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I thought I'd have a look at the FB targeted ads that have recently been published. We know that VL told porkies, but I wanted to see how much of their campaign was untruthful.
It seems that it was pretty much all of it. #VoteLeaveLied
Here's a sample of the worst offenders 1/17
We know that they targeted groups with their own special trigger messages & we know that they lied about the EU budget contribution (gross of Β£225m/wk, net Β£203m/wk), but Β£350m wasn't just on the bus ... it was pretty much everywhere in their ads 2/17
It started in their data capture con they used to get your information (Trump had Kogan & CA, VL used their Β£50m competition)
Β£50m/day = Β£350m/wk 3/17
Once they'd sorted out their target audiences, they started the targeted lying.
Concerned about industry of manufacturing? Have one of these
(are we spending that fake Β£350m/wk on the NHS, or industry?) 4/17
Are you concerned about animal welfare?
Have one of these 5/17
You might not have seen the animal welfare ads before, so you might not know why I say it's a lie. Here are a couple of links for you:
uk.whales.org/blog/2016/05/w…
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi… 6/17
Concerned about immigration? Well, have I got some lies for YOU!!
(in case you've not already realised this - BREAKING NEWS: Turkey is not joining the EU anytime soon) 7/17
And it looks like Albania & Macedonia aren't getting on as well as they'd hoped with their accession dw.com/en/opinion-mac… 8/17
What about the deal with Turkey & their visas?
Well that was only Schengen, & that's not going too well, so this was a lie too 9/17
My mistake. If you've got kids, you were probably told we'd be spending that fake Β£350m/wk on schools
Btw - EU migrants to the UK pay more in than they cost (including their share of "fixed" costs, like defence - how their contributions are spent is up to govt) 10/17
No - as you were. We're going to spend it on the NHS.
BTW - 10% of doctors in the NHS are EU27 citizens, compared to 5% of the popn. The doctor you see is more likely to be an EU citizen than the patient sitting next to you. 11/17
Yes - we're definitely going to spend that fake Β£350m/wk on the NHS. It was Reason #46 for leaving 12/17
And, of course, if we left the EU, we wouldn't be forced to help bail out Greece, would we?
What? You mean we didn't help Greece, & were under no obligation to?
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
Seems that VL were lying again 13/17
Sovereignty though! There were a number of ads to convince people that the EU was both undemocratic & corrupt. You can research that yourself, but it's not true 14/17
If you're a Corbynista, here's one for you. Unlike the rest of these I've highlighted, it's not a direct lie, just very misleading.
Yes Corbyn is Eurosceptic (some would say he's a closet Leaver), but the quote was from 1993 15/17
Finally, it's hardly surprising that Yorkshire voted Leave, because they were targeted with these ads
BTW - VL didn't tell you that the EU solidarity fund paid for emergency relief, nor that other EU funds were being spent on flood defense, did they? 16/17
So there you have it. The fake Β£350m/wk is going to be simultaneously spent on industry, schools, hospitals, NHS staff, & flood defences (depending on who you are).
Yes, I know it's not Β£350m/wk, but you must have realised by now - #VoteLeaveLied
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The consensus was that "we can't afford to keep pouring money into the NHS. It's inefficient, & needs a good manager to wade in & sort it out."

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That's interesting, I thought, & reassuring if true.

So I looked into it.
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I was volunteering at a stall this afternoon.

I like working on People's Vote stalls. You get to hear all sorts of stories & perspectives, from both sides of the divide.

1/8
Today, I spoke to a leave voter that couldn't wait to get out. He was 70, a retired businessman in the cosmetics industry who traded world-wide, & didn't like the EU.

With EU regulations on cosmetics safety being amongst the toughest in the world, I can imagine why.

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Like many, I signed a petition calling for a referendum on Mrs May's proposed Brexit, & today I received the response from the govt.
For those that didn't sign up to this particular petition, I reproduce it here, with my response
My MP, @JHowellUK probably hasn't seen it
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The response came from the Department for Exiting the European Union.

It starts by insisting that the govt will "respect the result of the 2016 ref"
This is such a key point that they say it twice, using "clear" on both occasions to emphasise it.
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But look at that 3rd paragraph.
Apparently the 2016 ref gave a very clear instruction to the govt.
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I recently published a thread looking at #LeaveLies. Not surprisingly, I got responses that "both sides lied". After a bit of to & fro, @Jamiepembs kindly sent me some links which demonstrated #RemainLies
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The 1st link was, on the surface, a little disappointing. It appeared to just make the assertion that "Campaigners on both sides of the EU Referendum made false claims" with no evidence of either #RemainLies or #LeaveLies
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If you look carefully in that page, you'll see a link to a comparison of the Vote Leave & Stronger In leaflets. The 1st thing I noted was that the Leave list was longer, but I'm here to look into #RemainLies. This is an image, but the individual links are included below 3/18
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