O/T DDay for Brexit..well sort of...

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

HS2 is a London upgrade, there’s no intention to build the northern section.

[BigLadonOS]

HS2 is a London upgrade, there’s no intention to build the northern section.

My mistake Grist.

[Exiletyke]

Bit like preferring the better option

And right on cue Kerr slinks off

[KerrAvon]

The £350,000,000 was a battle cry for the leave campaign and rightly so. We have been throwing good money after bad for years and years on things like HS2 and the EU, London upgrades, More London upgrades and yet more London upgrades.

The Banks! We paid the banks debt off only to find that the big bosses of those banks were paying themselves huge bonuses for taking the banks in to debt. Even the government were banking offshore.

My opinion in 2016 and now is exactly the same, they can lie to me as much as they want as long as it got us out of that cesspit they call the EU.

The £350 million figure was a lie, BigLadon. A transparent lie, but a lie nonetheless.

I've not looked at the arguments for and against HS2 in detail, but building infrastructure is generally a good idea.

The government did not pay off the banks' debts. It recapitalised them in order to address their liquidity issues and took a stake in them in return. Sure, they could have been allowed to fail and we could have reverted to barter.

[KerrAvon]

And right on cue Kerr slinks off

I'll be sure to ask before I get something to eat. Was there something specific that you wanted me to reply to?

[Exiletyke]

I'll be sure to ask before I get something to eat. Was there something specific that you wanted me to reply to?

Yes there was
Please explain why the £350 million was a lie
& you shouldn't be eating at this time of night; bad for the digestion

[KerrAvon]

Yes there was
Please explain why the £350 million was a lie
& you shouldn't be eating at this time of night; bad for the digestion

You posted eight minutes before I said that the £350m figure was a lie… How could your post have been aimed at that?

The £350m was a lie, because it represents the UK's gross contribution to the EU not the net contribution. In other words, it grossly over estimates the cost of EU membership. In addition, it doesn't take into account the likely shrinking of the UK economy that would follow from Brexit.

Have you not noticed that people involved in the leave campaigns have all sought to distance themselves from the claim?

What time is it with you?

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

In 2017 the U.K. net contribution to the EU was £8.9 billion

[KerrAvon]

Going for a beer now, Zyles.

Take a squiz at this while I have gone:

https://fullfact.org/europe/350-mill...hority-misuse/

[Exiletyke]

You asked if there was something specific I wanted you to reply to, which I said yes there was, but the £350 million wasn't it
Isn't it awful when you play around with words?