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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
No one's realistically talking about re-joining the EU in the forseeable future.
But as people's disposable income is squeezed, I'm sure we'll start to read more articles like this one, ironically from the pro-Brexit City AM.
https://www.cityam.com/eu-membership...173m-per-week/ |
Hmm.
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Given these figures, the ONS said that the UK Government’s net contribution to the EU – that is, the difference between the money it paid to the EU and the money it received – was £11bn in 2018.
Compare this to the loss in exports to the EU. …
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Why? They’re measuring two entirely different things.
One is UK government payments to the EU; the other is (alleged to be) the cost to the entire economy from reduced exports. Apples and pears. Makes a good headline though.
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Originally Posted by Hugh
He’s been writing/reporting professionally since 2005…
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In which case he ought to know better than to simply regurgitate press releases, which is exactly what has happened here - uncritical parroting of material sent to him by the PR department of an international parcels company. Having been both a journalist and a PR officer, I know exactly how rigorously this has been “researched”.
This is a lazy piece of let’s-get-our-name-in-the-paper PR fluff, picked up by a lazy let’s- sack-this-off-and-get-to-the-pub hack.