OMG: UK Independence Party Leader Admits His Bold Brexit Claim Was a "Mistake"

[kpete]

Nigel Farage backs away from the Leave campaign's signature pledge to spend £350 million of European Union money on the National Health Service.


As Britain awoke on Friday to the news that it had voted in favor of withdrawing from the European Union, voters were introduced to their new reality with a stunning admission from Nigel Farage, the pro-Brexit advocate who leads the U.K. Independence Party. Farage said that the Vote Leave campaign's signature pledge—that leaving the European Union would allow for £350 million to be spent on the U.K.'s National Health Service—was a "mistake."

"No I can't, and I would have never made that claim," Farage said. "It was one of the mistakes I think the 'leave' campaign made"

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When pressed by Good Morning Britain's Susanna Reid, who said that 17 million people had voted to leave the EU partly on that bold promise, Farage repeatedly stalled, as he attempted to disavow the campaign pledge.




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http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/nigel-farage-admits-his-bold-brexit-claim-was-mistake

[flamingdem]

1. Farage is Trump with a bit more brain power

Trump after election: "Wall, what wall"

[NightWatcher]

2. All you have to do is lie and get 50%+1 to believe you for one day

The voting threshold for this should have been more than a simple majority in my opinion. Maybe 3/5ths or something...

[Iggo]

3. "Mistake"? That's a funny way to spell "Lie".

[Igel]

4. I'm not sure that it was his claim.

Vote Leave's officers made the claim, but Farage isn't one of them.

UKIP is separate from Vote Leave, had similar goals, and UKIP members formed part of Vote Leave, to be sure. But I'm not convinced that Farage ran Vote Leave any more than I am Stuart ran UKIP.

(My curiosity was piqued when some of the Mother Jones' quotes were infelicitous. They were answers to questions not shown, or have conversational implicatures at odds with what they're claimed to mean.)

[Odin2005]

5. These people are dumber than shit.