on the same day the NHS announced that it is at \u201ctipping point\u201d<\/a> as far as funding goes.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, the GBP remains 10% down on its pre-referendum level (notwithstanding a handful of biased news reports announcing its \u201crecovery\u201d every time it goes up by a few tenths of a US cent, even though those are invariably followed by a similar fall).<\/p>\n
You will recall (unless you were one of the prats taken in by it) that this \u00a3350m which was used to pay for our EU membership would immediately be freed up and channelled into the NHS instead if you voted Brexit. This, along with the implied promise of ritual bonfires containing millions of immigrants, was enough to secure your vote.<\/p>\n
How cheaply that was bought in the end, eh? Both claims were totally wrong, and you fell for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Brexit campaign has officially dumped its pre-referendum claim that leaving the EU would immediately free up \u00a3350,000,000 for the NHS. Irrespective of retrospective semantics, that\u2019s what they were telling the monkey-with-the-vote on the run up. Ironically \u2013 or perhaps not \u2013 this comes on the same day the NHS announced that it is at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[98,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brexit","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t