Quote Originally Posted by MadAmster View Post
1. Take your own advice TTR. I replied to something you posted. The question I posed to you, in response to your claim was, basically, are they really spending £36,400,000,000 a year MORE on the NHS in 2024 than they did in 2016? I think you'll find the answer is a resounding NO! You appear to have included the however many billions was wasted on substandard PPE. Money the Tories have failed to reclaim from the snake oil salesmen and women. BTW - I looked up healthcare spending in 2016 and that was £191.7Bn. I then looked up the 2024 spending and found this from the 2024 Budget "The government announced an additional £2.5 billion of day-to-day revenue funding for the NHS in England in 2024/25 over what was planned last year. Health resource departmental expenditure limits (DEL) will be £179.6 billion, of which NHS England will have £164.9 billion."

2. Finally you post something upon which we can agree. Loads of dumbasses, most of whom voted LEAVE looked at the message on the bus and thought "I'll have some of that" and promptly voted Leave, purely on the basis of what they saw as a promise. On many an online platform, both pre and post referendum, I argued the point that it was a clever political ploy and no more than that. It was an example of what they MIGHT do with the money rather than what they WOULD do with the money.

Where we differ on this point is that the £350M a week cost was the gross figure and not the net figure. Take into account the Thatcher refund and the grants and subsidies we received, the actual cost of EU membership was less than half that figure. They conned the gullible and many are still falling for it.

3. Since January 31st, 2020 we are no longer in the EU. How much of that £54Bn comes/came from the UK and you say "here's a...", my question is where is it?

Also are you aware that the UK can still take part in EU funding programmes. It's not all doom and gloom but that doesn't fit Farridge's narrative.
The published figures for 2021/22 is £159bn – equivalent to an extra £415m per week. It does not end there, for the UK Government has published its NHS spending up until 2024 and by then it will have risen to £166bn – meaning an increase of £557m a week more than before the referendum (allowing for inflation). So like it or lump it, what that bus insinuated, could be done. The money spent on Polish motorways, was needed here