You have to wonder whose lies they are. And she names the usual suspects.

The anti-EU lies are back to exploit Britain’s weak spot again

Perhaps she means the Brit brain.

Post after post [in Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit] is spreading a fake list of the treaty’s contents. 

If Britain stays in the EU, by 2020 we will be locked into vassalage of a new super-state. 

There is never, of course, any quote or link to the real treaty. 

So who’s doing this? 

Are these posts real, Russian, or US-financed far-right bots, generated by any of the linked Brexit groups under different names? 

Impossible to tell, says Steve Peers, a professor of EU law at Essex University who has been chasing down this monster with painstaking rebuttals, refuting it point by point. 

He says the similarity of the words used – the “I’ve just been reading the Lisbon treaty” phrasing – suggests a highly organised and well-financed campaign of disinformation, backed by expensive ads disseminated virally.

If it weren’t so avidly believed and shared, this absurdity could be ignored, but it’s typical Brexitology. 

Here are its claims: in 2020 all EU countries lose their veto. 

In 2022 all become states of the new federal nation and must join the euro. 

The London Stock Exchange will move to Frankfurt to an EU exchange and the EU parliament and court of justice become “supreme”. 

Borders are lost as Schengen becomes compulsory and countries lose control of planning and tax policies. 

The UK hands over its armed forces and nuclear deterrent to an EU force.

There’s a lot more of this balderdash, with each claim meticulously debunked by Peers. 

No, nothing new is about to be enforced: there is no mention of 2020 or 2022 in the real treaty, as all was fixed in 2009. No, the word “federal” is not in there, except in Germany’s official name. 

No, the veto isn’t being lost, while the need for unanimous votes gets 100 mentions. 

Some claims sound vaguely plausible: true, we have no absolute control of our fisheries and never did, in or out of the EU. 

But no, the UK won’t lose the Falklands, Caymans and Gibraltar.

And it will all get so much worse if it looks like there will be a new referendum.