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Old 09-11-2016, 11:44   #2554
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Re: Post-Brexit Thread

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Originally Posted by nomadking View Post
It wasn't £350m, it was MORE.
The UK doesn’t pay or "send to Brussels" this higher figure of £18 billion, or anything equivalent per week or per day. The rebate is applied straight away, so the UK never contributes this much.
https://fullfact.org/europe/our-eu-m...ee-55-million/

My point is that politics should not descend to the point where people know that the figures they are quoting are wrong but quote them over a period of time repeatedly. It's plain dishonest. We're talking of facts here, not opinions of what-might-happens.
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