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Thread #162855   Message #3931331
Posted By: DMcG
17-Jun-18 - 03:02 AM
Thread Name: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
Subject: RE: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
That there is going to be a big rise in NHS funding is greatly to be welcomed. This is one thing Teresa May is reported to have said:

"In her BBC interview, Mrs May said the increase will exceed the £350m-a-week extra promised by Leave campaigners during the EU referendum campaign."

You may recall how the Leaver's on this thread and elsewhere have been adamant no such promise was ever made. It will be amusing to watch them now claim the promise is being fulfilled...

It is financial slight of hand and politics, of course. We may well end up paying for a Galileo substitute purely as consequence of Brexit. And that will have to be paid for. As will many other things we did not anticipate. I would say you need to have covered all of the costs of those first, before claiming the extra NHS funding is due to a Brexit dividend.