The Brexit Bodge: What they said

Jon Danzig | 1 July 2016

The EU referendum was only a week ago, and already the false claims and promises of ‘Leave’ campaigners are painfully unravelling.

THEY SAID that outside the EU, Britain could control migration. This would relieve on public services.
– BUT NOW they’re saying that leaving the EU can’t radically reduce migration and that fears about immigration didn’t influence the way people voted.

THEY SAID that we send £350m a week to the EU, which could be spent on the NHS instead.
– BUT NOW they’re saying that the claim was a mistake. It was never promised. They’re not able to spend that much extra on the NHS.

THEY SAID Britain doesn’t need preferential access to the EU Single Market.
– BUT NOW they’re saying that we should have preferential access to the Single Market.

THEY SAID there will be an end to ‘free movement of people’.
– BUT NOW they’re talking about ‘free movement of labour’.

THEY SAID Britain has a great future outside the EU; that we’d get out country back and ‘take control’.
– BUT NOW they’re saying they don’t have a plan for Brexit. They never did. The government should have had a plan.

Now, it seems no one is in control. Welcome to getting your country back.

Sources:

BBC News: ‘Reality Check’

The Mirror: What will happen to immigration into the UK after vote to leave the EU?

The Guardian: ‘Leave campaign rows back on key immigration and NHS pledges’

Metro: ‘Operation Backtrack begins over THAT £350million NHS claim

New Statesman: ‘Tory Brexiter Daniel Hannan: Leave campaign never promised “radical decline” in immigration’