A rare glimpse behind the Brexit Facts4EU curtains

What does it take to do what we do - and to impact public opinion?

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And does our work matter?

What you are about to read is a Facts4EU rarity. No charts. No facts and figures diligently researched and checked from official sources. No comments on it from famous figures.

Why have we done this? Because we have to. And maybe, because this article is such a rarity you will be interested in reading what follows.

A glimpse behind the scenes… And what makes us different

When researching and writing each new daily report, we often need to link back to a previous report we have published on a related topic, to give readers the opportunity to read more if they wish. When looking for these we are sometimes mildly surprised how many detailed reports we have produced each week on a wide variety of subjects. We always find a fairly recent report we have produced on an aspect of the subject matter in question.

The full process involves far more than that, of course. For just some of what we do, here’s a peak behind the curtains…

Morning meeting – topics, evolving storylines, progress of reports in train, actions, likely publication dates

THEN:

In-depth research – official sources, other (countering) sources, government and political comments
Building spreadsheets, data summarising, cross-referencing, rough charts
Raw text, structuring, refining, first checking process
Full text, headlines, final charts/tables, photo sourcing (royalty-free, see below), title image (‘tile’), checking
First coding run, team review, approaches to politicians for comment, or to bodies referenced
Final edit, review, any comment included, final check, go live
Creation of social media posts, launching
Promotion to other groups and media
Constant review of comments on reports

The above is only a selection of some of the tasks involved in publishing a simple report. This does not include all the liaison with many different parties very week, production of videos when appropriate, and many other weekly activities.

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The facts give credibility - and credible information influences the public

Any independence organisation can - and does - write wordy articles (like this one!) making assertions about this or that, e.g. “The US is the UK’s biggest trading partner by far”, but it takes more diligent and time-consuming work to back such statements with facts researched from the official sources. And then to produce our famous ‘at-a-glance’ charts which tell the story for voters in a picture.

It is the facts – researched from official sources - which give articles and claims credibility. Without them we would be just another commentator. Without them we would not ‘shift the dial’ and inform and enlighten the public. Without them the public perception would continue to be subject to mis- and dis-information.

Let’s face it, the bulk of the messaging the public receive is sympathetic to - or actively in favour of – negative Brexit claims, woke nonsense, globalism, open borders, gender absurdities, Net Zero extremism, authoritarian lockdowns, etc. This ideological warfare is fuelled by vast sums from foreign billionaires and promoted by media organisations such as the BBC, Sky News, FT, Guardian, etc. All we can say is “thank heavens for GB News,” who cover our work on a regular basis.

Facts4EU.Org and other independence organisations

Faced with the almost daily onslaught from those promoting the viewpoints outlined above, who is taking this on? There are many pro-independence organisations, and some of these soak up all the significant donations by individuals of wealthy means. Often this is due to a reputation built many years ago and certainly no longer earned.

Without the Facts4EU think-tank there would be no organisation in the country with an arsenal of some 3,000 reports produced over the last 10 years. None of these other groups could refer back to detailed reports on so many topics in order to debunk wild statements from the Rejoin, woke, Net Zero, open borders, gender-bending, free speech-banning community, using concrete evidence.

"So why are you telling us this, Facts4EU?"

Despite our daily reports now appearing regularly on national television, we continue to rely on a relatively small number of donations from members of the public which are typically in the order of £5. We are enormously grateful to these donors, as every £5 adds up. Unfortunately there simply aren’t enough of these and we lose money every month. In practice this means that team members work for nothing, or for an amount far below the minimum wage. Inevitably many team members have been forced to go off and take paid work instead, which means they can then only help on a very part-time basis.

One of the major reasons we don’t receive more funding is because of the plethora of pro-independence organisations operating in the same territory. As we pointed out above, some have been going for years and their heyday is long past – but this doesn’t stop them getting their regular, large donations. Others have set up more recently and typically are run by those who ‘don’t mind the limelight’. No-one on the Facts4EU team has ever been interested in the limelight.

Unfortunately the situation is not improving. One new pro-independence post-Brexit group has just launched and we know of another on the way. All this does is fragment and dilute the effort and the effectiveness of teams which should be combining. In financial terms, the available money from donors is being diluted and spread over far too many organisations, many of which can show little actual output for this money.

“Why don’t you have a paywall?”

A large number of media outlets now have paywalls. Facts4EU has consistently refused to force readers to pay, in order to ensure that our important factual work reaches as many people as possible and especially young people, often with limited funds. We see the whole point of what we do each day - starting in the case of one team member at 2am - to be to get our information out to the maximum number of people.

So no, we will not install a paywall. All readers can read the report of the day free of charge, as well as the 29 most recent reports before this, by clicking on ‘news’ in the main menu.

“Why don’t you put advertising on the site?”

Yes, nice idea. Provided this isn’t too intrusive, we would be all in favour. We read many media sites – household names – where the advertising almost eclipses the content. Provided we can allow advertising in a limited, reasonable way, we’re sure readers wouldn’t mind.

The problem is time. It would take a bit of work to find out about the various digital advertising agencies and which are the easiest to deal with. Assuming we found a few good possibilities, they would no doubt ask us to produce all manner of data about our reader numbers, social media reach, etc.

Then there’s the technical side. We would presumably have to do some considerable coding to enable any advertising feed to appear where the advertisers wanted. Sadly, we lost our web developer a long time ago, as we couldn’t afford to pay him, so this would take some time to implement. And time is always our enemy.

Finally, after all that it might turn out that we would be boycotted by corporate advertisers and advertising agencies on political grounds, as GB News has been.

Where does this leave us?

Given all the above, we have had to scale back, from seven days-a-week, to five days-a-week, to three days-a-week. We hope you’ll stick with us!

If we hadn’t done this, we would have risked our survival. Thousands read our site every day. Thousands more watch our videos, and even more see us in the press and on TV. If more readers and viewers could just make that effort and donate to us here, preferably with a monthly amount, we would not have had to scale back and we could focus on our important work informing the public and politicians about the true facts on so many issues, which is what matters.

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P.S. At any moment in time, we typically have 4-5 major reports in various stages of preparation. Sadly, some of these never see the light of day, as the news agenda overtakes us and our limited resources have to adjust. A great shame, because it could all be so different…

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Reader Comments 8

1. Mr Sceptic , Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 08:24:

Brexit Britain is Broken.

2. John Jones , Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 08:35:

Thank you for this insight.
I've recently been blown away by some contemporary technology ( albeit aided by AI which does not hallucinate) to support the communication and content research of blog sites such as Facts4EU.
It's surprisingly cheap to use ( especially for content creators/editors) on a monthly basis and it's ability scour open source information & proprietary information ( with appropriate APIs) is amazing.
I'll direct message/mail you with ideas.
The message you guys put out is often very high quality - looking at the behind the scenes workflows with some minor tweaks might just give you an edge and even greater readership.

3. Prof Winn , Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 12:57:

Does the work of Facts4EU matter? It certainly does to expose the EU! It’s quite correct to say there are “gender absurdities.” For example, what is a woman? Firstly, let’s consult two definite sources. The Cambridge Dictionary of the English Language, woman (noun). 1/ An adult female human being. 2/ An adult who lives and identifies as female, though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth. This definition matters. Trans-gender women are universally recognised by science and medicine as women and the English language has adapted to reflect that reality. Then, modern genetics and neurophysiology. You can be a woman because you have X & Y chromosomes, but your body is insensitive to androgens and you have a female anatomy and gender identity. You can be a woman with X & Y chromosomes, but your Y is missing the SRY gene, so you have a female body & gender identity. You can be a woman with two chromosomes, but one of them has an SRY gene, giving you a male body, but a female brain/body map and gender identity. You can be a woman with XXY, or XXXY chromosomes, giving you a male body, but a female brain/body map and gender identity. You can be born as a woman with two X chromosomes, but adrenal glands that don’t produce enough cortisol, resulting in a male body. You can be a woman with XY chromosomes, but a mutation called CBX2 blocks the influence of the SRY gene. You can be a woman with a male body, because you have one of the several alleles (gene variants) of the AR gene, such as AR-ERB, AR-PGR, AR-COMT, or CPY17-SRD5A2, that result in an under-masculinised brain map. You can be a woman if you have 46,XY in some cells, but 46,XX in others, or 47,XXY. Modern science is how rational people resolve the differences of opinion. There are many different types of women. Society recognises and treats all these different types of women as women, even though they do not have the XX chromosomes, that some bigots insist define womanhood.

4. Prof Winn , Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 13:31:

Today, we do not refer to information in out-of-date books, but to modern biology and science. Genetically and biologically, there are many types of women. XX = women and XY = man is far too simplistic to explain the reality of what’s involved. Research on the brains of trans women, shows that the part of the brain determining one’s inner sense of gender gender identity - the instinctive feeling that ‘I’m like the women’ - is nearly identical to that of cis gender women and is very different from that of cis gender men. Trans women have female brains when it comes to determining their gender identity. They are women on the inside. In the end, society’s response to trans-gender people, comes down to its capacity for rationality, compassion and empathy. Trans women have female brains and therefore a female gender identity. A large part of their biology, brain and neurochemistry tells them so. They can suffer when parts of society refuse to show them respect and understanding and attacking them does no good. The only problem is a stubborn refusal to credit the science behind why trans people are trans. Trans people act as a litmus test for the core values of a culture. Many societies have honoured the inner identity of their trans members and with of course, no harm to those societies.

5. Gazzablack , Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 16:19:

4, prof Winn
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If 20 men and 20 women are shipwrecked on an uninhabited island, and 200 years later explorers come across that island, the explorers will find a vibrant perpetuating society.
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If 20 men and 20 trans women are shipwrecked on an uninhabited island, and 200 years later explorers come across that island, the explorers will just find the skeletal remains of 40 men.
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It really is that simple.

6. Robert Mcdonald , Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 17:02:

Gazza. Sums it up perfectly. But "prof" winn would blame the explorers for not being sensitive to the gender of the skeleton remains.

7. Gazzablack , Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 23:41:

The EU euphoria over the demise of Viktor Orban looks like it may be short lived.
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New Hungarian leader Peter Magyer REJECTS the EU migration pact.
"Hungary will not accept any pact. In fact, I'm going to reinforce the border fence even more"
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He also says "We do NOT support Ukraine's fast tracked accession to the EU"

8. Prof Winn , Thursday, April 16, 2026, 07:49:

To explain in simple terms, so people can understand the “gender absurdities.” Biological sex is hardware. Gender is software. Some people are born with hardware and software that don’t match. The software can’t be changed. You can’t edit it, overwrite it, or even reboot it. It’s permanent. But you can change the hardware, with things like surgery and hormone replacement. Trans people are simply asking to be allowed to upgrade their hardware to match their operating system. For those who aren’t dead yet, it might be of interest that the Not in Our Name (NION) women’s group, knows the subject, has thousands of members and fully supports trans people. For those who don’t support trans issues, they are able to find more support in countries such as Russia and Iran. The 100% Remain government plans to act on revised trans guidance following their local elections disaster and while deliberately damaging the economy, in an attempt to try and convince citizens the country would be better off as an EU member!

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