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brooklynite

(93,834 posts)
Fri Jul 1, 2016, 09:38 AM Jul 2016

Brexit news live: Michael Gove promises NHS extra £100m a week by 2020 in leadership bid launch

Source: The Guardian

Michael Gove has promised the NHS an extra £100m a week by 2020 at the launch of his bid to be the next Tory leader and prime minister. The Vote Leave campaign, masterminded by Gove, had pledged an extra £350m a week for the NHS. Gove also said he would end free movement, introduce an Australian-style points-based system for immigration and bring numbers down. Gove said he was a reluctant candidate but that he was “the best person to lead Britain out of the European Union”. Only five Tory MPs were at the launch despite previous reports that there had been a stampede of Johnson supporters turning to Gove.


Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2016/jul/01/brexit-live-michael-gove-to-set-out-his-vision-for-britain-as-conservatives-reel-from-boris-johnsons-exit



Conservatives advocating more funding for healthcare. How novel...
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Brexit news live: Michael Gove promises NHS extra £100m a week by 2020 in leadership bid launch (Original Post) brooklynite Jul 2016 OP
Fuck Gove. Helen Borg Jul 2016 #1
+1 Turborama Jul 2016 #2
Good God alcibiades_mystery Jul 2016 #3
This movie clip comes to mind. iandhr Jul 2016 #5
tbh, it was not Farage who said £350 a week to the NHS AntiBank Jul 2016 #8
"We are now promising you 1/3 of what we said during the campaign and not for 4 years" but pampango Jul 2016 #4
And by the time is all said and done... Helen Borg Jul 2016 #6
TTIP would certainly have aided that, that was one of the Leave campaign's few cogent arguments AntiBank Jul 2016 #9
Well, Maggot must be rolling in her grave. forest444 Jul 2016 #7
And if anybody believes this.......... socialist_n_TN Jul 2016 #10
This is why they're in this mess. AngryOldDem Jul 2016 #11
 

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
3. Good God
Fri Jul 1, 2016, 09:52 AM
Jul 2016

So, that's down from Farange's insane £350m?



How many times can they take these marks with the same con job? Sadly, we'll see progressives declaring that this is "resistance" to the "global banksters" or some other such nonsense.

 

AntiBank

(1,339 posts)
8. tbh, it was not Farage who said £350 a week to the NHS
Fri Jul 1, 2016, 11:54 AM
Jul 2016

it was an independent Leave campaign advert. He actually said he would never have said that.

Farage is still a bellend though.

pampango

(24,692 posts)
4. "We are now promising you 1/3 of what we said during the campaign and not for 4 years" but
Fri Jul 1, 2016, 10:08 AM
Jul 2016

you can trust us Conservatives to live up to our populist promises".

It sounds like Trump and his Social Security promises. Talk is cheap. If Brits or Americans want to believe their fast-talking right wing demagogues, they will get the democracy they say they want.

Helen Borg

(3,963 posts)
6. And by the time is all said and done...
Fri Jul 1, 2016, 11:11 AM
Jul 2016

The UK will dismantle the NHS and have a private insurance system...

 

AntiBank

(1,339 posts)
9. TTIP would certainly have aided that, that was one of the Leave campaign's few cogent arguments
Fri Jul 1, 2016, 11:57 AM
Jul 2016
TTIP deal poses 'real and serious risk' to NHS, says leading QC

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/22/ttip-deal-real-serious-risk-nhs-leading-qc

The controversial transatlantic trade deal set to be agreed this year would mean that privatisation of elements of the NHS could be made irreversible for future governments wanting to restore services to public hands, according to a new legal analysis.

The legal advice was prepared by one of the UK’s leading QCs on European law for the Unite trade union, which will reveal on Monday that it has been holding talks with the government about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) deal between Europe and the US.

Unite believes the government has been keeping Britain in the dark over the impact of the deal and argues the NHS should be excluded from the trade deal. The government dismissed the idea that TTIP poses a threat as “irresponsible and false”.

TTIP would give investors new legal rights, which extend beyond both UK and EU law as well as NHS contracts, according to Michael Bowsher QC, a former chair of the Bar Council’s EU law committee who was tasked by Unite to prepare the advice.

Bowsher said he had concluded that the deal poses “a real and serious risk” to future UK government decision making regarding the NHS.

AngryOldDem

(14,061 posts)
11. This is why they're in this mess.
Fri Jul 1, 2016, 01:32 PM
Jul 2016

The Leave campaign more or less promised that the money Britain would save by not being in the EU would go directly to the NHS. And almost immediately after the vote, the Leave leaders backed off from it.

I don't think most people will be foolish enough to believe whatever Gove or anyone says after they were basically lied to. Fool me once, and all that.


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