Forget about Russian meddling or US companies pushing fake and ‘dark’ news on the internet to influence the Brexit vote.
Fake news to influence the UK public to vote for Brexit has mostly come from our very own so-called professional journalists right here in the UK.
Here’s a list of fake news by the UK press over the last 20 years. Every single story here has been debunked as fake news.
It’s hard to pick just one but my personal favourites are ‘Euronotes cause impotence‘ by the Daily Mail and ‘EU puts speed limit on children’s roundabouts‘ from the always entertaining Daily Express.
Read through the list and vote for your own ‘favourite’ in the comments section below – the most popular will win a ‘prize’for ‘Most Ridiculous EU Fake News’.
Enjoy (or maybe despair):
EC regulations to ban playgrounds – Daily Express
Rolling acres outlawed by Brussels – The Telegraph
EU to scrap British exams – Sunday Express
Obscure EU law halting the sale of English oak seeds – Mail on Sunday
EU may try to ban sweet and toy ads – The Times
EU to tell British farmers what they can grow – Daily Mail
EU ‘Bans Boozing’ – Daily Star
Light ale to be forced to change its name by Eurocrats – Daily Mail
EU fanatics to be forced to sing dire anthem about EU ‘Motherland’ – The Sun
British apple trees facing chop by EU – The Times
EC plan to ban noisy toys – Sunday People
EU to ban bagpipes and trapeze artists – The Sun
Children to be banned from blowing up balloons, under EU safety rules – Daily Telegraph
Straight cucumbers – The Sun
Curved bananas banned by Brussels bureaucrats – The Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Express
Brussels bans barmaids from showing cleavage – The Sun, Daily Telegraph
Rumpole’s wig to scrapped by EU – Mail on Sunday
Church bells silenced by fear of EU law – Daily Telegraph
Motorists to be charged to drive in city centres under EU plans – Daily Telegraph
EU to stop binge drinking by slapping extra tax on our booze – The Sun
Brandy butter to be renamed ‘brandy spreadable fat’ – The European
British loaf of bread under threat from EU – Daily Mail
Truckers face EU ban on fry-ups – The Sun
EU to ban Union Flag from British meat packs – Daily Express
EU seeks to outlaw 60 dog breeds – Europa News Agency
Double-decker buses to be banned – Daily Telegraph
EU bans eating competition cakes – Timesonline
Now EU officials want control of your CANDLES – Daily Express
21-gun salutes are just too loud, Brussels tells the Royal Artillery – Mail on Sunday
Brussels threatens charity shops and car boot sales – Daily Mail
Plot to axe British number plates for standardised EU design – Daily Express
Women to be asked intimate details about sex lives in planned EU census – Daily Express
British cheese faces extinction under EU rules – PA News
EU meddlers ban kids on milk rounds – The Sun, The Telegraph
British chocolate to be renamed ‘vegelate’ under EU rules – Daily Mail
EU to ban church bells – Daily Telegraph
British film producers warn of new EU threat to industry – The Independent
Kilts to be branded womenswear by EU – Daily Record
EU to ban double decker buses – Daily Mail
Cod to be renamed ‘Gadus’ thanks to EU – Daily Mail
Brussels to restrict drinking habits of Britain’s coffee lovers – Daily Express
EU responsible for your hay fever – Daily Mail, The Times
Condom dimensions to be harmonised – Independent on Sunday
EU wants to BAN your photos of the London Eye – Daily Express
Corgis to be banned by EU – Daily Mail
EU forcing cows to wear nappies – Daily Mail
Eurocrats to ban crayons and colouring pencils – The Sun
Smoky bacon crisps face EU ban – Sunday Times
EU outlaws teeth whitening products – Daily Mail
Domain names – ‘.uk’ to be replaced by ‘.eu’ – Daily Mail
Brussels to ban HGV drivers from wearing glasses – The Times
New eggs cannot be called eggs – Daily Mail
EU to ban selling eggs by the dozen – Daily Mail
UK to be forced to adopt continental two pin plug – Daily Star, Daily Mail
EU targets traditional Sunday roast – Sun on Sunday
English Channel to be re-named ‘Anglo-French Pond’ – Daily Mail
Brussels to force EU flag on England shirts – Daily Mail
EU orders farmers to give toys to pigs – The Times
Firemen’s poles outlawed by EU – Daily Mail
Euro ban on food waste means swans cannot be fed – The Observer
Noise regulations to force football goers to wear earplugs – The Sun
Traditional Irish funeral under threat from EU – Daily Telegraph, The Times
EU to ban high-heel shoes for hairdressers – Daily Express
Commission to force fishermen to wear hairnets – Daily Telegraph
Brussels to ban herbal cures – Daily Express
Bureaucrats declare Britain is “not an island”– the Guardian
EU bid to ban life sentences for murderers – Daily Express
New EU map makes Kent part of France – Sunday Telegraph
EU tells Welsh how to grow their leeks – The Times
EU to ban lollipop ladies’ sticks – News of the World
EU plot to rename Trafalgar Square & Waterloo station – Daily Express
UK milk ‘pinta’ threatened by Brussels – The Sun
EU bans ‘mince’ pies – Daily Mail
Eurocrats say Santa must be a woman – The Sun
Now EU crackpots demand gypsy MPs – Daily Express
Brussels to outlaw mushy peas – The Sun, Daily Mail, Telegraph, Times
Brussels says shellfish must be given rest breaks on journeys – The Times
Pets must be pressure cooked after death – Sunday Telegraph
EU puts speed limit on children’s roundabouts – Daily Express
2-for-1 bargains to be scrapped by EU – Daily Mirror
EU madness: chat up bar girl and pub will be fined – Daily Star
Queen to be forced to get her own tea by EU – The Sun
EU tells women to hand in worn-out sex toys – The Sun
British rhubarb to be straight – The Sun
EU to ban rocking horses – The Sun
Scotch whisky rebranded a dangerous chemical by EU – Daily Telegraph
Brussels ban on pints of shandy – The Times
“High up” signs to be put on mountains – BBC
Euronotes cause impotence – Daily Mail
EU to ban under 16-year-olds from using Facebook – Daily Mail
Strawberries must be oval – The Sun
EU orders swings to be pulled down – Daily Express
Tea bags banned from being recycled – BBC
British lav to be replaced with Euro-loo – The Sun
Unwanted Valentine’s cards to be defined as sexual harrasment – Daily Telegraph
Bosses to be told what colour carpets to buy by EU – Daily Star
EU says British yoghurt to be renamed ‘Fermented Milk Pudding’ – Sunday Mirror
EU to ban zipper trousers – The Sun
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My Smart Toaster burnt BOTH my slices of toast this morning. Having read the recent newspapers, I knew immediately that my toaster must have been hacked by the Russians! How can we call ourselves a sovereign country if the Russians can burn our toast?
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I can’t pick a favourite, they are all so good.
More to the point, how many people believed them?
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So hard to choose but I’ll go with ‘EU to ban zipper trousers’.
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I like the one about pressure cooking your pets after death best.
NB. Pressure cooking your pets before death is not recommended
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As someone who drinks relatively little, I like EU bans boozing. But is the famous straight bananas story (initiated I believe by BoJo when he was a journalist in Brussels) not on the list?
[It’s there] – TOM
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‘Shellfish must be given rest breaks on journeys’ 🙂
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I think you missed one (possibly many, but this is one I remembered)
https://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/the-infamous-euro-sausage-threatens-british-bangers/
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Why a “prize”? There should be an actual prize. A certificate and an award – a little model of a toilet embedded in perspex or something.
You could make a presentation – even if only to a receptionist at that “newspaper’s” building. A few photographers and it would make a news story in itself. I’m sure some left-leaning publications would cover it – both MSM and alternative. At least some of the following would run the story: Mirror, Guardian, Indy, the Canary, AAV.
It might do something to draw attention to the lamentable level of “journalism” in this country.
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‘British Lav To Be Replaced With Euro-Loo’ is an all-time classic scaremonger from The Sun. We’ll now have to spend a cent instead of a penny etc…
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Everyone a nonsense, everyone a fake and the stupid Brits believed them. How naive can they get. Almost as if they had never been educated to sort out fact from fiction. Which of course is quite true.
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Barmaid cleavages and pressure cooking your pets although they’re all rather bizarre!
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The one I love is “EU destroys UK fishermen’s livelihoods by implementing arcane Common Fisheries Policy”. Lol, that’s pure gold.
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Ooh…ooh…how about “EU implements plans to create EU army.”
Haha..how ludicrous! Can you imagine such nonsense?
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“10,000 EU officials earn more than £142,000 per annum.”
Yeah…right. Ha ha ha
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“Guy Verhofstadt says EU bloc needs to become an Empire”.
Hilarious! Can you imagine?
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I vote for ‘Eurocrats to ban crayons and colouring pencils’. How dare those busybodies stop our kids ingesting lead? Breathing 4-star petrol fumes and licking toy soldiers is what made Britain great I tell you!
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It’s got to be “curved bananas banned” as someone on BBC Question Time literally voted for Brexit because of this!
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Excellent blog article about fake news in the UK’s press.
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EU to ban Pride’s Purge. But it’s not listed, so Euronotes cause impotence. Only 3 words.
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EU tells women to hand in worn-out sex toys. Typical misinformation from the Sun.
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Where to start! ‘High up’ signs to be put on mountains.
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Here is the EU list
http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/euromyths-a-z-index/
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What a waste in creating potential lies when there is only 1 truth worth anything – that the EU’s aim is to form a single state, and very few in the UK would vote for that.
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Or this: “MI5 Foils Muslim Terror Plot to Assassinate Theresa May”! Sounds like something out of Monty Python! Ha, ha, ha.
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The super state is another Leave myth. Most Europeans understand the notion of subsidiarity. Consequently I would vote for a genuinely democratic European state with a fair voting system where human rights are properly respected and regions and localities are free to make decisions where local decisions are appropriate. The EU is not yet that but nor is the UK.
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“EU to ban bagpipes and trapeze artists” gets my vote.
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And there’s a lot more, on distinctly more serious topics. Try Wings Over Scotland to see the lies told by the msm before Indyref.
I fell about laughing at the BBC guy who told us yesterday that there’s a lot of Fake News online. And that they (the BBC) are undertaking an education programme on that very subject for schools. Brass neck or no self awareness. You choose.
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Not on your list but I know someone who voted Leave because the EU was going to force the UK to switch to 2-pin plugs. So I checked with 2 UK standards bodies and an EU one – it wasn’t, wouldn’t and couldn’t. (One of the UK bodies said it’s a 20+ year old myth that gets regurgitated every 4 or 5 years.)
[Actually, it is on the list] – TOM
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There’s another long list of these here: http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/euromyths-a-z-index/
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Why is the EC wasting MY money compiling silly lists like this (and in such minute detail too) just to tell us something we all already know? It must take thousands of hours of work. I bet there’s a whole committee and team of researchers dedicated to this alone.
Also, have you noticed how pitifully few people have cast their votes on this EC folly? Most of them have less than 10 people who have shown an interest, and that’s across the whole of the EU!
[This blogpost has been viewed over 30,000 times – and counting. And that doesn’t include reddit, facebook and twitter views] – TOM
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TOM – Thanks for your reply. Apparently you didn’t notice it, but the EC blog provides the means for people to vote and rate the blog entries, with pitifully sparse results. Your blog doesn’t have a voting system, so obviously I wasn’t referring to that.
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Condom size to be harmonised must be my favourite. What a load of rubbish
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EU to force cows to wear nappies is my favourite.
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As I hadn’t read the press that printed these fairytales about EU rulings,I chose two with a common strand,that nonetheless reached me and had an impact on my neighbourhood mainly through word of mouth. They are the myths of the straight banana and cucumber!
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I have reposted on Cllr Paul Crossley page and my vote is for the speed limits on childrens roundabouts.
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I think it should be a combination. The ban of curved cucumbers and the harmonization of condom size:).
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RE: The speed of rotation on playground roundabouts, it was actually originally part of the old British Standard BS-5696 where roundabout speed was restricted, it pre-dates the EN-1176 standard by several years and I believe the inclusion of speed restriction on roundabouts in the subsequent CEN standard was part of BSI proposals to the CEN committee at the time the EN standard was being written.
So far from the EU wanting to restrict the fun of a carousel, it was actually BSI wat dun it! But why let a little thing like facts get in the way of sticking it to the dastardly EU eh?
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the entire british empire was predicated on a lie – the british population are largely stupidand inbred
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The ban on bagpipes and trapeze artists is the clear winner for me.
To be fair, I’d ban them too, at least separately. If anyone does both at the same time, I’ll just doff my hat.
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Can you list who actually wrote some of these stories. Was it a plot from Boris Johnson all along?
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I informed the postal vote service to take me of the voters roll asp and I all so told them it’s going to be a hung parliament I don’t fall for bull shit and don’t buy papers that are run bye the corporation or watch TV all 5 ou get is lies and more lies no one to belive in any more
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