Personally I intensely dislike both Cameron and Osborne. Remain’s campaign has been criticised for being dull, being negative, and being led by people who are thoroughly disliked.Īll of those claims are entirely reasonable. I haven’t had time to fact-check every single Leave claim, and some, like the claim that leaving “will make Britain Great again”, aren’t possible to fact-check.īut every single Leave claim I’ve checked has turned out not to be exaggeration, not to be well-meaning misunderstanding, but to be obviously false. In other words, Leave’s statement is absolutely untrue, and that’s proved by an article they themselves use as “proof” of their untrue statement. The GMC, which registers doctors and licenses them to work, has been able to check EU medics’ English since last summer… As just one example, the Vote Leave website claimsīecause of free movement laws, the UK cannot test every EU doctor operating in the UK for whether they can speak EnglishĪs proof, they link to an article in the Guardian about a horrible accident thanks to a doctor not understanding English. I haven’t had time to post all the mini-fact-checks I’ve found. Just today I discovered that the European Commission’s role in legislation is actually far more balanced than I thought.Īnd the Leave campaign lie a lot more. The more I investigate the EU, the more I find out it’s fairer and better set up than the UK’s government. They lie about the state of democracy in the EU. I still have found absolutely no support whatsoever for the figures that are confidently quoted here. They lie about the business case for Leave. I’d love to say “they’re misinformed”, or “they exaggerate”, but they don’t. They lie about how much money we spend on the EU. Leave’s ReliabilityĪt every single turn, I found that the Leave campaign’s arguments were founded on lies. Unfortunately, “well, at the end of the day both sides have a good point” is not what I found. And if that happens I’d much rather be saying “well, at the end of the day both sides have a good point” than “oh god, oh god, we’re in real trouble now”. Why? Because the country might vote for Leave. However, I really hoped to find that my initial impressions of Leave were wildly wrong, and I was hoping they had very strong arguments. I came into this leaning cautiously to Remain. You care about who’s telling the truth, who isn’t, and who you should vote for. It has been surprisingly interesting, in some ways. ( Here are all the posts I wrote as a result. I’ve treated myself to a fun Google search for the accounts of pro-Remain activists to check that they’re not biased. I’ve hacked through academic analyses of the EU when I really should have been promoting my Virtual Reality game. I’ve read 90-page government reports on my way to a wedding. The latter reference is to David Cameron, who has been criticised for calling the referendum on Britain’s EU membership, which led to Brexit.I’ve now spent the last three weeks fact-checking every detail on Brexit that I possibly could. I should have been clearer when I then said it was the best thing that had happened to us for a long time – because I greatly disliked the behaviour of the previous PM, who at that point I felt had abandoned us and everybody felt angry and let down. In response I said that we had a woman in charge of our country, and that I felt it was a good thing to have women in power. I felt he was putting a really negative slant on powerful women, referring to a witch hunt involving Hillary Clinton. My response to the interviewer was not meant to be political but rather was in the defence of women in power. She says she decided not to clarify her words at the time but was now moved to comment after the quote had been aired again in articles about her recently remastered back catalogue and a book of her collected lyrics. Writing on her website, Bush says the quote was “out of context … it seemed as if the focus went on to the quote rather than the work. She’s very sensible and I think that’s a good thing at this point in time.” “I will say it is great to have a woman in charge of the country. She’s a very intelligent woman but I don’t see much to fear. I think it’s the best thing that’s happened to us in a long time. I actually really like her and think she’s wonderful. In the interview with the Canadian magazine Maclean’s, Bush was reported as voicing support for the British prime minister, Theresa May.Īnswering a question about Hillary Clinton and “the fear of women’s power”, she said: “We have a female prime minister here in the UK.
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