How does not living up to a statement of future intent have anything to do with living in a "post-fact" world?
How does not living up to a statement of future intent have anything to do with living in a "post-fact" world?
This was pointed out repeatedly, by various official statistical agencies etc. but they just refused to back down from the lie.
They had some stock lines about "gross vs net" (also a lie), about how the figure wasn't 350 but could be increased without UK consent (also a lie), or they just switched to quoting the accurate figure in yearly terms and hoped that no-one in their voting demographic could divide by 52.
Also, roughly half the actual figure is spent on UK farmers, deprived regions and so on, and they'd also promised to maintain those payments.
So, lies upon lies basically.
In fact, UK has a veto, and Turkey won't be able to join until it gives back half of Cyprus (which is never).