Most people, is this from a recognised survey or just a hunch?

I'm not saying anyone is stupid, if it was so stupid of them what's all this about?

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A national broadcaster asks about the £350 million quid, (40 seconds in) she didn't know she was supposed to know it was bulls***!

The money for the NHS (as it turns out lie) thing was used over and over again in the campaign.

Really clutching at straws there.

Just accept the fact you lost!

Edited by Penge Eagle (17 Feb 2017 11.38pm)

I note you haven't responded about your source that 'most people' knew the bus didn't really mean what it implied.

Would you like to point me to the section in whichever myriad EU treaties we've had signed for us that guarantees the UK receives it's rebate, and moreover that it has complete freedom to spend the various infrastructural "funds" (lol) on whatever we please?

Reality check: if we wanted to spend that £350m on on whatever we pleased, we couldn't:

1. The rebate could have been removed on a whim. There is no legal right to it.
2. The remaining UK taxpayer funds we receive back as "EU money" could only be spent on specific things. Moreover, a large fraction of that was conditional on "matched funding" from UKgov. Yup: "Here's £1.5mm of your own money to spend on anything you like, as long as it's rural heritage centre in the middle of Wales where no one will go. Oh, by the way: Trump up for the other £1.5m or you can't build it".

Sorry I said Trump. Didn't mean to trigger you.

Instead of being told, like little children, how to spend our own money, we opted to not earmark £350m per week to an EU that could rightfully have said: "you know what? We're not doing that rebate thing any more, and you're only allowed to spend your funds on roads. In Romania".

Now. Ah, yes. Lies. Where's the recession? Where's the mass unemployment? Where's the locusts? Where's the punishment budget? Where's the “serried rows of white headstones”? Where's the relocation of banks? Where's the drop in house prices? Why did we spend a record £77.56bn at Christmas when "Brexit has ruined us"? Where's the back of the queue? Where's the exodus of companies? Why isn't Cameron still PM as he promised?

I could go on, but it's pretty boring harping back to a referendum that supposedly we were all too stupid to understand.

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from Vote Leave director Dominic Cummings

Pundits and MPs kept saying ‘why isn’t Leave arguing about the economy and living standards’. They did not realise that for millions of people, £350m/NHS was about the economy and living standards – that’s why it was so effective. It was clearly the most effective argument not only with the crucial swing fifth but with almost every demographic. Even with UKIP voters it was level-pegging with immigration. Would we have won without immigration? No. Would we have won without £350m/NHS? All our research and the close result strongly suggests No. Would we have won by spending our time talking about trade and the Single Market? No way.

Seems someone who might know about these things thinks differently.

(awaits 'just a lefty blog' by way of rebuttal which doesn't counter the argument.)

Hrolf.... you've just wasted another couple of minutes mate.