Get Out Of Europe

[saintpeter48]

For those of you that are voting to get out of Europe in the upcoming referendum...... When you receive the 'Stay In' propoganda leaflet that Cameron spent £9 million on, don't open it, mark it 'Return To Sender' and pop it in a post box ..... you can even add your own comment on the envelope lol!!

[tonyav]

This explains the funding.

Both the Remain and Leave campaigns will each be able to spend £7million of taxpayers’ money during the official campaign period before the referendum. However, because the Government and each individual political party is able to spend money on the campaign, it means that the total Remain spend will be £26.6million – compared to just £11.7million for the Leave campaign.

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/eu-referendum-%C2%A39m-cost-of-taxpayer-funded-leaflet-warning-about-the-damage-of-brexit-angers-eurosceptics/ar-BBrshwU?li=BBoPWjQ

[EDDIE51]

This leaflet is not part of the 'leave' or the 'remain' campaign it is an official document explaining government policy. The actual 'leave' and 'remain' campaigns have not started yet. When they do start each side has been allocated a budget of £7 million . The 'leave' campaigns are still fighting among themselves over which of the 3 groups will be designated the 'Official' group and get the £7 million! They have Michael Grove in one group, Boris Johnston in another group and a third group formed of trade unions.

[jourdain2]

So they are using an extra £9million of taxpayers money, as I thought.

[EDDIE51]

^No this leaflet IS NOT part of the referendum campaign it is an official publication explaining the government's policy.

[Jackdaw33]

Eddie, '...and the band played believe it if you like'.

[jourdain2]

Eddie, it is transparently obvious that the government has 'done a flyer' in athletics terms (false start to get ahead) and is already fighting a 'Remain' campaign - otherwise this leaflet would have pros and cons in it. They are going to use as much of our money as they can before the campaign officially starts. To say anything else is to split hairs, I think.

[tonyav]

Dave wants everybody to know the the right choice is to stay in !.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2016/apr/07/eu-referendum-government-9m-pro-eu-leaflet-campaign-dismissed-as-outrageous-politics-live

[jourdain2]

I just signed the petition against spending this money - in the last few minutes it has passed the 100,000 mark, triggering a parliamentary debate. Obviously quite a few people are cross about it, votes are flooding in.

[david small]

I don't need a brochure or leaflets to know we should exit this mismanaged farce. Out of it, and let's once again rebuild our country. For the coming generations.

[Svejk]

Eddie, do you actually believe some of these things you come out with? I rather suspect you do accept things that are suggested to you, hence your support for the EU. The 'leave campaign' won't get £7million of tax-payers money. £7million is the limit, of their own money, they are allowed to spend.

[ToraToraTora]

Tape it to a breeze block first!

[anotheoldgit]

Here is what the audience of BBC's Question Time thought of it, it was the first question asked.

[viv41]

I planned to send it straight back anyway (with a few choice words) - can't wait to get it !

[viv41]

Shocking waste of money when there are homeless youngsters on the streets.

[Dodger666]

If these pamphlets are pushed through letter boxes like other junk mail that Royal Mail regularly shove through the letter box they may not have a return address on them. Any put in post boxes will then end up back in the sorting office recycle bin where they belong.

[jourdain2]

Thanks for BA :) x

[THEMOTLEY1]

Dodger I think 10 Downing Street would be the place to send it

[bhg481]

Switch your brains on - if you send it back to Downing St the underpaid postage will be paid out of public coffers so, instead of costing £9 million, it will end up costing two or three times that amount.

[jourdain2]

bhg - I believe that the mailshot is sent on government postage, I heard (or read) somewhere that postage costing nothing; so presumably return postage will be the same, i.e. nil. The major cost is the leaflet/pamphlet itself - which is being printed by a German firm, which has received EU money in the past. Gleaned from The Telegraph today - which has the most condemnatory editorial of a Tory govt. that I have ever read there.