Brexit, the economy and house prices part 5

Thrugelmir

More money has/is being pumped into the NHS. Not least to fund the proposed 3 year pay award.

Tromking

Thrugelmir wrote: »

More money has/is being pumped into the NHS. Not least to fund the proposed 3 year pay award.

Thankfully the need to end the rationing of money to our vital public services has become a political imperative.

kabayiri

Herzlos wrote: »

How would you interpret the message on the bus? Why didn't they point out it was never an option until the morning after?

Nobody needed to interpret the message on the bus.

The media did this for them, endlessly, during the campaign. It was actually enough to bore the nipples off me.

You must have voted in some alternate reality referendum to me. Are you friends with the Doctor perchance?

System

While I appreciate people here probably can probably perform rational thought, you must be utterly deluded or a terrible, terrible person if you believe/pretend that this country isn't full of people that will read that bus message and instantly assume it will mean the NHS gets 350m a week. The general population is barely conscious. Come on, just be honest.

.string.

Just a thought to no-one in particular:

Were the Brexiteers insulting the public by thinking they could be fooled by the writing on the bus?

or

Are the Remainder insulting the public by claiming they were fooled by the writing on the bus?

Enterprise_1701C

It is the Remainers trying to find any way to call Leavers idiots.

No-one seriously thought all the money would go to the nhs, it was simply a way of getting over how much we spent on the eu.

And yes, I do know that was the gross sum.

As for how much we would be putting into the eu if we were still in there in 10 years or so? I would imagine it would double.

buglawton

kabayiri wrote: »

Leave.EU fined £70K.

RBS fine 'settles' at £3.6 BILLION over in the USA.

Hmm, I kinda know who are the bigger cheats.

I know who is using the bigger fonts

Herzlos

.string. wrote: »

Just a thought to no-one in particular:

Were the Brexiteers insulting the public by thinking they could be fooled by the writing on the bus?

or

Are the Remainder insulting the public by claiming they were fooled by the writing on the bus?

Many leavers have admitted to being fooled by the bus. The Leave campaign worked on emotion and not reason, which is why it's so effective.

Even if you squint hard enough to see it as a loose suggestion, how do you excuse away the fact the £350m is just over double the actual figure?

Thrugelmir

Tromking wrote: »

Thankfully the need to end the rationing of money to our vital public services has become a political imperative.

One suspects the Unions would consider all public services "vital". Still room to improve efficency and productivity.

System

kabayiri wrote: »

I'm the latter Joe (well...I'm hoping to graduate from terrible to terrible terrible).

The thing is ... this bus was called out for being hogwash so many times. Nobody could have not noticed the furore at the time. It was far more widely discussed than any leaflet shoved through doors.

So, if people chose to believe it, I rather suspect it was revealing pre-conceived bias. They *wanted* to believe it.

Bleh. I think the general population are far too exploitable and there are huge swathes of people that believe everything they read. I see it all the time, internet security type dude all all that.

Just to reiterate my stance on the whole Brexit thing. I'[m over the result, but I did vote remain, but I've also always maintained that my decisions will effect my life a hundred times more than those made by whoever is "in charge".

But I am still salty about how someone somewhere deemed it a good idea to ask the general population if we should be in the EU or not. I will never be convinced that the average person is qualified to know what's best.