The British chancellor George Osborne has said that ‘Brexiters’ are so paranoid that they would accuse the media and politicians of faking the moon landing and covering up the loch ness monster. The Tory chancellor even shared a platform on Monday with his former rivals Ed Balls and Vince Cable to warn about the terrible dangers of leaving the EU. The Huffington Post reports: George Osborne has claimed the ‘Brexit’ campaign is so paranoid it thinks the moon landing was faked as he made a fresh warning of the deep economic cost of leaving the European Union. And in an extraordinary turn of events, the Tory Chancellor was flanked by his former adversary, Ed Balls, and former Lib Dem MP Vince Cable has dismissed a “conspiracy” against the Leave campaign, saying instead: “It’s called a consensus.” The headline claim – contained in a previous Treasury analysis – was that Britain would suffer from at least £200 billion less trade every year in today’s terms, and would miss out on at least £200 billion of overseas investment over 15 years, if it quit the EU. Balls and Osborne were political enemies of note in the last Parliament, with the former Labour Shadow [...]
