There are still some Remainers who think that the British people were hoodwinked into voting for Brexit by what Alastair Campbell called a ‘great fat lie’ painted on the side of the Vote Leave campaign bus.
few slogans in political history can have caused as much anger as ‘We send the EU £350million a week' READ MORE: ROSS CLARK: Rotten management. Poisonous Unions. The Royal Mail proves you can take a firm out of the public sector but you can't take the public sector out of the firmAdmittedly, the £350million figure was debatable, in that the amount was Britain’s gross weekly contribution to the EU, ignoring the rebate that Margaret Thatcher had winkled out of Brussels. Include the rebate, and Britain was sending £267million a week to the EU in 2015/16.
The respected health think-thank The King’s Fund says that in 2016/17, the Government spent £144.1billion on health and social care . In 2023/24, by contrast, that figure had mushroomed to £181billion. That is a real-terms increase of £36.9 billion a year – or £710million per week. To reiterate, these are real-term figures, meaning that the spike in inflation the country has experienced up to 2023 – peaking at 11.1 per cent in October 2022 – has been factored in.
The pandemic undoubtedly prompted the Government, perhaps unwittingly, to fulfil the Leave campaign’s Brexit bus suggestion. But the point is that, after leaving the EU, there was extra money available to the Treasury to maintain higher levels of spending, even after the worst of Covid.Compare that to the grim predictions for the health service made by the Remain campaign.
Regardless of Brexit, the health service has significantly increased its workforce by recruiting from across the world
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