The EU has archived all of the “Euromyths” printed in UK media - Polidicks

The EU has archived all of the "Euromyths" printed in UK media Some crackers here: Aircraft, low flying jets – MOD to be forced to pay compensation for military jet noise pollution, Dec 1995 Beaches, Bathing water – EU to ban our beaches, April 2014 Buses, double-decker – EU safety rules will dispose of London double-decker, Jan 1995 Circuses – Circus performers required to wear hard hats, Jul 2003

its like britain has been dieting on a steady drip of anti Europe bullshit for decades...

It genuinely has. Papers like the Daily Mail just publish outright lies and get away with it. People say 'fake news' nowadays and they think of Trump but British papers have been doing this for decades.

Yo wtf I thought it would just be a little ha ha funny list. It's fucking MASSIVE.

Welcome to British tabloid (and quite a bit of mainstream) "journalism"

Sounds like someone over there has one very vested interest

While our TV news is held to crazy high standards by a third party organisation, our newspapers are self-regulated. So while on TV is generally factual, the newspapers are utter garbage and heavily politicised.

It's not really surprising that leave won, it's almost like our media has been pushing an anti EU narrative for so long that less informed people take the EU being utterly evil as common knowledge.

The page they completely ripped the list off of has existed for a few years, and each case talks about why they're incorrect. It's a shame that the list ends in 2017. Bigger shame that such a list exists in he first place.

What about the one about 'an EU army' and then France and Germany calling for an EU army. Is that included? European Rapid Reaction Force – EU launches its own army, Nov 2000 Merkel joins Macron in calling for EU army to complement NATO – ..

I mean that doesn't seem like the worst idea. Why have a bunch of disparate militaries who don't work together as well as possible compared to a unified standing army made of all the nations contributions, and can be marshalled as a consistent force in the event of military requirements? I know we all think our world is getting less warlike, but we're still going to be at war with each other for over a century in way or another I believe, so what's the harm in a decent coalition army?

The precedent is that how many of these 'EU lies' have come true over the last 18 years, or rather, 18 years after the 'rumor' (normalization) is published.

So a precedent that less than 1% of the claims made turned out to be true years later?

plus with NATO integration europe's armed forces are practically already one army

I remember reading Harry Potter as a child and thinking "wow, the wizarding world has the worst newspapers". But it was just a barely exaggareted British tabloid all along! " Swedish Presidency will force a ban on sweet and toy ads" Dude, nobody touches my fredagsgodis and gets away with it. Time to lynch the president of Sweden! "Friday-Candy"

So, what are English and European slander laws like?

Keep in mind that this is a response to shitty journalism. On the street however, the main arguments against metrication boil down to "It's not British", "It'd be too expensive", and "I'm used to imperial thought". As a country we use a mix of units, with metric being standard for anything professional & educational and other units are used for everyday nonsense - Personally, despite using metric throughout school and in work, I find inches and miles oddly easier to remember and project . We should've sorted out metrication a long time ago, it would've been costly and taken such a massive effort, but unfortunately that only gets worse the longer we put it off Have a semi-relevant video which popped up on my timeline the other day. It's funny how not much has changed in some respects: https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1092120538259038209 For reference, decimalisation didn't happen that long ago for everyone in the video, even if the process went smoothly it'd still be a bit of a societal culture shock to go through, so their general avoidance to changing another system like it is understandable.

No offense, but these people all sound pretty much exactly like the joke version of American conservatives; the guy at the end even goes through the "I fought and died for this country" spiel.

The age before widespread internet access, basically. Back then all people really knew was their own world unless you had real money