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Re:After accidental vote, EU copyright bill faces three legi... by daveFNbuck on Saturday March 30, 2019 @11:52AM (#19530011)
Leading up to the Brexit vote, there was famously a bus driving around expressing the idea that voting to leave would result in a savings of 350 million pounds per week, which could be reinvested in the NHS.

I don't think there was a bus about bureaucracy.

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Re:After accidental vote, EU copyright bill faces three legi... by areyousure on Saturday March 30, 2019 @03:24PM (#19531251)
The UKIP bus pictured here one week before the Brexit vote says "British farmers freed from bureaucracy - Stuart Agnew MEP": https://twitter.com/ukip/status/743369504844091393

(It also says "Free business from EU red tape - Margot Parker MEP".)

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Re:After accidental vote, EU copyright bill faces three legi... by daveFNbuck on Saturday March 30, 2019 @05:43PM (#19532062)
I wouldn't say that bus was about bureaucracy. If anything, it bolsters the point that the Brexit vote wasn't about any one issue.
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Re:After accidental vote, EU copyright bill faces three legi... by bjelkeman-again on Saturday March 30, 2019 @02:53PM (#19531074)
That claim was a misuse of statistics. It was more like 250M.

https://fullfact.org/europe/350-million-week-boris-johnson-s...

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Re:After accidental vote, EU copyright bill faces three legi... by daveFNbuck on Saturday March 30, 2019 @05:41PM (#19532051)
250M is also wrong, as mentioned in your link. It doesn't account for the benefits of EU membership.
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