Geoffrey Cox KC MP ✓

@Geoffrey_Cox

Conservative MP for Torridge and Tavistock. For reply, email tellgeoffrey@geoffreycox.co.uk

41 262Followers

573Following

1 795Posts total

287.4KViews on collected posts

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Geoffrey Cox KC MP ✓@Geoffrey_Cox5 Sep

@Geoffrey_Cox @nw_nicholas Exactly. Each time a Farage fanboy declares no crime was committed, they should take a good look at 61(1). I’ve heard only one BBC journalist point this out so far (@bbcnickrobinson interviewing Richard Tice) 7K views · 48 likes · 3 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Geoffrey Cox KC MP ✓@Geoffrey_Cox5 Sep

@Geoffrey_Cox It seems the police need all the unedited original video and audio recordings for analysis to prove any case then. Verbatim / CCR has a known history of using fabricated edits to create a story, as the US Congress can testify. https://t.co/KKc0O2v6x4

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Geoffrey Cox KC MP ✓@Geoffrey_Cox5 Sep

@Geoffrey_Cox So were the Channel 4 team permissible donors on the UK electoral roll, or not? If they were permissible donors, but were trying to dupe a political party into accepting donations, using foreign money (from impermissible donors) to do so, that would make them conspi 404 views · 3 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Geoffrey Cox KC MP ✓@Geoffrey_Cox5 Sep

@Geoffrey_Cox On this basis, presumably all the intermediaries named and 'bleeped' by Channel4 could have committed a criminal offence and be prosecuted? As well as those foreign nationals from whom the donations originated? 474 views · 4 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Geoffrey Cox KC MP ✓@Geoffrey_Cox5 Sep

Under the government’s plans to remove jury trial for offences carrying a likely sentence of imprisonment up to 3 years, the person would be tried by the magistrates court or by a judge alone. 22.1K views · 163 likes · 22 reposts · 10 replies Open on X →

Geoffrey Cox KC MP ✓@Geoffrey_Cox5 Sep

It is not necessary for that person to know the arrangement is or would be an offence or that he is breaking the law. The offence is punishable by up to one year imprisonment on conviction on indictment. It is an offence that is triable either on indictment in the Crown Court 21K views · 179 likes · 36 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Geoffrey Cox KC MP ✓@Geoffrey_Cox5 Sep

It is also an offence under s.1 of the Criminal Law Act 1977, to conspire to enter into such an arrangement or to facilitate the making of such donations. The person thus conspiring, entering the arrangement or doing the act must know and intend that he is thereby helping the 21.4K views · 189 likes · 35 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Geoffrey Cox KC MP ✓@Geoffrey_Cox5 Sep

A dry legal thread on Section 61(1) of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000, “Offences concerned with evasion of restrictions on donations”, which reads, 61.—(1) A person commits an offence if he— (a) knowingly enters into, or (b) knowingly does any act in 214.8K views · 646 likes · 240 reposts · 42 replies Open on X →

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8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views13 984this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %33.89%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.05%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	13 984	924	15.1×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	33.89%	3.62%	9.36×
Engagement rate	1.05%	1.52%	0.69×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

214.8K5 Sep

21.4K

21K

22.1K

474

404

329

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.45%5 Sep

1.07%

1.03%

0.89%

1.27%

1.49%

1.82%

0.80%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes67.7%1 234 in total

Reposts18.8%343 in total

Replies3.6%65 in total

Quotes2.2%41 in total

Bookmarks7.7%140 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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