Submitted on Friday 8th July 2016
Rejected on Wednesday 20th July 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Re-run the EU Referendum. "Leave" misled voters - we don't pay the EU £350m/week
The referendum was not fair and should be declared invalid because “Leave” prominently used false figures to stir up loathing of the EU. The EU doesn’t take from us £350m/week as Leave claimed on their bus and posters. The true net figure is about £136m/week or under 1% of government spending.
We would have had to pay £18 billion in 2015 which is, indeed, about £350m a week BUT off that you must take the rebate of £5bn a year that Mrs Thatcher negotiated, £4.5bn farm subsidies and regional aid for poor areas of UK and £1.4bn of EU funding of UK Scientific research. That comes to £7.1bn a year or £136 million a week.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/reality-check/2016/may/23/does-the-eu-really-cost-the-uk-350m-a-week
https://fullfact.org/europe/our-eu-membership-fee-55-million/
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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/139789
Petitions calling for a second referendum:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/133753
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/148559
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