[nomadking]

Originally Posted by Damien

Those two 'facts' were campaign pledges and were disparaged by the experts. Both of them were intentionally misleading people on the actual facts underneath.

£4,300 a year:



£350 a million a week:

The claim that the UK sends £350 million per week to the EU is wrong.



Of course both Remain and Leave cited 'experts' for their claims which is why independent and objective experts are more valuable.

The £350m was wrong. It is £376million.

The figures, from the UK's current account published by the Office for National Statistics, say that, before the application of the rebate, the UK's gross contribution was £19.6bn a year - about £376m a week.