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05-06-2019, 22:55
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Re: Leadership who is the next PM?
It's even simple. A public servant was told repeatedly by the Office of National Statistics to stop using incorrect information. He didn't.
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“Having considered all the relevant factors, I am satisfied that this is a proper case to issue the summons as requested for the three offenses as drafted,” Judge Coleman said. “This means the proposed defendant will be required to attend this court for a preliminary hearing, and the case will then be sent to the Crown Court for trial.”
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It’s dead simple. We send £350 million gross to the EU; after that, regardless of how much is then spent back in UK, that spending is beyond the democratic control of the British people or their representatives. It is perfectly acceptable for a political campaign to point out that we are losing control of a sum of money and to propose that we re-take control and make our own spending decisions.
What I think has really triggered the hard remainers of the (mostly) liberal, metropolitan left, is that the Leave campaign had the sheer nerve to invoke the sacred name of the NHS on the side of the bus. The NHS, as we know, is a sacred cow, that must not be used to try to persuade voters about anything, except of course if you’re a Labour politician trying to persuade people how nasty Tories are, in which case it’s fair game.
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It was a clever ploy which I'm sure you're aware of, Chris. Create a false figure for the contributions higher than we send. Remainers complain about this and all the debate focuses on the contributions we send the EU and not the value and higher GDP we get from being a member.
The NHS was a clever ploy too - use the logo without permission and make it apper that it was being endorsed by the NHS.
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05-06-2019, 22:59
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Re: Leadership who is the next PM?
Well, it’s a moribund argument now anyway. Perhaps the court process will throw up something that hasn’t already been said a thousand times...
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05-06-2019, 23:07
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£350 million a week doesn’t include the rebate
£350 million is roughly what we would pay to the EU budget without the rebate.
The rebate is applied straight away
The UK actually paid closer to £250 million a week.
So . . apparently, according to the ridiculous figures above, we're getting a £100 million rebate on money that we didn't even pay?
Any idea why we didn't just pay £250 million and stuff the rebate?
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05-06-2019, 23:27
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Tory leadership: Brexit deadline 'not fixed date' says Gove
Conservative leadership contender Michael Gove has said he regards the UK's 31 October Brexit deadline as "arbitrary" and is "not wedded" to it.
He told an event in London the UK must not be bound by a "fixed" date if it needs slightly more time to get a deal.
But he insisted any further delay would be a matter of weeks, not months.
Other candidates, including Boris Johnson and Dominic Raab, insist the UK must leave on 31 October whether it has approved a deal with Brussels or not.
The UK was originally meant to leave on 29 March. That was then pushed back to 12 April and eventually Halloween after Theresa May failed to get MPs to approve her withdrawal agreement.
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06-06-2019, 06:51
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Well in that case I am going to sue my employer as the annual figure that they state is my salary, is no where near what I receive in my pay packet.
They have been lying to me all my working life.
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Any idea why we didn't just pay £250 million and stuff the rebate?
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It’s not hard to understand, this kind of think happens on all kinds on financial transactions all the time. It’s Because £350M is what is on the books, the fact that they give us the £100m back doesn’t remove the liability from our ledger, as at any time the rebate could be removed so we still have to account for it.
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06-06-2019, 08:41
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Well in that case I am going to sue my employer as the annual figure that they state is my salary, is no where near what I receive in my pay packet.
They have been lying to me all my working life.
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It’s not hard to understand, this kind of think happens on all kinds on financial transactions all the time. It’s Because £350M is what is on the books, the fact that they give us the £100m back doesn’t remove the liability from our ledger, as at any time the rebate could be removed so we still have to account for it.
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06-06-2019, 08:43
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Full Fact have a good breakdown here: https://fullfact.org/europe/our-eu-m...ee-55-million/
I suspect the case will hinge on the claim we 'send' £350 million rather than we are 'billed' £350 million or the EU membership fee 'costs' £350 million send we literally do not send that amount at all. I think it was a lie and it's a bit silly to argue it isn't, no one truly believes that the claim was talking about a hypothetical amount especially since the claim was that the money would be available for the NHS which is clearly would not.
But to me this is standard politics. The Government also were involved in 'creatively' using numbers when they claimed it would cost £4,300 per household to Leave: https://fullfact.org/europe/4300-que...usehold-worse/
I don't think this case will get anywhere and there are troublesome consequences if it did. If this case actually goes ahead then you would every election litigated after the fact by the losing side.
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06-06-2019, 13:43
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Full Fact have a good breakdown here: https://fullfact.org/europe/our-eu-m...ee-55-million/
I suspect the case will hinge on the claim we 'send' £350 million rather than we are 'billed' £350 million or the EU membership fee 'costs' £350 million send we literally do not send that amount at all. I think it was a lie and it's a bit silly to argue it isn't, no one truly believes that the claim was talking about a hypothetical amount especially since the claim was that the money would be available for the NHS which is clearly would not.
But to me this is standard politics. The Government also were involved in 'creatively' using numbers when they claimed it would cost £4,300 per household to Leave: https://fullfact.org/europe/4300-que...usehold-worse/
I don't think this case will get anywhere and there are troublesome consequences if it did. If this case actually goes ahead then you would every election litigated after the fact by the losing side.
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I agree, there do seem to have been some weak attempts at defending an obvious lie.
But I think that a successful prosecution here would serve politics better and in the longer term, help remove some of the distrust of politicians.
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06-06-2019, 13:47
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I agree, there do seem to have been some weak attempts at defending an obvious lie.
But I think that a successful prosecution here would serve politics better and in the longer term, help remove some of the distrust of politicians.
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You do have to prove a lie and and that is going to be nigh on impossible to do in this case in a court of law.
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06-06-2019, 13:53
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You do have to prove a lie and and that is going to be nigh on impossible to do in this case in a court of law.
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I think one aspect is that he was told on multiple occasions by the Office for National Statistics to stop using that figure but he continued to do so. As a public servant, I guess that's the equivalent of someone in your compliance department telling you to stop doing something that's wrong and you continue doing so.
With MPs' expenses, Tony Blair's WMD Iraq situation, investigations into Islamohobia and anti-Semitsim in the two main parties and the Aaron Banks-Nigel Farage financial investigations, UK politics can only benefit from a successful prosecution here.
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06-06-2019, 15:09
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I think one aspect is that he was told on multiple occasions by the Office for National Statistics to stop using that figure but he continued to do so.
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Just because he was told not so use it, doesn’t mean the figure isn’t a matter of fact.
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As a public servant, I guess that's the equivalent of someone in your compliance department telling you to stop doing something that's wrong and you continue doing so.
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Again, doesn’t make the figure factually incorrect
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With MPs' expenses, Tony Blair's WMD Iraq situation, investigations into Islamohobia and anti-Semitsim in the two main parties and the Aaron Banks-Nigel Farage financial investigations, UK politics can only benefit from a successful prosecution here.
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Won’t happen, and out of that list Blair is the one that should have prosecuted the two don’ Even compare. Stating a factual figure v deaths of hundreds of thousands of people....hmmmmm
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06-06-2019, 15:49
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Just because he was told not so use it, doesn’t mean the figure isn’t a matter of fact.
Again, doesn’t make the figure factually incorrect
Won’t happen, and out of that list Blair is the one that should have prosecuted the two don’ Even compare. Stating a factual figure v deaths of hundreds of thousands of people....hmmmmm
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Damien has given Factchecking links showing the slogan to be a lie.
If you feel Blair has a case to answer then why not take out a private prosecution? The Boris one may have more success as it's not about something that happened some 16 years ago!
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06-06-2019, 16:06
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Damien has given Factchecking links showing the slogan to be a lie.
If you feel Blair has a case to answer then why not take out a private prosecution? The Boris one may have more success as it's not about something that happened some 16 years ago!
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06-06-2019, 17:31
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Re: Leadership who is the next PM?
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Damien has given Factchecking links showing the slogan to be a lie.
If you feel Blair has a case to answer then why not take out a private prosecution? The Boris one may have more success as it's not about something that happened some 16 years ago!
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Well of course Blair has a case to answer! Why pick on Boris?
It is a ridiculous prosecution brought solely in an attempt to block Brexit.
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06-06-2019, 17:52
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Well of course Blair has a case to answer! Why pick on Boris?
It is a ridiculous prosecution brought solely in an attempt to block Brexit.
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Why would prosecuting BoJo block Brexit? Most if not all candidates for leader of the Conservative Party are running on a pro-Brexit platform. As an aside, the leaver purists in the Conservative Party blocked Brexit effectively or we would have left on 29/3!
As it's a private prosecution, it's up to the individual concerned to decide whom to prosecute. I suspect they've done more due diligence on this than you and me.
If anyone feels another politician has a better case to answer - fantastic, but they will need to put their words into actions for it to happen.
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