One of the journalists who wrote these fake stories is Boris Johnson, one of the leaders of the leave campaign.
Re:Thoughts on the sociology of Brexit
by MagnumOpus on Monday June 27, 2016 @04:30AM
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Funnily enough, BoJo went increasingly downmarket because of these sort of fabrications. He started his career at the Times - probably the only Murdoch paper with aspirations of fact-checking - and was fired in very short order for falsifying and inventing quotes.
I just learned about http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/euromyths-a-z-index/ in another Brexit thread...
If only British electorate. I'm Polish, and a lot of people here that I know personally are anti-EU - and quite a lot of their anti-EU arguments are about evil bureaucracy that straightens bananas, reclassifies marine animals and otherwise keeps inventing ridiculous rules. And each time I tried to verify those claims I always ended up tracing the source to a British newspaper that took a perfectly reasonable and sane regulation and mispresented it, or even lied about it. If this is indeed the source of those stories, then British press has fucked over many more people than just their own electorate.