Osborne blasted by Eurosceptics for 'using Britain's record £32billion black hole to spread fear about Brexit'
| Throughout this
campaign we’ve been clear about the benefits of Leaving the EU: that taking back
control would be better for everyone; that we will be able to spend the £350
million a week we send to the EU on our own priorities instead. But with just 12 weeks before the referendum, the IN campaign is still feeding people dodgy statistics and scare stories produced by their EU-funded cronies. |
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Just
yesterday they wrote to thousands of people, making wild claims and spreading
their message of fear. Here is what they said. We've added some
facts:
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Scare story 1: ‘950,000 jobs will be lost by 2020 and our economy
would be £100 billion worse off.’Facts: The report on which this claim is made actually shows
that 3 million jobs will be created if we Vote Leave, that economic growth would
continue in the short-term (until 2020) and that growth will be higher in the medium-term (between
2021 and 2030).
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Scare story 2: ‘The average UK household
between £850 and £1,700 a year worse off in the long
term’.
Facts: This is not a neutral analysis, but is from the EU-funded Centre for Economic Performance (who strongly promoted joining the Euro). The paper assumes trade would be reduced if we left the EU, despite David Cameron saying that: 'If we were outside the EU altogether, we’d still be trading with all these European countries, of course we would...There’s a lot of scaremongering...Of course the trading would go on'. |
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Scare Story 3: ‘The NHS's
finances hit - with public spending cut by up to £40 billion by 2030, hitting
investment in public services’.
Facts: This dodgy claim comes from Oxford Economics, an organisation that has received €157,035 in grants from the European Commission. They cannot be considered as being able to give an independent view. The report assumes we would strike no new free trade agreements if we Vote Leave, a highly dubious assumption. Scare Story 4: 'Mortgage bills soaring - “prolonged uncertainty” meaning mortgage bills rising for millions of families'. Facts: The Governor of the Bank of England has said that the EU referendum is not the greatest threat to financial stability (China is) and that there are risks from remaining in the European Union...particularly related to the development of the euro area. |
| We can’t let them scare people to vote IN with dodgy ‘facts’ produced by EU cronies. Donate £10 or more today and your money will help Britain take back control from the EU, protecting jobs and family finances. |
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