Fact Checks

Fact....they come over 'ere and take our jobs. They get to the top of the council house lists.

Well it is isn't it?

I'm afraid people just have tunnel vision.

twitter.com/i/status/1190180045135994881 Sorry, I am putting it on all appropriate threads in the hope that those who need to see it will.

CLAIM

Johnson claimed that 40 hospitals will be built.

FACT

The government has actually only committed the money to upgrade 6 hospitals. Up to 38 hospitals have been given money for planning building work after 2025. No actual building work will begin

Yes I support your efforts WW. We need these facts pointed out over and over again, till it does penetrate at least some closed minds

Keep up the facts WW those still capable of logical thought appreciate this.

It can be seen even on GN. Even Dominic Cummings has admitted that the £350million figure was more or less plucked out of thin air and was misleading, but time and time again somebody will pop up on GN (and elsewhere) and use the figure as justification for leaving the EU.

I could produce a very long list of things people believe in, but are actually not true, but it doesn't appear to make any difference. VoteLeave won the referendum because it appealed to emotions and prejudices, which was a deliberate strategy. Cummings, Gove and Johnson knew that people aren't interested in boring facts and figures, so they appealed to populist gut feeling. It was a gamble and they won. Cummings has even bragged about it.

grow I live in hope. Will probably die in despair though.

Whitewave it might be a more productive use of your time to go and bash your head against a brick wall. I'm afraid facts are just so "last year". Too many people are only interested in confirmation bias.

If anyone wants more detail of a claim etc, I can provide it.

Johnson repeats the false claim that the Brexit extension will cost £1bn a month

claim

A 3 month extension will cost the UK £1bn a month

incorrect

The UK would still pay that amount under Johnson’s deal if it had left on the 31st October.

First FACT CHECK.

Article in the Daily Mail

Claim

The Tories plan to take on 6000 more police officers at the cost of £750million.

Correct - this covers police salaries as well as the cost of recruitment and training.

Claim

Labour have committed to train 10000 police officers at the cost of £3bn

Incorrect

Labour costed this at £770 million over 5 years in 2017.

The Daily Mail has corrected its article .