this?
I don't mind him having
the odd bit of publicity,

but hell's fucking bells,
he attacked the PM!

Does he not know
there are things you do not do?!

Does he always have to be so--

you know...

- himself?!
- ( beeping faster )

( low chatter )

( telephone ringing )

- Hello?
- Hannan: Matthew?

It's Dan. We need
to talk about Dom.

( no audible dialogue )

( bicycle bell rings )

( children laughing
in distance )

Man:
Dominic.

Zack Massingham.
Aggregate IQ.

I was pleased
to get your message.

We've been trying
to get in touch
with you, actually.

Really?

You were surprisingly
hard to find online

for an online
analytics company.

Not really in the business
of advertising what we do.

Which is what? Just so that
I'm absolutely sure
it's what I need.

Technically, we use
sophisticated algorithms

to micro-target populations
in political campaigns.

The other side has
a voter database
that I don't have access to,

and I need to build my own,
find voters,

and target them
with our ads.

We're becoming a little more
sophisticated than that now.

Arron...

this is Robert Mercer.

An old family friend,

and an investor in, well,
all of this.

Nigel, good to see you
again.

Mercer:
London was always
going to be a key front

in our cultural war
against the political class.

Feels like something's
coming, doesn't it?

Banks:
Fuck, I hope so.

I should introduce you
to Steve.

Steve Bannon.
Chairman of Breitbart.

He's also on the board of one
of my other little projects.

A data mining company-
election specialists
combined.

It's new.

Just been working
on Ted Cruz's campaign.

When we began,
he was only polling 3%.

We got him up into the 40s--
an unprecedented leap.

Simply through behavioral
micro-targeting--

finding where the voters
you can convert are

and knowing the messages
that will convert 'em.

( chuckles )

Silicon Valley, eh?

- It's my kind of people.
- No, no, no.

They're Brits.
Cambridge Analytica.

And beyond.

...went to a refugee camp
in Lebanon,

and he said,
"You must understand

that 2% of these people
are Jihadi activists."

Now, that's the truth.

Mercer:
Money is one thing, Mr. Banks,

but data is power.

You see, this is all
just beginning.

Massingham:
Technology's moved beyond

"You like this,
so you might like that."

Internet algorithms
learn about our behavior,

our psychology, even,
our emotional state.

These social media platforms
know what questions
we're asking,

what keeps us awake at night,
when we sleep, where we go,

who we go there with,

and therefore the system
can make predictions.

And does.

Embarrassingly
accurate ones.

Such as?

OK, so, like...

Facebook knows
when you're falling
out of love with your partner.

Yeah.

It didn't mean to discover it,
wasn't its intention,

but two billion people
constantly inputting

into the database
a dozen times a day?

Patterns form.
Behaviors overlap.

So what, it just...
targets or micro-targets
your message, that's all?

Not just all.

See, what it means

is that we can design
and distribute

thousands of different adverts
that vary,

depending on who
we're sending them to.

So your timeline
will be slightly different

to your friend's,
your mum's, and so on.

And our software can test
how effective certain ads
are on certain people

in terms of liking,
clicking, sharing,

and then learn
how to adapt them,
to improve them.

In real time.

In real time?

Mm-hmm.

What's in it for you?

Truthfully...

our problem is that...

we haven't found
a large enough test case yet

to understand
this technology's
effectiveness.

A decent sample size.

So we're just a trial,
is that all?

What, British democracy
is a lab experiment
for a greater prize?

Blanket advertising's dead.

We're updating
and uploading all the time,
by choice.

Teaching data companies
and advertisers

exactly who we are
and what we want.

Look, it was Obama
who led the way on this--
a liberal.

It's not about
right versus left--
it's about old versus new.

- ( laptop keys clacking )
- ( children laughing )

This is the new politics, Dom.

This... is how you will win.

- ( knock on door )
- It was entirely made
of rubber.

( laughs )

Jenkins:
Hello there. Come in.

- Elliot: How are you?
- Nice to see you.

- Elliot: John.
- You can sit over there.

- Tea?
- Oh, yes, please.

- Milk? Sugar?
- Uh, spot of milk.

It's not just
his me-me-me-ness,
Matthew.

Fact is, his personality
alienates people.

Jenkin:
David Cameron called him
a "career sociopath."

D'you know, when he visits
various Whitehall departments,

he signs in
as "Osama bin Laden"

just for the sheer--
I don't know.

He's just-- He's so--

- He's so annoying.
- Inappropriate.

Yes, yes, he is.
Annoying.

Do you know, Andy Coulsen,

the bloke in jail
for phone hacking,

he thought Cummings
was too toxic
to win broad support,

Andy Coulsen!

I know Dom can be,
uh, unconventional,

but there is no one better
to rally the troops.

You, Matthew.

It has to be you.

Massingham:
You're only talking
about locating people

that the other side already
have in a government database.

You're thinking
way too small.

No one's ever accused me
of that before.

What about those
who are off the grid
and don't vote?

Social media platforms
are designed to find
like-minded people

better than people can.

Our system will locate
and target people

that no campaign
has ever targeted before--

people who don't
and have never voted.

Anti-establishment, angry--
your people.

Dominic, we have already
started to find them.

Three million extra votes--

- Fuck off.
- All of them yours

that the other side
have no idea exist.

Where's Matt?

( phone ringing )

- Hello?
- Mills: Cummings.

- Yeah?
- It's John Mills.

Wonder if you might
come over.

The board would like a word.

( sighs )

Cash:
Would you
take a seat, Dom?

I'm very busy. What is it?

Jenkin:
Dom, I'm afraid
we on the board

have lost confidence in you.

You've pissed off
just about every MP

that's been trying desperately

to support us rather than
that other UKIP lot.

And you seem to flout about TV

and the front pages of magazines

primping up controversy--

Thank you,
Bernard.

Look, what I think
we can all agree on

is that the in-fighting
has to stop.

And if that means changes
to the structure
of the campaign--

Basically we'd like to offer you
a lot of money

just to quietly
step to one side.

Stay on as a consultant,

and let others take
more of a lead.

- And Matthew?
- This is the decision
of the board.

Cummings:
They're scared.
This is rushed, poorly planned.

What do you think'll happen
to my senior staff
over the river?

- What do you mean?
- They'll walk.

It's your patriotic duty
to tell them not to, Dom.

They'll do what
they want to do, Dan,

because they are
intelligent people.

Unlike you and Matthew,
they know how to run a campaign.

You will lose
your campaign machine

and you will lose
your designation.

Well, what do you suggest
we do about that, hmm?

You don't know
what you're doing,
do you? Any of you.

( laughing )
This is embarrassing.

You've committed
the classic cardinal sin
of any failed coup--

you didn't secure the support
of your military first

and you didn't seize
the state broadcaster.

- ( texting )
- What are you doing?

Cummings:
In about 30 seconds,

you will start receiving
notifications

from the WhatsApp group--
staff resigning.

Ohh, no, no,
w-wait a minute, Dom.

Hell's fuckin bells!
We-- This is a private meeting!

- You can't just--
- Just did.

( phones all buzzing, chiming )

Could we all just
stay calm and not--

- I'm calm.
- ( Cash stammering )

Cash:
It's not just your attitude.

It's the strategy
you're putting together.

Where's immigration?
Where's the bloated bureaucracy?

The supranational institutions--

That's too nebulous,
too complicated,
it's too remote.

This campaign is gonna be
about costs and control--
that's it.

We know whereof we speak,
Dom.

No, you don't.
You're wrong, wrong,

wrong, wrong, wrong!

How it costs,
and regaining control!

Costs and control!

Costs and control! Get it?!

See? This is what
we have to deal with.

And while I'm at it,

when we gain the designation,

and the £7 million
spending limit,

I would like to spend
£3.9 million of that online.

( laughing ) You're treating
this like it's a game, Dom!

- Your private plaything!
- We have this contract
for you to sign.

- Just look it over, and--
- No.

But-- there's--

We have lawyers
waiting next door--

Not lawyers! Oh, fuck!

If you don't like the way
I'm running the campaign,

- you can leave.
- Cash: Us?

But-- No, this is
about you leaving.

Well, I'm not,
so you can go.

Elliot:
I think perhaps a compromise.

Dom, you don't like
dealing with MPs,

they clearly don't like you,

I'm happy to do that
from now on.

And if we could just be
a little more, um, discreet

with our tweetings
and our utterances,

I-I think
that could help.

That-- That would be
a help, yes.

And if you would be willing
to share the strategy side
with us, Dom--

No. No. Complete
independence or nothing.

Well, then, you can't
be on the board,

because the board will need
to hold you to account.

Fine! Then I think
we need a new chair

if things are changing
on the board.

A fresh start.

Cummings:
Right.

( phone buzzing )

- So, is he gone?
- He didn't go.

- Stop it.
- I did.

Fuck off!

What? How?

I'm not sure.

( disconnects )

( mouths word )

C-Continue.

Continue.

Hiya.

Fuck.

Why don't people like me?

Oh...

I like you.

Come here.

( grunts )

Well, at least
they will remember you.

That's something.

He's kicking.

Like his dad.

Mmm.

That was corny.

( chuckles )

A very good evening to you,
and welcome to BBC News.

Vote Leave
and Britain Stronger in Europe
have been designated

the official Leave
and Remain campaigns
in the EU Referendum.

All:
...two, one...

( all cheering )

( cheers, applause )

News Anchor:
And we're off!
The ten-week countdown

to the referendum
has begun in earnest
with the designation

of the two campaigns.

Stronger In,
backed by the Prime Minister,

Jeremy Corbyn, and almost all
mainstream parties.

On the Leave side,
Vote Leave,

which contains
six cabinet ministers

and 140 conservative
parliamentarians.

Carswell:
Vote Leave, everyone!

Vote Leave!

( laughter, applause )

News Interviewer:
What were your thoughts

when these decisions
were announced?

Female Interviewee:
There have been
real divisions...

Fuck 'em.

...campaigning for
the UK to leave.

Now we're free
from any constraints,
do what we like.

It's more fun
being the outsiders.

Interviewee:
...campaign to leave the EU.

Well, he was on
the losing side today.

Turn it off.

...campaign with some others

because he says he thinks
the issue of immigration is--

( sighs )

We also know the other side
are gonna run a campaign

the way that campaigns
have been run

for pretty much
the last 70 years.

They're gonna fight
from the center,

make it about jobs
and the economy.

We focus on
the economy and jobs.

The message: Leaving risks both.

Clinton '92.
Best campaign ever.
"It's the economy, stupid."

You define your opponent
as the riskier option,

and though the change candidate
might initially poll well,

come election day,
the nerves kick in,

voters revert back to center.

Law of political science.

If the status quo are ahead
before the campaign begins,

which we are, they always win
on the day. So..

So what's our answer?

Tzu's "The Art of War."

If we fight them
on home terrain,

they will win.

So what we need to do is lead
them to ninth battlefield,

the deadly ground where no one
expects to find themselves.

Outcome: they perish.

Which means?

You reverse the proposition.

We make them the risky option.

To stay is to risk losing more
of the things we cherish.

We're asking voters
not to reject the status quo,

but to return to it--
to independence.

How much does it
cost us each week
to be members of the EU?

- In the region of about--
- Our researcher's name?
- Richard.

Ricardo, will you get me
all the figures up
for how much it costs

to be members of the EU
for a week?

- Largest one wins.
- Elliot:
Make sure it's verifiable!

Lucy Thomas:
Focus groups.

Finding out who we are,
and what do we like.

So we can segment and target.

First, the easiest.

We have the Ardent
Internationalist.

Eleven percent
of the voting population--

support gay marriage,
degree-educated,

going to vote Stay
no matter what.

Then the other end:
the EU Hostiles.

Facilitator:
Hello there. I'm Jude...

Similarly,
eleven percent.

- Won't you take a seat?
- Generally retired,

mortgage-free,
and 98% white.

Won't change either.

Cooper:
And then we have
our Comfortable Europhiles.

Own their own home,
gets their news from the BBC,

most probably Remain.

And our Strong Skeptics...

- I'm leading the session.
- Steve.

Hi, Steve.

C2DEs. Generally 55-plus,

"O" levels and no higher,
most probably Leave.

It's not rocket science,
it's simple. There are
three types of voter.

Those certain to vote to exit,
that's one-third,

they're in the bag,
so ignore them,

those certain to stay,
that's another third,

we can't touch them,
so fuck 'em.

The last third,
"I would like to leave,

but I'm worried about
what the effect will be
to jobs and living standards."

These are the only people
that we need to care about.

And trust me, the others
will be after exactly
the same bunch.

Now, these are who
will decide the result.

The "Hearts versus Heads,"
and the "Disengaged Middle."

Thirty-four percent
of the electorate.

"Hearts versus Heads"
are mainly female.

- Sandra Butcher.
- Hi, Sandra.

Thomas:
Get their news
from Mail online.

Their heart says "leave"
but their head is worried.

Disengaged Middles
are generally renters,

get their news from Facebook.

- Shamara.
- Hi, Shamara.

Would you put yourself
over there?

Thomas:
Most have never
given any thought

to the EU whatsoever.

Jude:
Who is very likely

to vote in
the upcoming referendum?

Show of hands?

OK, good.

Um...Shamara,

are you likely,
unlikely, very likely,
or don't know?

( chuckles )
I'd say likely,

but I just need
to get my head round--

"Don't know" for me.

Someone could convince me
either way,

then "probably," but--

So, what do you think of
when you think of the EU?

What does it do?

They make laws, uh,
for each country.

Laws over there
that overturn laws
over here,

only they're
not accountable.

Well, you do vote
for them... MEPs.

- I don't.
- Well... ( laughs )...

It's the courts.

It- Isn't it?

Um, they have, um,
the human rights,

which-- I'm sorry,
but things like

the terrorists
you can't deport--

It's freedom of movement,
isn't it?
Goods and people.

That's what
the old community
was for, right?

No tariffs, free trade--

Old community
was coal and steel,

and that's all
it was meant to be.

Now it's got too big.

Not people.
Not unlimited people.

That's not
what they meant--

It's for peace, though,
as well, isn't it?

After the war, to make sure
nothing like that happens again.

Which is, I think,
probably good? ( laughs )

Just to be, yam know,
I'm not saying ' it's wrong,

people coming,
different people,

it's just if we had,
like, a point system--

- No, no, no.
- Like Australia.

That undermines
the whole thing.

( overlapping speech )

What's the issue
that matters most then

when you're making
your decision?

Is it what's best
for the economy,

or is it control
over immigration?

- The economy. Every time.
- Immigration is not an issue...

I'd like to be able
to study abroad.

We need to appeal
to their heads--
numbers, projections.

We focus on the facts.

We need to appeal
to their hearts.

Emotional resonance.

their hopes, their dreams,

Their aspirations, their fears.

Their suspicions.

Now, these persuadables,
we need to learn about them,

love them,
and lure them
to our side.

There are more of them
out there than we thought.

Cummings:
Three million more of them
out there than we thought.

That's three million
potential voters

not on any voter database,

so Remain have no idea
they exist.

If we can reach 'em,
they're ours for the taking.

Elliot: Dom, what on earth
are you talking about?

I want less than ten people
on Earth...

to know what
I'm about to tell you.

We're gonna build something.

By the way, if anyone asks.

just tell them
you're a junior intern.

I'm serious.
Nothing more than that.

- I'm in my thirties.
- But you've got a youthful
Californian complexion.

- Canadian.
- Let me know
if you need anything.

What do you
think of it?

Eh...

- No. Not right.
Send it back.
- What?

Dom, we've printed
thousands of those.

It's not ready!
Burn 'em!

Hello. Sorry, Mr. Gove, sir.

It's, uh, Dom here.

I know you're
tearing yourself up inside,

but I really need
your answer.

Call me back.

( "Ode to Joy"
being performed )

( music continues )

( performance ends,
audience applauding )

( no audible dialogue )

Banks ( on TV ):
"LEAVE.EU"

is the real grassroots party,
OK?

And everyone should join us
if we're gonna win.

Exactly. We're the original,
and still the best.

Ultimately-- Look, I have
a simple view on this,

just like I have a simple view
on everything in life.

If you want to leave the EU,
you're on our side--

even if you think
you're on theirs.

- Farage: On the Remain side,
you mean.
- No, I mean Leave.

The other Leave--

( turns off TV )

( grunts softly )

( Scherzo from "Beethoven's
Ninth" playing )

Cummings:
To take something back

means it was-- is--
rightfully yours...

taken from you.

So much of our understanding
of who we are

comes from this nostalgic view
we have of our past--

these stories, these myths
we tell each other.

Normally I hate them,
they stop me from progressing,

but in this case,
let's use it.

The idea that we want
to return to a time

when we knew our place,
when things made sense.

Fictional or not.

It's perfect.

Best start
taking it back.

( soft chuckle )

( reporters clamoring )

Reporter 1:
Michael. Michael.

David and Samantha Cameron
are your close friends.

Does this not feel a bit like
stabbing your leader
in the front?

Um...

it-- well, you know, um--

Th--The fact is,
if you must know,

I've been wrestling with this
for weeks.

This was the most difficult
decision of my political life.

But taking difficult decisions
is what politicians
are here to do.

Boris Johnson:
Yes, yes, exactly.

It's-- It's easy, to,
uh, easy to shirk them,

to, uh, to not upset
the, uh applecart.

It's a perfectly legitimate way
of playing devil's advocate...

- Who are all this lot?
- Matthew's idea.

Different outreach groups
operating independently.

Who's funding them?
Who's-- Who's coordinating them?

I think they're meant
to coordinate themselves,
I dunno.

Rules are sketchy.

Reporter:
But the versions of
your column, Boris,

including the one you wrote
in support of Remain?

Oh, look, now. It's--

It's as if none of you
have ever written a-- a--

a pros and a cons list
before, you know?

People do that
when they're about to do
something important, like,

uh, adopt a puppy
or something?

Uh, thank you. Thank you.
I think that's...

( all clamoring )

Well done. Well done.

Talking about the puppies.

Well, it's done now,
so c'est la vie.

David said-- he said
that if I get what I want
and we win,

this will destroy him.

He's probably right.

It is a game-changer,
so thank you.

All right, team, listen up.

Now the fight for Britain
really does begin.

We have our star endorsements.

( all cheer and applaud )

And...

and we have our message.

If you look on the server,

you'll find copies
of the war book.

Here's our message in a sheet,

here's our message
in a paragraph,

here's our message
in a sentence.

If you find a potential voter,

you hit him hard,
and if it looks like

they're gonna bend,
you don't just walk away,

pat yourself on the back,

you double down.

Hit him again
and again, right?

With £350 million,

and Turkey--

350 million quid
and Turkey. Again.

All:
350 million quid and Turkey.

- Again.
- All: £350 million
and Turkey.

Cummins: Again and again.

Show no mercy, all right?

Good! Yeah!

So go out there and do that.

Take Back Control!

( diesel engine roaring )

Cumming:
Yep...ta-da!

Wait, wait, wait.
That's the, uh--

- You're using the--
- We're combining the NHS

with the economy, with control.

But-- But the logo,
that's--

That's the actual NHS logo.

Are we-- Are we allowed
to just--

Imagine their faces.
( laughs )

If Jeremy Hunt wants to come
down here and try and peel
the label off himself,

he's more than welcome,
we'll have the cameras ready.

( laughing, patting hands
on bus )

Let's take back control!

Let's take back
control!

( Cummings giggling )

Terrific! Absolutely!

It's marvelous.

It's got air-conditioning
and everything.

- Three?
- Million, yeah.
Completely off the map,

rendering their current
poll projections pointless.

Johnson:
Holy moly! So you're saying

there's a cat
in Lucifer's chance

we might actually
win this thing?

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

We need to brief this.
Get it out there.

A great big psychological boost
to all those guys--

No, no. No. No.
No briefing.

A polling lead for Remain
makes them complacent,

means less voters turn out.
We keep it hush-hush.

And you really don't
have to raise your hand.

Oh, sorry.

I just wanted to ask
who they were.

- Data scientists.
- I'm a data scientist.

- They're technically
physicists.
- Blimey. Where are they from?

Prior to this they
were working as analysts
on the Hadron Collider.

And now you're here
to tell us what housewives
in Newport think?

- Bravo.
- Cummings: Fanfare, please.

For the first time
in a British election,

we've built some software
that will combine

your Facebook and your Twitter
with the electoral roll

and polling and canvassing,
all in one database

- that can be updated
and respond in real time.
- Fabulous.

- Really?
- I've no idea.

Woodcock:
Here are some of the ads

we've been developing
that are ready to test.

Look at this one
for the Euro Championship.

Cummings:
Football, not politics.
It's brilliant!

Woodcock: A chance
to earn 50 million quid

if you guess the result
to every single game.

The odds to win are
6 trillion.

The point is that
we can collect hundreds
of thousands of contact details

to get people out to vote.
It's like Twenty Questions--

with every click
we know you better,

so our ads
can target you better.

Gove:
And this one?

I thought we weren't
pushing immigration.

The software will tell us

what to push
and what not to push,
Michael.

To win. OK?

Massingham:
Right.

Ready to launch?

( deep breath )
Yeah.

Johnson:
Wh--What I will say,

uh, that these, uh--
it's obviously very important

we don't get mired in--
in personal politics

Oliver: This will just confirm
that tomorrow

we will be going strong
on manufacturing.

PM is in Derbyshire,
meeting at the Toyota factory.

David Cameron: You have
David Cameron on the line.

- It's Ian Duncan-Smith.
- I'm calling on behalf

of the Vote Leave campaign.

Captain: All aboard
for Britain remaining

in the European Union.

Gove:
This should be

an amicable contest
that's characterized

by mutual respect,

one that rises above
personal attacks

and stays true to that great
British tradition of fair play.

Nothing can dilute
our enthusiasm.

Hello, madam.
Vote Leave.

Hi there. EU Referendum.

Johnson:
Let's raise the level of debate

and--and have a fair fight.

Um, yeah.

mouse clicking )

( groans )

Hey. So, don't get mad,

just as an experiment, I set up
a fake youth Labour group

to campaign for Remain.

They're including us
on their email list.

- ( whispers )
You are kidding me.
- Not only that,

Craig Oliver
does a conference call
to volunteer groups

a couple of times a week,
and we have the dial-in code.

So what do you reckon?

Dom did say
double down.

( dial tones )

Automated menu:
Please enter conference PIN.

( entering digits )

Oliver:
...the next thing is a heads-up
on a press release...

And this is something
that the data team
are working on

called Spread the Word.

- ( phone ringing )
- Uh, sorry.

Mary, if I don't answer,
it's because I can't,
I'm at work--

All right, all right,
slow down, slow down.

What?

Dr. Ahmed, please.

Second door on the right.

Thank God.

- Cummings:
All right, darling?
- Mary: Yes.

Dr. Ahmed :As I was saying
to Ms. Wakefield,

the baby hasn't grown
since the last scan.

This could be for
a variety of reasons--

Just-- Just tell us
what it means.

What does that mean?

You know? Cause? Effect?

Dom.

With intrauterine
growth restriction,

it's very difficult to tell.

What we do is,

we measure the length
of the spine

to see how well
the baby is growing,

and according
to our measurements,

your baby could be,
um, less than twenty percent...

( hyperventilating )

( no audible scream )

...the fetus,

and, um,
apart from waiting now,

there really is
very little we can do.

( keyboard clacking )

( typing continues )

So this is where you...
where you hide, is it?

( typing )

Do you mind if I pop in
for a moment?

( locks door )

Gosh.

Um...
uh, Dom, I...

- I heard about--
- The software's coming back
with new voters.

Thousands of them.

We should get out there
and test it.

Yes, but... ( sighs )...
you-- you should, um...

feel free
to take some time--

Let's go.

Carswell:
Ah, I don't know this place.

Cummings:
Well, it's in your
constituency, Douglas.

You've just ignored it
for years.

( seagulls calling )

Thank you, but I, um,
what if-- what if--

My face is quite recognizable,
maybe I should--

Look, either you believe
in this, or you don't.

If you don't, get back
in the fucking cab.

( doorbell rings )

( rings )

Hello.

- All right--
- Woman: What's he done now?

I don't understand.
How did you find us?
No one knocks on that door.

You're telling me that
no other political parties

have knocked on your door
during this referendum?

I'm saying no one
from a political party
has knocked on that door

since about the eighties.

( deep breath )

Could we persuade you
to register today,
do you think?

You can try.

Honestly, though,
I don't trust any of ya.

You look familiar, though.

Well, the first thing
we think leaving the EU
will help, is jobs.

Haven't got a job.
I never will again
round here.

24 years as a steel worker
all gone to shit.

- How ya gonna fix that?
- That is one of the industries

that's been most affected
by EU overregulation.

All of that red tape.

And cheap foreign labor
that's undercutting your wages.

Oh, yeah, I know.

They work for nothing.

People like me,
we get, like...

- We get squeezed out.
- Yeah, we get
squeezed out.

- It's not like
I'm against them.
- Wife: No!

But it has changed a lot
round here, hasn't it?

All our neighbors
have moved away,
new people come in.

My kids have
moved away too now.

Because there's nothin' here.

And I miss it.

I miss having-- having--

( sniffles )
Oh, you're gettin' me
all upset now.

Sorry.
We don't mean to pry.

Dominc:
You want to feel
back in control of your life.

Or the lives of
the people you love.

( wife clears throat )

Perhaps we could...
leave you with this?

Carswell:
Now remember, it's not...

it's not a parliamentary
election, it's a referendum...

where every vote counts.

And with your polling station...

- Cummings: The noise.
- ...just round the corner...

It's getting louder.

Much louder.

What does it mean?

What's it trying to tell us?

Now, you are on the front page
of the The Observer
this morning,

warning that a million people
may come here from Turkey

in the next eight years,
which is strange,

because very few people
expect Turkey to join the EU
in the next eight years.

We-- I do not think

that the EU is going to, uh,
keep Turkey out.

I think it is going to join,
I think the migrant crisis--

What I'm asking of
the world's oldest
public broadcaster

is an understanding
of the difference between
impartiality and balance.

What I mean is that
your nonsense bloody quota

of giving "equal coverage"
no matter what

means that we put up
a Nobel Prize-winning economist

to highlight the negative impact
on sterling if we leave,

and then you feel
you have to give equal weight

to some batty backbencher
who's just there to parrot

"Not true! Project Fear!
Take Back Control"!

Yes, well, it fuckin' better do.
I look forward to it.

( Oliver scoffs )

Thomas:
It's gonna be OK.

They've found a momentum,
but we'll counter.

We just have to stop
falling into their trap.

They say something
utterly ludicrous,

like, "Turkey will join.
We can't stop them."

Then we drop what we're doing
to counter with the truth,

when what we're actually doing
is just helping them

by spending the rest of the day
saying, "Turkey, Turkey, Turkey"
on the radio.

It's grenade after grenade.

They lob one over here-- bang!

We go over to put out the fire.

They lob one over there-- bang!
Over we go!

It's guerilla warfare.

They can say literally
anything they want
with zero consequences

because they're not
the government, whereas

we take
a bloody millennia to sign off
a sodding Twitter meme.

It's kind of genius
in a way.

You know what? I'm beginning
to lose patience with
this common misconception

that Dominic Cummings'
pseudo-intellectual bullshit

is anything other than...
pseudo-intellectual bullshit.

Anyone can start a fire.
He's not the Messiah!

He's a very naughty...
fucking arsehole.

I took a leaf
out of your book, didn't I?

- Yeah, what?
- They tested the data.

It's fine. An anomaly.

- He's fine!
- Oh, God...

( kissing )

- You sure? You sure?
- Yes!

( kisses ) Oh, God.

( laughs )

News anchor:
But this is a bank holiday,

we'll be talking about
whether hedgehogs

could derail
the government's plans
for HS2.

BBC News is read by Zeb Soanes.

Soanes:
Ministers have begun moves

to change tipping practices
in bars and restaurants....

Why aren't we getting
any pushback from this?

Why aren't journalists
hounding us about it?

The metropolitan commentariat
are not our target,

so they're not seeing our posts
on their timeline.

So they have no idea
what the rest of
the country's seeing.

So no one's
reporting it.

Feels dangerous,
doesn't it?

( sighs )

Oliver:
Girls!

This is the last time!

TV off, come and eat!

I've made you some...
lovely supper.

OK, now, remember that
Daddy has to speak very, very
quickly to the Prime Minister,

so you and your friends
are gonna eat really,
really quietly...

- Girl: I don't like this.
- and be good. Right? Right?

( dialing )

- ( phone ringing )
- Woman (on phone):
Prime Minister is on.

- Hi, D.C.
- Hi, it's Dave,
how is everyone?

- Thomas: Hi, David.
- Cooper: Andrew Cooper here.

The Labour MPs I have
coming back from the doorsteps
are spooked.

Our lines on jobs, the economy--

- voters don't wanna hear it.
- I know. I can't--

Cameron: What are the polls
telling us?

It's all over the place,
it's like there's a gremlin
in the machine.

But they seem to be cutting
through to the undecideds.

Cameron:
Do we have a strategy?

We have to have a response,

a positive argument...
on immigration.

That's them leading us
onto their turf.
It's a trap.

Thomas: We can't
ignore it anymore.

Something...
is going wrong here.

Cameron: All right.
Nothing to lose, I suppose,

apart from
the European alliance

and even the United Kingdom
itself.

Too soon?

( kids laughing )

( crowd cheering )

( cheers, applause )

Really good to see you.
So good to see you.
Thank you for coming out.

Cameron:
I think we are better off in,
I think we're stronger in,

I think we're safer in.
Better off. Safer. Stronger.

- Let's take back control!
- Take back control.

- Take back control.
- Take back control.

We take back control
of our money, our laws,

and, of course, our borders.

Thomas: Who thinks
we should remain?

The IMF, the World Bank,
the Bank of England...

...the real risk
to Britain's economy.

A bomb under our economy.

The people of this country
have had enough of experts...

- Man: It's just
scaremongering.
- Man 2: Project Fear.

- Scaremongering.
- Project Fear.

It's government-sponsored
fiction

claiming that Brexit
will cost us £4,300.

Does Project Fear
know no bounds?!

Cameron: Don't throw away
your children's future.

Farage: The EU has made
a fundamental mistake

which is affecting
the security of all of us.

They swept across the continent.

( angry chanting )

The Leave campaign
is now trying to stir up
prejudice!

You might as well
just hang up a sign that says,
"Terrorists welcome."

It's been Project Hate as far
as immigration's concerned.

Farage
They're not refugees,

they're economic migrants,
and there's a difference...

Leaving Europe
will be bad for the NHS.

70 million Turks...

Unprincipled fiction!

They lied about
the costs of Europe.

They lied about Turkey's
entrance to Europe.

Why on Earth did you risk this?

...racist,
because they're British!

Our daughter couldn't

get into her school!

Let me finish, Christine.

- ( woman yelling )
- Christine, let me
make my point.

How are we going to pay
for the National Health
Service--

Christine:
You are not paying for it now!

The mayor's just got in
and said there's no money

to build these
50,000 homes that he said

he was gonna build.
There's no--

Thank you, thank you. Gosh,
I feel like a bloody rock star.

I can't believe
how whipped up everyone is.

I knew you were
one of the good ones
off the telly.

You know, saying what
the people really think.

Thank you. Thanks.

70 million Turks
coming over here.

I mean, it's just--
It's frightening.

Well, yes, uh--
We don't actually know
how many or when or--

It says in your flyer, look--

Boris: Yes, well, that is just
the actual population of Turkey.

We should probably go. Sorry.

Yay!

( bus honking "Let's Go"
by the Routers )

( cheering )

( cheering and honking
continues )

It's schools, hospitals
not coping because--

Yeah, yeah, but come on.

Hospitals would totally collapse
without migrant workers.

Roger: Then give those jobs
to British workers.

Oh, come on.

Tell them that unemployment

for British-born is dropping.

Say that.

But the argument
that migrants bring in

more in taxes than they
take out in services--

Yes, good. Now follow up.

Sandra:
But how much of their wages

are they sending home,
out the country?

Shamara: She's just said
they pay more in taxes.

- As long as they pay...
- Any more thoughts on that?

That's it, I'm going in...

Craig, that breaks the whole--

She's not testing our arguments.

Okay, that-- yep, that--

Oliver:
Yeah, sorry to interrupt.

Sorry, who are you?

The hard facts, right?

The treasury receives

a net benefit of 20 billion

pounds a year from EU workers

paying into the system,
growing the economy,

that's after using public
services, so they are paying

for more care,
more teachers, more--

That's not a good thing?

Yes, no one's saying
that's not the truth.

Sorry. How much are we
paying to be over there? Yeah.

Three hundred and fifty million!

OK, so have none of you

heard our messages on--

That 350 million
pounds... is a lie.

- You would say that--
- No!

It does not exist,
it has never existed,

a check for that amount
has never been signed.

- We will not get it,
if we leave.
- Project Fear.

What will happen,
is that our, our currency

will collapse,
and the economy will contract.

How do you know that?

You lot get things wrong
all the time.

I don't know
why we pay anything.

To be a member of the single
largest trading bloc
in the entire world!

What benefit am I seeing
from that where I'm from?!

I'd rather it go in the NHS
like they're saying.

Oh, you do realize--

This is, uh, yep-- bad.

People making these promises,
people you have never heard of--

"Dominic Cummings"!
That they're not elected,

they are not going
to form a government,

despite having made billions

of pretend spending
promises post-Brexit

that they have no power
or responsibility

to see any of it through!

OK, we could take a break--

Or Arron Banks
and his diamond mine
in South Africa

or Nigel Farage,
the old stockbroker.

Boris Johnson,
Jacob Rees-Mogg--

Yeah, they're gonna
be fine, aren't they?

This is all just a game to them.

A debating society.

But the risk to you
and your children--

There's no risk.
Come to where I'm from.

There's nothing to lose.

We've got something to lose.

Our age. You lot
have had your lives.

Excuse me. Had my life?

( indistinct shouting )

Take a risk! Sod it!
Thank you very much.

I haven't been lucky!
I've lost everything!

...because you are
nervous about people

with a different color skin
and different accent.

- Thank you very much.
- I'm sick of being called that.

What did I call you?
What did I say?

You know what you
were calling me!

- No, I don't.
- Racist! Racist! Racist!

( indistinct shouting )

Steve:
Sorry, she's right, all right?

- Hate crimes--
- ( indistinct shouting )

All right, it's true.
We can't say nothing now
without that coming on.

( indistinct shouting )

Aah!

- Look, there's no need to--
- It wasn't on purpose.

You can stand there all you like
and say I've had my life

coming from your big city.
The past few years

have been fucking awful
if you must know!

And all I hear all the time,

is "shut up, shut up,
don't talk about it,

don't mention it, ever!"

Well I'm sick of it!
I'm sick of feeling
like nothing,

like I have nothing,
like I know nothing...

like I am nothing.
I'm sick of it!

( sobbing )

Oliver: I hadn't realized,
and now it's too late.

Their campaign began
twenty years ago. More.

Newsreader:
...Brexiteers.

The slow drip, drip,
drip of fear and hate

without anyone
willing to counter it.

( news program continues )

Worse, we stuck
the boot in, too.

How many of us on this side
blamed Europe or the outside

when it was politically
convenient to do so?

And now? Now we're expected,
in a matter of weeks,

to begin pushing back that tide.

( news program continues )

Man: ...and you are wrong
and you're wrong.

Not one of you lot
look like

you have come out
of Southend-on-Sea.

So this is what we're
reduced to, is it?

Man: ...Essex. Maybe you, sir,
or you're London?

This is who we are...

( arguing indistinctly )

Newsreader: To the dismay
of remain colleagues,

Geldof's signals
were somewhat crude.

Newsreader:
On that breaking news,

reports of a stabbing
and shooting

involving the MP, Jo Cox.

Very scant information
at this stage,

but, according
to the press association,

their quoting an eye witness
that says that the Batley

and Spen MP has been
shot in the incident.

Jane Hill:
Details really are scant.

- Jo Cox is the MP
for Batley and Spen.
- ( phone vibrating )

We now that she is
involved in some way,

and we have been told
that she is injured.

But I'm afraid
that really is as much as

is coming through
at the moment.

- So some sort of incident...
- Oh, OK. Thanks.

...emergency services
at the scene.

Newsreader: She's co-chair
of the friends of Syria

all party Parliamentary group.

She was a strong advocate
for Britain,

stronger in Europe.

We're hearing that she was
at a nearby library holding a--

Police Commissionaire:
Just before 1:00 today,
Joe Cox,

MP for Batley and Spenborough
was attacked

in Market Street, Birstall.

I am now very sad
to have to report

that she has died
as a result of her injuries.

Before going
into further detail,

I would like to express
our deepest sympathies

to her family and friends

at this tragic time.

Jo was attacked by a man
who inflicted serious

and, sadly,
ultimately fatal injuries.

Subsequently, there was
a further attack

on a 77 year-old man nearby

who has sustained injuries
that are non-life threatening.

Shortly afterwards,
a man was arrested nearby
by local uniform--

Newsreader:
Cox was a vocal advocate of
Britain remaining in the EU.

She and her family had been
involved in campaigning

ahead of
next week's referendum.

Both the leave
and remain camps

have now suspended their
campaigns as a mark of respect.

Man on TV: She was an MP,
great campaigning MP
with huge compassion,

with a big heart,
and people are going to be

very, very sad
at what has happened.

Newsreader:
A moment for the country

to pause and remember
the service of one
of its youngest

and most promising lawmakers

as police try to establish
a motive for this vicious--

( hydraulics activating )

Strange week.

Yeah.

Drink?

Oliver: I didn't think
it'd be as bad as this.

- Oliver: You?
- No.

But then again, isn't that what
these types of questions do?

Force people into tribes?

Still, I think it should
be possible, vital even,

for a country to be able
to ask itself a question

and to be answered
without... all this.

Without such hate.
Without fucking death...

( sighs ) Yeah.

Seems it's moved way
beyond our relationship

with an economic bloc.

It's about the soul
of our country.

I worry that we
won't be able to heal,

that this has created--

Exposed, we didn't create--

A type of debate,
a politics that is...

unsophisticated, uncivilized,
and worst of all... unkind.

Seriously, though, you don't
worry about the long-term
repercussions of all this?

Of undermining
the very concept of expertise,
of independent authority?

Your "experts" had an agenda--

Based on their knowledge.

You're feeding a toxic culture

where nobody can trust
or believe anything.

That is not what I believe--

Nobody listens to each other,
they just yell.

- Well--
- And the loudest--

...be heard,
to give people a voice

- who've been ignored for years.
- You're inciting them.

Don't confuse me
with Banks and Farage.

They're the ones
who are inciting people.

How convenient
that you had them

to do your dirty work for you.

Have you ever really
tried to stop them?

You and your lot
have dominated politics,

political discourse
for decades, Craig.

And what have you
done with it? What?

You can't close the box,
Dom, once it's been opened.

This is the new politics now.

The way that we will conduct--

Change is exciting.

What's your edge?
What are you doing?

What have you found?

( scoffs )

- ( sighs )
- It's the sleep I miss.

- ( chuckles )
- I miss sleep.

God, I do, too. I miss sleep.

I honestly think
I had more hours a night

when my kids
were born than this.

( chuckles )

You're having a baby,
aren't you?

Yeah. What have got?
Two daughters?

Oliver: Three.

( exhales )

I think about it, you know.

About the kind of country
that they'll grow up in.

What is this?

A "think of the children"
appeal? Please, Craig.

I am doing--
I'm trying to get us ready.

The train coming down the tracks
isn't the one that you expected,

it's not the one advertised
on the board, well tough.

It isn't even the one
that I imagined.

But I accept it.
You can't stop it.

You're right.
There is a new politics in town.

One that you cannot control.

Be careful what you wish for.

You won't be able
to control it either.

- ( bell ringing )
- Barkeep: Last orders!

- ( bells chiming )
- Carol Walker:
Tis decision day.

After all the campaigning,
the rows and debates,

today, it is time
for voters to have their say.

Polling stations opened
at seven o'clock this morning.

More than 46 million
people have their chance
to vote today.

- That's a record
for this country.
- I voted to remain.

I don't think
there's any good reason
to stay in the thing.

Carole Walker:
The referendum is taking place

in every part
of the United Kingdom.

The polls are open
until 10 o'clock tonight, and,

once they close, it will be
at Manchester Town Hall

that the final result
will be declared

by the chair
of the electoral commission.

Good morning,
ladies and gentleman.

The total number
of ballot papers counted was

33,577,342.

The total number of votes cast

in favor of remain

was 16,141,241.

The total number of votes cast

in favor of leave

was 17,410,742.

( no audible dialogue )

( cheering )

You've changed
the country forever!

David Dimbleby:
And that's the result
of this referendum,

which has been preceded
by weeks and months

of argument and dispute.

The British people have spoken,

and the answer is, we're out.

( cheering )

If I may borrow from England's
greatest wordsmith,

- "From this day to the ending
of the world,
- ( cell phone ringing )

but we in it shall remembered."

- Yeah.
- Congratulations.

Elliot: I can't believe
we did it. It's amazing.

- ...brothers.
- ( cheering )

- Elliot: Dom, are you there?
- Yeah. Great.

It's great.

Elliot:
Look, I just wanna say,

I know we've our
own little wobble--

- I've gotta go.
- HQ: Dom! Dom! Dom!

( cheering )

All:
( chanting ) Speech!

What did we say
we were gonna do?

- All: Win!
- Man: Kill the CBI.

We wanted to take back control.

- What are we doing?
- All: Taking back control.

- What have we done?!
- All: Taken back control!

Come on!

( all cheering )

( cheering continues )

( sighs )

Farage: Honesty, decency,
and faith in nature,

I think now is going to win.

( crowd cheering )

And we will have done it
without having to fight

and without one
single bullet being fired.

Actually, one bullet was fired,
you moronic, little cunt.

( cheering )

( indistinct chatter )

And some people are now saying,
"that was wrong."

And that the people
should never

have been asked in this way.

I disagree.

( shouting angrily )

Johnson: I believe it was
entirely right and inevitable.

Indeed there is
no way of dealing

with a question on this scale

except by putting it
to the people.

In the end, this question
is about the people...

It's about the right of
the people of this country...

to settle their own destiny.

Sophie Rayworth:
Within hours,
David Cameron announced

he was standing down
as Prime Minister.

- Thank you very much.
- He said he'd stay

in Number 10
for the next few months,

but that the country
required fresh leadership.

( humming ) Right.

Cummings:
I can't hear it anymore,
can you? It's gone...

Elizabeth Denham:
Mr. Cummings.

I said, "If you
are the Unknown Soldier

in all of this,
the real puppet master,

and we're all living
in the future

you have imagined for us--"

This isn't my future.
This is crap.

It's all gone crap.

Elizabeth Denham:
So you were wrong?

Your predictions,
your optimism for life

outside the EU, it was flawed?

This is a-- well, it's gonna
be a multi-decade project.

- Multi-decade...
- ( committee gasps )

- Cummings: Yeah.
- I didn't see that
on the side of the bus.

( chuckles softly )

The vision wasn't flawed,

it's people that are flawed.

The politicians-- they did it
crap, they ruined it.

I said the entire Downing Street

operating system
needed overhauling.

But you weren't there, were you?

You were pushed out once again.

There is a systems failure

in this country
and across the West.

We're languishing,
we're drifting,

without vision or a purpose.

What do you do usually when
there is a systems failure?

You reset, and that's
all I did. I reset.

And what did they do,
what did all of you do?

You rebooted
the same operating system.

The same tired old politics
of short-termism,

and self-serving,
small-thinking bullshit.

But are you not part
of the same culture,
Mr. Cummings?

- Nope. Well--
- Of half-truths, easy answers--

- False promises?
- Yes! Yes!

Don't think that I don't know

I'm as bad as the rest of them.

That that's what
the system does,

the virus, it infects.

But I was hoping,
just praying that someone--

anyone with
the minimalist amount

of even a fucking modicum,

an ounce
of imagination or vision

or, Jesus Christ-- aspiration

could see that there was
the opportunity for...

something to,
to actually happen...

for someone to step in
and do something

to make a change
to, to... to just...

( sighs )

( Cummings sighs )

Are you done, Mr. Cummings?

( sighs )

Yeah, I'm done.

We're all done. Thank you.

( music playing )