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Thread #162232   Message #3863749
Posted By: Teribus
01-Jul-17 - 09:20 AM
Thread Name: BS: Time to choose on June 8th-UK Elections
Subject: RE: BS: Time to choose on June 8th-UK Elections
"I have always said that the electorate on both sides were misinformed and manipulated. Without the misinformation and manipulation" There would have been no campaigns at all "Leave", or "Remain" - Campaigning politicians ALWAYS lie, they always misrepresent, they want you to do as they tell you, if you do not know that by now then you must be incredibly naïve.

Shaw reckons that the politicians are so well informed there should never be any referendums - Don't know about you, but during the Scottish Independence Referendum; the General Election; the EU Referendum it became pretty obvious to me that our collection of "professional politicians" were about as clueless as bunch as anybody else - far, far better to make your own mind up, with regard to the wheat and the chaff - sort it out yourself.

Recent General Election - Labour said, with completely straight faces, that their Manifesto was fully costed at £48.6 billion. The Institute of Fiscal Studies thought differently.

- The £6.5 billion they say they will get from tightening up tax avoidance and evasion - IFS state that the figures are just made and told both the Conservatives and Labour that two years ago when they both came out with these figures for 2015 General Election.

- Costs of Labour's proposed nationalisation programme not included.

- The £100 billion required for Labour's new National Investment Bank is not costed.

- University Tuition Fees the cost is £35 billion not £11.8 billion, Labour forgot to cost in the bit about writing off existing Student debt.

Their costings are between 100% and 200% out - Guess who's got to pay for it?