Do you want to discuss boring politics? (19 Viewers)

[rob9872]

4%of GDP and the ability to the organise a shopping list, apart from that it was still a lie rob?

I get it, but I'm questioning whether it was a lie or simply an option that some people fell for? The truth is it's not generated the £350m per week so if it did, could it be given to the NHS? It could of course, but until it delivers I guess we'll never know. As I said, he's also not in a position to decide, so I find it strange some would be taken in by it.

 

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[Mcbean]

350 million - long way off the gazillion Black Hole Reeves keeps bringing up

 

[chiefdave]

Why does the £350m keep getting raised 10 years later? As I recall it, the sentiment was this is what it COULD fund, not this is what it will fund. If we were £350m a week better off you could do A, B, C or D with it, but one of the options was NHS. He never had the power in gov't to distribute that wealth and I don't know what the true saving (or cost) has been openly shared. The pandemic of course didn't help, but has anyone published any numbers recently? It was largely rubbished from the outset, so if you think that's the reason that leave won, I'd be amazed.

When this your campaign bus and you have the same on posters, leaflets, give speeches in front of signs proclaiming the same its not hard to see why some people would get the impression there's £350m a week going to the NHS if we leave.

 

[rob9872]

When this your campaign bus and you have the same on posters, leaflets, give speeches in front of signs proclaiming the same its not hard to see why some people would get the impression there's £350m a week going to the NHS if we leave.

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Even looking at that now, it doesn't say that £350m is going to the NHS. It's saying let's fund it instead of sending £350m to the EU each week. Anyone who was taken in by it and thinks that what it's saying on either side is a bit simple.

 

[Grendel]

When this your campaign bus and you have the same on posters, leaflets, give speeches in front of signs proclaiming the same its not hard to see why some people would get the impression there's £350m a week going to the NHS if we leave.

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Not really - it was for most an ideology anyway over actual funding arguments. The Remain campaign could not even argue in a positive manner regarding it.

 

[Earlsdon_Skyblue1]

It wasn't the reason Leave won, but certainly played a massive role.

“Would we have won without immigration? No. Would we have won without £350m/NHS? All our research and the close result strongly suggests No. Would we have won by spending our time talking about trade and the Single Market? No way.” – Dominic Cummings – Vote Leave Campaign Director

If we wanted to write down lies from the Brexit referendum then we could add another thousand pages to this thread. There were so many bullshit pieces being thrown around from both sides of the argument. We were supposed to have run out of toilet paper several years ago as well.

 

[PVA]

If we wanted to write down lies from the Brexit referendum then we could add another thousand pages to this thread. There were so many bullshit pieces being thrown around from both sides of the argument. We were supposed to have run out of toilet paper several years ago as well.

Well regardless of red buses and toilet paper clearly the biggest lie of all told by either side was that we'd be better off out.