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Originally Posted by Damien
The £350 million claim is highly misleading at best and a lie at worst. We don't send that and we control the money we do not send. The only people who claim it to be true are the Brexit camp.
Full Fact say it's false: https://fullfact.org/europe/350-mill...hority-misuse/
The UK Statistics Authority say it's false.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies say it's false: https://www.channel4.com/news/factch...-week-brussels
Even the Brexit-supporting Telegraph weren't defending it: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/eu...-fact-checked/
Now Boris chose his words carefully to say 'control' rather than the 'spend' they used in the referendum but I think that's just a typical weasel way politicians word things in order to seem like they're promising something they're not. 'Controlling' this money means nothing if 1) it's not really there and 2) you can't spend it. |
Its just very typical of a fair proportions of politicians nowadays who obfuscate on a regular basis to suit their own political ends but the bigger fools are the ones who believe what they say.