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Recalling the desperate attempt by Lord Cameron’s government to scare us into voting Remain
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We remind readers of how every UK household was lied to, two months before the 2016 Referendum
It’s easy to forget today – over eight years on – the industrial-scale deception that was attempted on the British people in 2016 by the then government of Lord Cameron and George Osborne. This is perhaps best embodied in a glossy 16-page booklet produced in April of that year at great expense and delivered through the doors of every household in the United Kingdom.
Remainers and Rejoiners would of course prefer that we forget all about this sorry episode. “Why are you going back over all ground?” they ask. “You won, now move on.”
With Sir Keir Starmer’s government now aiming for ever-closer ‘alignment’ with the EU, it is clear the battle for independence, sovereignty, democracy and freedom is not yet won. It is therefore appropriate to remind readers of what we all faced in 2016.
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The reasons we mustn’t forget are as follows
“Why the Government Believes That Voting to Remain in the European Union is the Best Decision for the UK”
- This was one of the most extreme exercises of Soviet-style propaganda ever carried out by a British government
- It cost £9.3 million of UK taxpayers’ money
- This excludes the costs of the phalanxes of civil servants involved in its preparation
- The booklet was accompanied by a dedicated government website
- The claims made in the booklet could best be described as ‘guesswork’
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- The British electorate was about to be presented with a binary choice : Remain or Leave
- No attempt was made to present the case to Leave
- The government’s booklet addressed the benefits of only one of the two options on the ballot paper
- Naturally the Electoral Commission permitted this
- No-one has ever been held accountable for any of this
How the government justified this propaganda
David Cameron’s government responded to criticism saying that the government was simply responding to a perceived need from voters for more information on which to make their decision.
“It is important that this key decision by the British people should be made on the basis of the facts.
Independent polling, carried out on behalf of the Cabinet Office, has suggested that 85% of voters want more information and, in particular, want the Government to set out more information on the basis of which electors could take an informed decision.”
– David Lidington, Minister for Europe, House of Commons statement, 11 Apr 2016
Observations
It was while researching through government papers for another report we’re working on that we once again came across the infamous leaflet produced by Lord Cameron’s arch-Remainer government back in 2016 and which was delivered to nearly 30m households across the UK.
This on its own was an exercise in mass state propaganda worthy of the EU Commission. Taken with all the other papers produced at the time, including two substantial reports from HM Treasury containing wholly erroneous forecasts of what would happen if we voted Leave, we can only say that this was a sorry period in the country’s democratic history.
Fortunately the majority of the British electorate were not deceived and they voted to leave the European Union in any case, regardless of all the government threats against doing so. Back in 2016, the terms “misinformation” and “disinformation” were less prevalent than they are today. What is clear is that the government of Lord Cameron and George Osborne was most definitely guilty of the former and we would argue it was in fact guilty of the latter.
Thank goodness for the innate common sense of the majority of the British people.
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