Running The NHS With "That £350 million"
NHS commissioning budget for 2022/23, excluding drawdown of previous years’ surpluses, is £153 billion. (Source: NHS England). So imagine most people's surprise when you tell them that, not only is the £350 million a week (£18.3 billion per year), (on the side of the Vote Leave big red bus* is not only not going to get to the NHS, but also Brexit is costing the UK an ongoing £100 billion per year (Source: Bloomberg).
To add insult to injury, the £350 million per week EU subs we're not paying anymore will not even cover the required 50,000 border customs agents that our new Brexited UK will now require, (Source: ONS). We require these agents as a consequence of leaving both the EU Single Market and the EU Customs Union. (Unless they're happy on £26,000 per year before tax and National Insurance), which I doubt very much.
Brexit Saga continues
The UK is still not policing the borders. Goods are both leaving and entering the UK unchecked. How come? The EU requires this, but they cut the UK some slack some that they could put into place adequate security and customs checks. The UK government does what it believes it is increasingly entitled to do. They enact a law at UK level effectively saying they have a legal exemption from checking goods.
I'm sure that it has occurred to many people in the UK that a huge flotilla of illegal goods could be imported into the UK without being checked. Drugs, lethal kid's toys, substandard food etc.
Will We Rejoin?
Politically, it's impossible right now. The Conservatives have decided to become a Brexit Party. Labour, has avoided the subject. (Presumably, they don't want to be associated with "overturning the democatically elected result". I would like to rejoin in a heartbeat, but I understand the logic of this. Producing a poll saying that nearly half the people who voted Leave now believe this to be a mistake.
That they were lied to.
Because of that, as James O'Brien, LBC journalist/presenter says, "we should have compassion for the conned". Save our venom for the Brexit pushers, Nigel Farage,
I Campaigned To Remain In The EU - And I Have The T-Shirt!
I took to the EU campaign trail for Remain. The people who told me they intended to vote Leave fell into two categories:
- They wanted to give the government a kick up the a**e.
- They wanted the £350 million per week to go to the NHS.
I did meet some agressive people who couldn't wait to get their blue UK passport, which couldn't be made in the UK. The story is complex, like most Brexit news tends to be.
However, you can read about this here.
Was There A Plan "B"?
Nope! The government believed "remain" would win.
Which Names Are Still Brexiteers?
These people were consistently in favour of Brexit and still maintain their Brexit habit to this day.
Dominic Cummings - Vote Leave's equivalent of "The Master"
Boris Johnson - Vote Leave's Joker-In-Chief
Nigel Farage - Pre-referendun, in every fishing port. Post-ref. in no fishing port.
Paul Dacre - Daily Mail Chief. Need I say more?
Daniel Hannan - Irrepressible, Shakespeare-quoting MEP (former Daily Telegraph)
Julia Hartley-Brewer - hosts the weekday breakfast radio show on Talkradio.
These people were Brexiteers but token campaigned for Remain.
David Cameron - the twerp who tabled the referendum!
Jeremy Corbyn - JC's Labour hoped it would all go away!
