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Thread #162855   Message #3890310
Posted By: DMcG
25-Nov-17 - 07:38 AM
Thread Name: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
Subject: RE: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
I see two separable lies, Steve. The first is the amount offered. The second, which really only started being claimed after the vote as best I remember (but I am happy to be corrected) is whether there was any specific promise that the NHS would get any "Brexit benefit" or whether that was just one suggestion amongst all the other worthy causes we might give funding to.

I must pick up another of Keith's points, if only because it gives me an irresistible pun. Whether £350 million would be given to the NHS was a key part of the campaign. It did influence the result, according to analysts. But it is completely irrelevant with the vehicle for that message was a bus or a leaflet. What matters was the promise, nothing else.