Thread by @sturdyAlex

Apologies for the short thread, but I think it is necessary to counteract the deliberate and cynical "everybody lied" white noise generated by Brexiters.

Let's look at the five, plain claims on the front page of the official Vote Leave website under "If we vote stay in the EU":

An outright lie and an islamophobic dog whistle;

Not only was Turkey not about to join the EU, but since the Brexit vote it has withdrawn its application, having lost the main big player pushing for it to get membership (which was, of course, the UK).

An outright lie;

Everyone now accepts this was a great big porkie. The same Leavers who spent months defending this figure, are currently touring studios defending the divorce settlement bill, by saying we currently pay £10bn a year. That's £180m a week. Which is also a lie.

An outright lie;

The European Court has never been "in charge of our laws" in any way. It is the ultimate arbiter on questions of legal interpretation at the EU level, with our full consent and participation: laws, incidentally, that we co-author, co-vote on and co-approve.

An outright lie;

The UK contributed a total of £5bn to bailouts for Ireland (2010) and Portugal (2011). Both countries have paid these loans back. In 2011 the UK secured an exemption from any further bailouts of Eurozone countries. This was further strengthened in Feb 2016.

An outright lie and a racist dog whistle;

The UK has always been in absolute control of its borders. It is not a member of Shengen. To suggest, as the pictorial does, that swarthy refugees sneaking under razor wire will just walk in is an absolutely pernicious falsehood.

Those were the five central planks of Vote Leave's argument on why you should not vote Remain. Nothing else. This is what their campaign boiled down to ACCORDING TO THEIR OWN WEBSITE (it is still there). All five were false, all five were cynical and all five were malicious.

To compare these falsehoods, known to the Leave Campaign to be falsehoods even at the time, to the worst case scenario of a Remain economic forecast which hasn't fully materialised yet, is as false, cynical and malicious as their campaign; the con artists continuing the same con.

Finally, it is irrelevant what the losing side of a vote said or didn't say. The only prospectus that matters is the one people voted for. They are the only claims worthy of close scrutiny, because they are the claims that the majority bought into.

When will journalists start holding the leaders of the Brexit movement to account for this false prospectus? When will the con artists be held to account?

Please share this thread. Please send it to Leave Leaders. Ask them to explain; to be specific. Hold them to account.