On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 20:45:36 +0000, alan_m
wrote:

On 04/02/2020 17:01, Custos Custodum wrote:

Correct. It was a suggestion, which Johnson fully endorsed. Every
stage hypnotist and sleight-of-hand operator knows the power of
suggestion. And all the Little Englanders fell for it.



Why do those who oppose leaving believe that 17 million people (and
maybe more during the last general election) were fooled by the 350
million figure especially with so much contemporary publicity saying
that the figure was a lie?

It wasn't so much the actual figure as the implication that most, if
not all of it would be spent on the NHS. I saw enough clueless vox
pops on TV (no doubt specially selected for their cluelessness) to
know that they had indeed swallowed the lie.