A Brexiters view

StevieJ

Nige admits the lie of £350 million a week but the interviewer didn't notice :cool:. He mentions the £10 billion a year figure of the remain campaign. They did notice that he was backing down from the 'Leave' pledges of bucketfulls for the NHS :eek:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/24/nigel-farage-350-million-pledge-to-fund-the-nhs-was-a-mistake/

Conrad

If I steal £350 from you Stevie but later decide to spend some of it on things for you of my choosing, would you feel I took £350 off you or £150?

CLAPTON

StevieJ wrote: »

Nige admits the lie of £350 million a week but the interviewer didn't notice :cool:. He mentions the £10 billion a year figure of the remain campaign. They did notice that he was backing down from the 'Leave' pledges of bucketfulls for the NHS :eek:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/24/nigel-farage-350-million-pledge-to-fund-the-nhs-was-a-mistake/

Farage is not in power and indeed not even an MP.

StevieJ

CLAPTON wrote: »

Farage is not in power and indeed not even an MP.

No he isn't but at least he is acknowledging the £350 million a week (18 billion a year) was a lie by now adopting a £10 billion figure (although it actually lower than that). Soon we willl have people in power who actually lied to the British people not just political doublespeak.

CLAPTON

StevieJ wrote: »

No he isn't but at least he is acknowledging the £350 million a week (18 billion a year) was a lie by now adopting a £10 billion figure (although it actually lower than that). Soon we willl have people in power who actually lied to the British people not just political doublespeak.

I'm surprised you think that Cameron / Osborne have never lied to the British people.
But maybe WW3 and the emergency budget will be happening later today.
But I do agree the 350 million was a silly figure to bandy about : there was a good story to tell without it.

StevieJ

Conrad wrote: »

If I steal £350 from you Stevie but later decide to spend some of it on things for you of my choosing, would you feel I took £350 off you or £150?

Irrespective of the amount given back to the UK in subsidies, a rebate (fought for by Margaret Thatcher) is deducted to the order of £5billlion a year.

Nearly half of the British public believe Vote Leave’s claim that the UK pays £350 million a week to the European Union despite the figure being debunked, a poll shows.
Ipsos MORI found that 47 per cent of the public believe that the claim, which has been repeatedly criticised by the UK Statistics Authority, is true.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nearly-half-of-britons-believe-vote-leaves-false-350-million-a-week-to-the-eu-claim-a7085016.html
It won't be long before that lot realise they were duped

StevieJ

CLAPTON wrote: »

I'm surprised you think that Cameron / Osborne have never lied to the British people.
But maybe WW3 and the emergency budget will be happening later today.
But I do agree the 350 million was a silly figure to bandy about : there was a good story to tell without it.

When our credit rating is reduced we certainly won't be borrowing at cheap rates anymore. So it is emergency budget or increased borrowing at higher rates I should imagine the 66 billion that the finance industry contribute to the exchequer will take a mighty hit as well.

Former_MSE_Andrea

Hi all, if you want to see Martin's view on us leaving the EU read our news story:

Martin's reaction to Brexit – what will it mean for the economy, mortgages, savings and more?

StevieJ

StevieJ wrote: »

Irrespective of the amount given back to the UK in subsidies, a rebate (fought for by Margaret Thatcher) is deducted to the order of £5billlion a year.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nearly-half-of-britons-believe-vote-leaves-false-350-million-a-week-to-the-eu-claim-a7085016.html
It won't be long before that lot realise they were duped

CLAPTON

StevieJ wrote: »

When our credit rating is reduced we certainly won't be borrowing at cheap rates anymore. So it is emergency budget or increased borrowing at higher rates I should imagine the 66 billion that the finance industry contribute to the exchequer will take a mighty hit as well.

we will need to wait a little

interesting to see how many supporters the banks/financial industry suddenly have and how few there are in favour of rebalancing the economy towards manufacturing industry etc.
But to be fair, you have always been an advocate in favour of the banks and financial industry.