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Originally Posted by Chris
What Remainers should have done over the last six months is give us some of the euro-co-operation, we're-in-this-together, our-identity-is-European-and-proud they've been carpet bombing Facebook with over the last 24 hours. Who knows, they might just have impressed on some people how much this all mattered to them. But all we got was the official line, the threats of the budget from hell and all the rest of it.
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George Osborne's biggest mistake was not to quote figures in support of his argument.
He could have quoted the gross payment we make to the EU along with the rebate and grants received covering a period, say, of the last five years.
These would be concrete provable facts. He didn't.
He said there would be a £30 billion hole in our public finances if we left but did not explain how he arrived at the figures.
He has completely destroyed his credibility.