Re: [Update] The UK votes to leave the EU
The cowardly sniping reminds me to thank the ignore list.
Let me make this clear: Leave won. Remain lost.
As soon as Leave won, I was one of the first to post congratulations.
However, when it is clear beyond doubt that the Leave campaign lied:
Eight reasons Leave won the UK's referendum on the EU
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2. £350m NHS claim gets traction
The assertion that leaving the EU would free up £350m a week extra to spend on the NHS is the kind of political slogan that campaigns dream of: striking, easy to understand and attractive to voters of different ages and political persuasions.
No surprise then that Vote Leave chose to splash it across the side of their battle bus.
The fact that the claim does not stand up to much scrutiny - the figure is calculated using sums which were disputed by the Treasury Select Committee and described as potentially misleading by the UK Statistics Authority - did not reduce its potency.
Remain campaigner Angela Eagle may have told her opponents to "get that lie off your bus" but polling suggests it gained traction and was the single most remembered figure from the campaign, with many people believing that money handed over to the EU to be a member should be spent in the UK instead.
In that sense, it served as a powerful illustration of how the UK could be better off outside the EU.
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What I had hoped for was that someone would do the decent thing and admit so much.
It seems not. I had expected more but I guess if you expect nothing, you won't get disappointed.
I am now going to get very drunk :) |
