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BIG BAD BUS
I think you know what this is about.
That's right! The big bad brexit bus that promised £350m per week for the NHS.
Let's have... another look.
So. Time to debunk. Point by point.
We send the EU £350 million every week
Let's fund the NHS instead
- A BUS cannot "make a promise".
- A REFERENDUM CAMPAIGN cannot "make a promise".
- "Let's fund the NHS instead" is not an actual promise. It is a suggestion about how the dividend could be spent on UK priorities and not on EU properties.
- The actual gross amount was £384 million per week.
- Yes, we got money back, but it was earmarked for EU projects. Hence the consistent point by Boris of taking back control of that money.
- In his last budget, Phillip Hammond increased the NHS budget by £384 million per week and that was before we even left the EU. The remoaners went right on complaining about it and demanding more.
- The remoaners, one particular remoaner, took Boris to court over it. Two judges threw the case out in one morning. The next section will detail this.
- At one point in this mashup, they show Farage being on "Good morning Britain", being asked if he could "guarantee that money would go to the NHS" to which Farage answers, "No". The remoaners promptly chop the interview (this the remoaner context ripping / mashup technique). Farage was not in government; he was not a member of the Vote Leave campaign; he had nothing to do with the big bad bus. Yet the remoaners tried to leave the impression that somehow Farage was involved, which he refuted in the rest of the interview. Farage pointed out that he felt the net figure should have been used instead. But, as I say, remoaners are an evil pack and lying comes very naturally to them.
- As for the ONS guy... He seems upset that Boris was using a figure rounded down to the nearest £50m because the public record has it at £384m per week, as I mentioned earlier. So I suspect his chagrin is born of ulterior motives. In any case, the two judges who threw out the litigation against Boris even pointed out that it was "a matter of public record".
Remoaners try their luck at using courts to kill our democracy.
As a leave voter, I actually never even knew about the big bad brexit bus until months or so after the plebiscite.
And many other leave voters have told me that the £350 million sign had absolutely no influence on their vote.
Yet remoaners made a constant song and dance about it.
The case was dismissed in one morning session. The judges said that the £350m figure was on public record.
The two judges threw it out in one morning session.
They said Boris had no case to answer. The £350m figure was a matter of public record and if Boris had used the net figure instead of the gross, it would not have even made it to court in the first place.
In fact, when Marcus Ball appealed, the review found that his case against Boris had been vexatious.
Click for the Wikipedia entry.
So that's the end of that twaddle.