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by growlist 2709 days ago
There was FUD on both sides!
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1. The proven illegal overspend by Leave was enough, according to people who model these things, to sway around 800K voters. The margin was less than that.

2. This is not about FUD. This was egregious lies:

a) Daniel Hannan: “Absolutely nobody is talking about threatening our place in the single market.”

b) David Davies: "There will be no downside to Brexit, only a considerable upside."

c) Michael Gove: "The day after we vote to leave we hold all the cards and we can choose the path we want."

d) Boris Johnson: "There will continue to be free trade, and access to the single market."

Never mind the £ 350m for the NHS per week on the bus.

I could go on and on and on...

Do you have a source for point 1? That seems incredibly important.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/vote-leave-re... seems to have some details on the presumed effect on the way people vote.