As the anti-Brexit forces gather on the streets of London, estimates of their number will be growing exponentially on the various pro-EU news channels, it might be a good time to see what 'facts' are flying around today.
Yesterday, in conversations on Going-Postal, about the petition to revoke Article 50, the origin of those voting and the number of votes they were casting, was guided how to capture the source metadata and this is what I found:-
{"name":"United Kingdom","code":"GB","signature_count":1261367}
At that time, the total was a little over 3 million votes.
Today, hearing that the vote miraculously approaches 4.5 million (did nobody sleep last night?), I decided to check the numbers again [bold type is mine], and, hey presto:-
{"name":"United Kingdom","code":"GB","signature_count":4171187}
Miraculous indeed.
Whoever said Lies, damned lies and statistics, they were undoubtedly highlighting the way that figures can be manipulated to serve a specific purpose, but what what see here is the manufacture of numbers that clearly cannot exist, because either the first or the second is false, or perhaps neither is true.
Either way, the data is contained on Parliament's own website, which takes the deception/stupidity to another level of deceit.
