MarkMas
Chief pedant
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This is (IMHO) a weird mixture of Remainer 'straw man' fantasies and nonsense.
- nobody cared about blue passports except Sun headline-writers
- so what? (Although the ECHR does make it a bit harder)
- everybody already knew we elected MEPs, but they have very little power
- the £350m didn't exist but the £13 billion per year does
- what?
- legally, today, no, but in the future of course we will suffer the economic impact of future EU financial disasters if we stay in
- the vote was indeed not legally binding, but it was a promise to the electorate (even though it was a stupid referendum)
- did anyone predict that our borders with the EU would be unaffected (but this has been made into a big problem by the EU and Remainer MPs, not NI)
- simply not true: sterling, the economy, employment are all fine.
- a few politicians claimed things would be easy (they all do) but everybody knew the whole thing would be hard (maybe not this hard!)
- Turkey was not a serious issue in the referendum, it was 'code' for Roumania etc
- true today but you need to look at the trend (see chart below) if you oppose immigration (which I don't)
- not really true in practice - in theory it is free movement of labour, but has always been treated across the EU as free movement of people
- nonsense
- RM is a financial success - so what? And there is no evidence he is seeking to evade taxes
- so what, if true
- and your point is?