Thread by @PKBook22

Part 2 of my look back at Vote Leave's campaign "case".

VL - The former head of Interpol, Ronald K Noble, has said that: “Europe’s open-border arrangement… is effectively an international passport-free zone for terrorists” like “hanging a sign welcoming terrorists to Europe”

False: Vote Leave's own Facebook page on 27th December 2015 confirms Noble was specifically referring to the Schengen system countries.

The UK is NOT part of Schengen.

VL - We need to take back control of our borders so we decide who can come here – and who can’t.

False: The same Ron Noble, during the same speech said:

“Among the European countries that are not parties to the Schengen Agreement is the United Kingdom, which began screening

passports against Interpol’s database following the 2005 terrorist attacks there that killed 52 people and injured more than 700. The U.K. now screens about 150 million passports a year, more than all the other European Union nations combined, and catches more than 10,000 people

a year trying to cross its borders using invalid travel documents”.

(Vote Leave are good at omitting crucial details).

VL - The EU will continue to grow. The next countries set to join are: Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia & Turkey.

Misleading: "Set to join" is worded to give the impression these memberships are imminent & mirror false media narrative about Turkey.

None will happen until at least 2025, 9 years after the Referendum. Turkey first applied in 1987 & were/are nowhere near joining, even in 2016.

VL - Over half our laws are made by unelected EU bureaucrats in Brussels who we never voted for.

False: The House of Commons library records this figure as 13.2% and was available for reference had VL cared to look. (see attachment)

(Ignoring the unelected myth)

VL - The UK has been outvoted every single time it has voted against EU laws

Misleading - Up to between 1999 & 2016 the UK voted against laws passed in Brussels 56 times & been on the 'winning' side 2,466 times.

The number of losses increased after Cameron withdrew the Tory

Party from the European People's Party, to please the Euro-sceptics and as a result lost the UK considerable influence.

VL - The Eurozone has a permanent majority in the EU voting system - this means we’re always outvoted.

Misleading: In theory, the use of Qualified majorities

means the UK could always be outvoted.

However, in evidence to Parliament in 2013, the UK’s Permanent Representative to the EU, Sir Jon Cunliffe, said:

"In most areas, the alliances that countries make across different dossiers do not reflect the Eurozone. Across the single

market, some of the alliances can be very strange, but in agriculture, fisheries, single market, foreign policy and justice the alliances are very different. They are very dossier-specific."

VL - Taking back control is a careful change, not a sudden stop - we will negotiate the terms of a new deal before we start any legal process to leave.

False: This unambiguous pledge specifically rules out ANY chance of leaving the EU without an Agreement.

That went well!

VL - The EU is already planning its next power grab (see attachment)

Misleading - The wording on this page deliberately gives the impression these things are certain to happen.

These are not 'plans', but visions.

In reality, as with the 2012 'Four President's Report', due to

the widely varying wishes of members states, very little of the Report is likely to make it as policy, let alone implementation.

There's more than enough material in these threads to confirm Vote Leave set out to inherently mislead voters.

This was their PRIMARY "case", still

available as such on their website.

Note also, the ONLY reference to leaving without an Agreement (No Deal) is to specifically pledge to rule it out.

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