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Time for a real EUMYTH

A particular piece of Europhile misinformation which so as not to cause confusion I will call propaganda, is that “3.5 million British jobs now depend on trade with our European Union partners”

This is presented as if those jobs rely solely on one thing, and that is our continued membership of the EU, the intention being to suggest that if we leave the Union those jobs would be lost.

When a government minister then enhances the statement and says that 3.5 million jobs depend on our membership of the EU that is a lie, the lie is achieved by changing one word “membership” instead of “trade”.

A lie moreover that has one intention and that is to strike fear into the voters to frighten them into voting yes.

“In the time-scale Blair is thinking of, Britain will not love Europe … when the day of judgement comes, fear must stalk the land.” Hugo Young (this on the Euro referendum but could equally apply to the Constitution referendum).

So where did the government and Europhiles get their information that forms the basis for their lie?

Well we know exactly where this came from, in 1999 “Britain in Europe” commissioned a report from the National Institute for Economic and Social Research. The report from that organisation did estimate that 3.5 million British jobs were linked to trade with the EU. But went on to say even if Britain were to leave the EU, few of those jobs would disappear, because we would continue trading with the EU much as we do now (and as do other non-EU countries, such as Norway and Switzerland) or Mexico or the USA or any other country.

When Britain in Europe received the report they issued a press release stating that “British withdrawal would cost 3.5 million jobs”.

However Dr Martin Weale the director of “National Institute for Economic and Social Research” complained that this was false, and described Britain in Europe’s statement as “pure Goebbels

So while the EU and its acolytes are quite happy to describe reports in the British press which are based on provable facts, as Euromyths, with the intention of building on the idea they have created, that Eusceptics are not being truthful and are not to be trusted, they themselves are quite happy to use exactly those same methods to undermine any argument Eusceptics make or to advance their ideas of a United States of Europe.

In my life I have come to accept the reliability of many old sayings, which seem to be based on some basic truth, one such saying is that “people judge others by their own thoughts and actions”