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Originally Posted by 1andrew1

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.

What, like this "fact"

Leaving the EU would cost UK households £4,300 a year making them “permanently poorer”, chancellor George Osborne said on Monday, hours before the government publishes its long-term assessment of the economic costs of Brexit.

Speaking to the BBC on Monday morning, Mr Osborne claimed that the Treasury’s gloomy forecasts represented the economic facts

Balderdash!