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On 12/06/16 21:21, Adrian wrote:
On Sun, 12 Jun 2016 20:49:18 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

I've tended to think kippers are evil or mad. This falls into the mad
variety.

A 'Vote to leave' leaflet posted through my door from Gerard Batten,
UKIP MEP for London.

Under 'how much does EU membership cost' :-

'The total combined cost (direct and indirect) have been calculated as
about £190 billion per annum'

Somebody has their Bs and their Ms confused...


Yes, you.

That figure can be justified.


Do go on...

But, hey, it's only a factor of a thousand away from reality.


No, its probably a factor of around 5.


Oh, well. There we go, then.

Only a factor of five out. So even you acknowledge that it's exaggerated
by one hundred and sixty billion pounds. £160bn. £160,000,000,000... Or,
to put it another way, one pound in every four and a half quid the
government spends.

So you admit you lied when you said 1000 times out then?

AS I said, you can argue it many ways, but its not three orders of
magnitude out.

So you lied yet again


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