Some petitions I have signed today.

Jun 26, 2016 01:26

UK Government and Parliament Petitions: EU Referendum Rules triggering a 2nd EU Referendum. To be fair, this doesn't have a hope in hell of succeeding. But I had to do something. Apparently, Nigel Farage said "In a 52-48 referendum this would be unfinished business by a long way". Apparently, if it's 51.9:48.1 in the direction he wanted, it doesn't ( Read more... )

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artremis June 26 2016, 11:07:39 UTC
Radio 4's More or Less Programme covered the £350 million pound thing in one of their excellent "Referendum By Numbers" episodes before the vote:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07gv98b

It's an impossible number because it's the raw cost of merbership not counting any money any part of the UK currently gets back AND not counting the famous rebate negoated by Margaret Thatcher!!!. So it was always a lie that the Leave Campaign knew they could never forfil ...
But seems to have caught the imagination of a lot of voters who love the NHS and where able to be persuaded underfunding was the fault of the EU rather than UK government's austerity policies

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