BoneyBackJefferson on the contrary. I think the remain campaign was deeply flawed, particularly because it focused on the likely negative consequences of leaving and failed to make a positive case for staying.
However, in terms of "lies and drivel", there is absolutely no equivalence between the two campaigns whatsoever.
Let's look at the facts.
The leave campaign focused heavily on three main issues: immigration, sovereignty and our financial contribution.
Dealing with the financial contribution first, they lied about how much it actually is. I mean, it was a bare-faced lie. "We send £350m a week to the EU" was not even slightly true, and yet they made it a main focal point on their campaign literature. The remain campaign pointed out time and time again that that figure was false because it didn't take into account the rebate (which doesn't go anywhere near the EU), or any funding that comes back to support our farms or our universities or our science programmes. It also didn't take into account any negative impact of leaving the EU on our nation's finances or even the colossal sum of money that would (and will) need to be spent just leaving the EU and setting up a whole new level of bureaucracy to deal with things which are currently dealt with at EU level. So first of all there was no £350m in the first place, and second of all, even if there is any extra money left over after we've stopped contributing to the EU budget (which is highly unlikely), we have already been told that it is not going to the NHS.
What about sovereignty? Well, this is a tricky one because it depends on what agreement we reach going forward. If we went for the nuclear, North Korea option then yes, we could be totally sovereign. We would also be totally isolated and impoverished, but we would be sovereign. But the leavers didn't tell us we were going to be like North Korea. They were banging on about the benefits of being like Norway or Switzerland. The remain campaign repeatedly pointed out that Norway and Switzerland are both legally bound to follow the vast majority of EU rules without actually having any say in making them. In other words, they are less sovereign than we are, not more. The leavers said this was "project fear" and that we could "have our cake and eat it". I don't see any cake, do you? Instead I see "regulatory equivalence", which means following the rules which are made in Brussels with no further say in what those rules are. Because "regulatory equivalence" is the price of not putting a wall through the middle of Ireland and causing a civil war. In the meantime, you and I no longer get to elect MEPs to the European Parliament. Oh, and in this country, sovereignty means parliament is sovereign. It does not mean, and has never meant, that the people are sovereign. But what we have now is the government trying to bypass parliament by triggering Article 50 without a proper debate, our Supreme Court judges being branded "enemies of the people" by the Daily Fail for upholding our constitutional law, MPs being whipped to follow the leader or face the consequences, and witch hunts being instigated against MPs who vote with their consciences instead. In short, parliamentary sovereignty (the cornerstone of our constitutional law) has been completely undermined.
No win for sovereignty then.
What about immigration? Well we don't have a deal yet so we don't know what happens about free movement yet. The Irish border issue could still prove an insurmountable obstacle to stopping free movement from the EU, in which case the leavers will have delivered precisely none of the things they promised. But let's just say they succeed on that one issue. What the fuck is the point? All the available data proves that EU workers put more into the economy than they take out of it. Unemployment is low and wages are comparatively high (although the cost of living in the UK is a problem, but one of our own making). The NHS is suffering major staffing shortages and the number of EU doctors and nurses registering to work in the NHS has sharply declined since last year. (Funny, that.) Meanwhile, British farmers are struggling to get seasonal workers to come and pick their crops, and I don't see British people lining up to do it. And let's not even talk about the ever growing need for geriatric care (both live-in staff and staff for care homes). Where are they going to find the people? Brits just don't want to do it. So I just don't buy the "British jobs for British workers" schtick. The likely consequence is that even if we stop free movement from the EU we will still need people to come and do these jobs, but we'll need to pay them more to compensate for the weak pound. (Sucks for you if you have elderly parents who need care.) On the other hand, if you're a British worker who works at Nissan in Sunderland or Airbus in Bristol or in financial services in the city...well, your job may be at risk.
So there's the three big promises the leave campaign made completely debunked. I could go on and talk about the people who claimed that if we stayed we would be forced to join the euro and Schengen and have an EU army imposed on us against our will (legally, factually and politically impossible) or that Turkey was about to join the EU (just lol).
So that's the leave side.
What did the remain side say that was dishonest enough to match all that? That each household would be £4,300 a year worse off? I'd be surprised if it turns out to be that little, tbh.
Oh and as for the "punishment budget" and the recession we were promised, Osborne was sacked straight after the referendum but Hammond's budget makes for pretty grim reading if you actually look at the details (oh sorry I forgot, leavers don't do details), and if you take house price inflation out of the equation, our economy is in fact shrinking.
And WWIII? Well first of all, the remain campaign didn't actually say there would be a war. But look around you. Brexit almost certainly helped Trump to the White House and now he and Kim Jong Fatty are threatening to lob missiles at each other, and closer to home we practically have a civil war between leavers and remainers, and we will actually have one over Northern Ireland if the government don't abide by the Good Friday Agreement.
Great job, guys.
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