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A piece by Martin Wolf in the Irish Times<\/a> recently came to my attention – not least because it takes ten very common perceptions being quoted about leaving the EU, and debunks them.Even living in a Mongolian Yurt (the wifi is Terelj is marvellous!) the chances are that people would still have heard\u00a0the classic claims of UK Membership of the European Union being akin\u00a0to shovelling crisp fifty pound notes into the furnace in Brussels every week. It is a\u00a0claim that has not stood up to scrutiny and has even had to be removed from literature as it just isn’t true (the oft-bandied figure is expressed in two ways – GBP 55 million day or GBP 350 million per week<\/a>). Another case of lies, damn lies, and statistics…<\/p>\n

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