I insist on the Bexit - £350million back

[JohnD]

Vote Leave promised us that we could stop sending Brussels £350 million a week. They won’t succeed, of course, in getting that amount of money back since we don’t even send it in the first place. Saying we did was a lie. What’s more, if we want full access to the single market, we’ll probably have to pay for it. Norway pays roughly the same on a net basis that we do per head. But the Brexiteers promised we’d get £350 million a week back from Brussels. So we must have it.

 

[big-all]

it works out at around 48p per man woman and child every day so small change in the grand sceme off things

 

[JohnD]

So unimportant that they painted on a bus and drove it round the country, and put it on thousands of posters.

We're entitled to demand what we were promised.

 

[Nozzle]

Living in Perth as you do, you'll get a special deal to get back in bed with the EU any way, Nicola will see to that. She'll name it indyref2, and what you'll get is independence from Westminster but loss of independence when it's handed over to Brussels. And then then Barnet formula will no longer apply, so Scotland will survive on tourism and Scotch exports.

Nozzle

 

[JohnD]

So in your opinion nobody can deliver the Brexit that the Outists promised, but the rUK will take some half-arsed option that's not what they voted for. Who will that satisfy? The 52% who won't get what they voted for, or the other 48% who won't get what they voted for?

 

[Nozzle]

The thing about democracy is everyone gets what no-body voted for (even more so with FPTP). Though you are putting words into my metaphorical mouth when you suggest what is or is not deliverable - the "£350 million promise" could be classed as tabloid at best. If the figure were £250 million, or £150 million or £450 million I think the result would have been the same. You like to give the advert on the bus more more credit than it is due. We can see from the campaign, that in every event both sides tried to turn an answer aroound onto their own strong teritory, which for Remain was the economy and for leave it was about chosing our own rules. Now the campaigns are over and the votes are counted the inevitable is now happening... the loosing side is gleefully cherry picking half stories which 'evidently' support their initial worst case scenarios. The BBC are particularly good at this.

Nozzle