When the cupboard was (almost) bare.

@openDemocracy forced the (so-called) #EuropeanResearchGroup to make their 'research' public after an #information rights tribunal ruled that as the ERG has been drawing #taxpayers' funds it cannot refuse access to its documents;

Of course, what this (further) confirmed is that the ERG's 'research' is nothing of the kind.

Now we can all see the actual sand on which their 'positions' rest, not that it'll be a surprise

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/tax-funded-research-by-rees-moggs-erg-must-be-released-tribunal-rules/

European Research Group Loses Two-Thirds of its Paid-Up Members

The hard-Brexit lobbying group, which produces research paid for by taxpayer-funded expenses, appears to be losing support.

The research provided by ERG staff members is supposed to be non-party-political. But the group and its members have been assertive in lobbying for a hard Brexit – maintaining that Britain should sever many of its political and economic ties with the EU.

Sam Bright @BylineTimes

#BylineTimes #Brexit #ERG #EuropeanResearchGroup #BrexitBrokeBritain

https://bylinetimes.com/2022/11/21/european-research-group-loses-two-thirds-of-its-paid-up-members/