Far Right Watch Team: The Long, Long, List of Vote Leave #Brexit Lies ... Each One, Busted.

One of the hardest working MEPs in the EU (for 20 years) is Labour's Richard Corbett, representing Yorkshire and Humber.

 His speciality is, and has been for many years, busting EU myths using properly sourced, neutral data. Actual facts, and all publicly available.

His piece on Vote Leave Lies we thought was particularly good...

 Read on: Far Right Watch Team: The Long, Long, List of Vote Leave #Brexit Lies ... Each One, Busted.

Politically Incorrect

You can’t hang around for long on social media without coming across code words, bandied about by those who like to think of themselves as “politically incorrect”. You can look up the origin and evolution of the term “politically correct” if you like; suffice to say that the current usage by the hard right to stigmatise those who actually want to take into account the needs of women and minorities is relatively recent.

 And frankly, if being accused of political correctness is a bad thing, I don’t want to be right. Or rather: alt-right.

So, the lexicon of the self-described “politically incorrect”. These are terms often brandished with pride by those who use them, but rarely are their precise meanings made clear. I will endeavour to repair this. One thing I can promise you is that in this post I will not use sarcasm, exaggeration for comic effect, or any other … Continue reading →

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