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Let's be fair here: The stay campain was lying just as much, if not more, as the leave one. Don't let your political opinion seep into your judgement of who lie

• ZeroGravitas 10y ago
  No. Don't be ridiculous. The leave campaign regularly told lies about even unimportant things. Simple fact-checkable assertions, which they made were simply not true. Not debatable, or open to interpretation. This is from Boris announcing his candidacy: "Sometimes these EU rules sound simply ludicrous, like the rule that you can’t recycle a teabag, or that children under eight cannot blow up balloons, or the limits on the power of vacuum cleaners. Sometimes they can be truly infuriating – like the time I discovered, in 2013, that there was nothing we could do to bring in better-designed cab windows for trucks, to stop cyclists being crushed. It had to be done at a European level, and the French were opposed." The bike one is particularly infurating, as while the French wanted to delay the introduction of the rule, the UK actually opposed it. Which he knows, because he protested this at the time: "London Mayor protests UK block on EU ‘safe lorries’ law" https://www.euractiv.com/section/transport/news/london-mayor-protests-uk-block-on-eu-safe-lorries-law/ https://www.euractiv.com/section/transport/news/london-mayor...