Originally Posted by Chris

Hmm.



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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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.