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Actually you're wrong again I'm afraid. Leave did have their leaflet mailed out.

Conformation the state was paying for the Leave leaflet:

https://fullfact.org/europe/whos-getting-taxpayers-money-eu-.... (£7m in postage alone!)

In all your comments you have been confidently wrong. Maybe take a few minutes and go back to the facts?

And again you've made the disproven claim that the government were against brexit. Only now the BBC, big business, BoE and Big foot were all also against you?

I don't get this. The more facts contradict your claim, the more you double down.

So what's really going on here? Is brexit really just a giant troll brigade? Because it clearly isn't about reality...

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>> Conformation the state was paying for the Leave leaflet:

>> https://fullfact.org/europe/whos-getting-taxpayers-money-eu-.... (£7m in postage alone!)

The page you linked to actually contradicts what you said. Both campaigns got £7m, but the government spent an additional £9m on it's own pro-remain leaflet titled "Why the Government believes that voting to remain in the European Union is the best decision for the UK."

From the webpage you showed: "The government is spending an estimated £9 million sending pro-Remain leaflets to all UK households. This is on top of what the official campaign groups on either side of the debate will get in public money, which includes a free mailout."

£7m+£9m is more than £7m.

>> And again you've made the disproven claim that the government were against brexit.

Quoting from the leaflet PUBLISHED BY THE GOVERNMENT:

"The Government believes the UK should remain in the EU. This leaflet sets out the facts, and explains why the Government believes a vote to remain in the EU is in the best interests of the people of the UK."

>> I don't get this. The more facts contradict your claim, the more you double down.

See above for actual facts.

You are completely wrong, to the extent of sounding like you're living in a parallel universe. The UK government was so strongly against Brexit at the time that not only was it formally and officially committed to the campaign to remain but the moment it became clear the government had lost, the Prime Minister and Chancellor both resigned. This is all a matter of incredibly well documented public record.

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