b'million jobs to the UK electorate. ThatHowever, there are business journalists and choice was entirely false. It may even besupposedly objective commentators who are said to have been deceitful. To remain in themaking the same blatant misrepresentations. EU political union would have been a politicalHow should one describe such people? choicenot an economic one. Far less was Brexit governed by percentages of UKThe CBI, a staunch cheerleader for Britain exports or even jobs.to join the euro, has put forward a series of publications.Whether it be two million or 20 million jobs, three million or 30 million jobs,The CBIs book-lengthpamphlet Our Global which depend on UK trade with peopleFuturei.e. in the EUruns to 175 small- and businesses in the other 27 memberprint pages, not one of which mentions states, the number is not the central point,Britains declining number and proportion of because the trade and the jobs will continueMEPs, Commissioners, votes in the Council post-Brexit.That is unless the europhileof Ministers, and Commission staff. proposition is that all trade between the UK and EU countries would cease totallyThat same CBI pamphlet appears to be a at such time as the UK leaves their politicalpaper commissioned by an institution union. If that is the europhile proposition,seeking a predetermined conclusion. Our it is demonstrably untrue and worse, it is aGlobal Future has all the intellectual honesty deliberate deceit.one might expect of the CBI, an institution that has received over 800,000 from the What Mr Miliband and Mr Clegg, theirEuropean Commission during the past five replacements and their acolytes offer is theyears.82politics of untruths, fear, misrepresentation andworse stillcalculated deceit.It has become clear that the CBI supports EU But they are politicians. Some level ofmembership for the UK on whatever terms. misrepresentation of the basic facts byThat is even if those terms become worse as politicians is not entirely unexpected.they almost certainly will. As a former99'