People are calling this Daily Express Brexit wrongness, “correction of the year”
In what James Ball of Buzzfeed and Political Scrapbook are both calling “correction of the year”, the Daily Express admits its ‘amazing things we’d get back from EU’ list was badly wrong.
Worth reading in full for how wrong it is.
Correction – Amazing things we get back if we leave EU – 26/7/2016
On 20 May 2016 we published a gallery headlined ‘Amazing things we get back if we leave EU’.
Each image carried a caption.
The captions for images 3 (eggs), 5 (jam), 6 (water) & 9 (swedes) were inaccurate.
In the case of caption 3 (eggs), the caption claimed that “A dozen eggs: In 2010 the EU said that food could not be sold by number but by weight”.
In 2010 the European Union was considering legislation governing food labelling.
In June 2010 Renata Sommer the MEP responsible for steering the legislation confirmed ‘There will be no changes to selling food by numbers”.
In fact a consumer who purchased eggs in the UK would be able to do so by number. Caption 3 (eggs) was therefore incorrect.
Given that 4 of the 11 captions were incorrect this gallery has been deleted.
@joncstone says, “this correction from the Daily Express is like a miniature version of the EU referendum campaign” but this tweet probably says it best:
Translation: 'we bullshitted you before the referendum but now it's all over we can admit we were lying' https://t.co/gihNAofQZV
— David (@davidclewis) July 29, 2016