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Originally Posted by ianch99
I wasn't counting them, the BBC was. I guess you seem to joining them in making statistics say pretty much whatever you want.
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Which was exactly my point.
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Trying to big up the project you so zealously support is like putting lipstick on a pig. It is a failure as everyone can see apart from those who can still claim the Emperor is really wearing clothes.
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I’m not bigging anything up - I’m simply not minded to swallow, uncritically, whatever the ongoing pro-EU information operation is pumping out on any given day. The BBC newsdesk’s reflex is to make a bald numbers comparison that fails to stack up against 60 seconds scrutiny. Yours is to quote it uncritically because it affirms what you already believe to be the case (Kudos to you, though, for dropping it like a hot coal as soon as you saw it didn’t stack up).
We are outside the EU, that isn’t going to change for the foreseeable future, and it is going to take more than 2 or 3 years for it to become clear what the UK’s long-term regulatory environment and economic balance will be as a result of that. Though I guess I understand why obsessing over every development as it arises and insisting on evaluating it through an EU/Brexit lens may be cathartic for some.