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Re:U.K. Parliament Gives Theresa May Permission to Start Brexit by jacquesm on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @01:55AM (#13865340)
I'm sure they could have simply corrected the amount and not waste any space with 'small print'.

But hey, anything goes when there are votes to be gotten, who cares about facts and accuracy anyway?

Re:U.K. Parliament Gives Theresa May Permission to Start Brexit by ldjb on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @09:52AM (#13867445)
The amount is correct — it's the gross amount we send to the EU. Perhaps it would have been simpler to just put the net amount — £250 million — which is still a huge amount. Even if they did that, though, people would claim they were promising to spend the entire £250 million on the NHS, which would not be correct either.

Whatever the pledge was, people would have nitpicked and claimed it was a lie. There's no way to succinctly provide enough details on the side of a bus to satisfy everyone.