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Originally Posted by Osem
It means what I said - that a campaign group can't make promises which only a government can. Simple. You can call it what you like but it wasn't a promise. We've been over and over this time and time again and there really is no point carrying on. The figure quoted is clearly debatable but whatever the number, the sentiment was and is the same - the money we send to the EU can be spent on the NHS instead. Clearly the government of the day would need to decide that and any successor government could choose to reverse it if they so wished.
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But members of the Leave campaign work for the government as well and voted against an amendment to fulfill this ambition, suggestion, idea, whatever it's called. That included Michael Gove and Boris Johnson -
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a7570591.html
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Still struggling on corrupt practices by the EU by the way. Are there any examples of corrupt practices performed by the EU out there? Certainly there doesn't seem to be any systemic bribery culture as far as I can find and I am sure people have looked for it.
I did find what initiatives the EU have put in place to fight corruption which explains why EU tenders I have helped complete are a right pain -
https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/wh.../corruption_en