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Thread #160019   Message #3794651
Posted By: Richard Bridge
09-Jun-16 - 06:20 PM
Thread Name: BS: To Br/Exit Or Not To Br/Exit
Subject: RE: BS: To Br/Exit Or Not To Br/Exit
Well, until TTIP got filleted, and, more recently, probably blocked by the French, I was vaguely near the fence.

But every time I see Brexit propaganda it contains a pack of lies. For example the EU does not cost us £350m per week. And the implication that he con-servatives would spend that £350m or any other sum preserving the NHS is fanciful. The Brexiteers fanny on about workers' rights allegedly won by the trade unions, without any reference to the fact that the trade unions were castrated by the bitch Thatcher and have since been hogtied by voting and financial restrictions. The Brexiteers lie that UK holiday entitlement is 5.6 weeks but EU 4 - in fact the UK 5.6 weeks includes 8 public holidays - exactly equal to the EU requirement of 4 weeks not including bank holidays - and pretty well all EU countries have more public holidays than we do. Every single Brexit alleged fact that I have checked with care has turned out to be false or misleading.

Then there is the endless rhetoric about floods of migrants destroying the UK's NHS and economy. Rubbish. Without migrant workers (a large proportion being from EU countries) the NHS would be short about 20% of its workforce, and would collapse. Migrants make a huge net contribution to our economy and are far less likely to claim benefits than the UK born.

The dishonesty of the Brexiteers has confirmed my intention to vote Bremain - and the huge leave posters on the gate of my grunting Neanderthal neighbour and the door of the pub over the road which is UKRAP central (your IQ drops 20% if you cross the threshold) reinforce that intention. So I am in the company of conservative MP Dr Sarah Wollaston, who recently jumped from the Brexit ship because she was no longer able to stand the Brexit lies.

Then look at the politically established Brexit supporters. Boris, Gove, Cummings, the toxic Matthew Elliott, IDS, Grayling, Whippingdale, Lawson, Carswell, der Fuhrage, Arron Banks, the untrustable gorgeous George Galloway, Lawson. Oh dear!