For The R B I D Ers....................red Bus....nhs....etc

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/nhs-in-a-nutshell/nhs-budget
in the year of the referendum the NHS budget was £136.9bn in 2020/21 it was £212.1 that's £75.2bn extra, £1.45bn per week. Would you say that the suggestion to spend £350m per week more on the NHS has been taken up?

[Hymie]

The £130 billion loss in GDP is not disputed in the article – and that was before any effects of covid.

[ToraToraTora]

TBH brexiteers expect some effects on things like GDP but these last 2 years have been severely effected by the pandemic so it's not easy to generate reliable figures from the data. I merely challenge your assertion that 100% of our GDP reduction in down to brexit, it is not.

[THECORBYLOON]

"I merely challenge your assertion that 100% of our GDP reduction in down to brexit, it is not."

Where is that assertion?

[bobbinwales]

From Hymie's link to fullfact.org....

"Bloomberg Economics told us that the £200 billion figure it came up with was an estimate, as it’s impossible to be sure what the economy would have looked like if the UK had voted to remain in the EU in 2016. Many different estimates have been done of the impact of Brexit on the UK, as we’ve written about before.

We haven’t looked in detail at Bloomberg Economics’ calculations, but it’s already clear that its estimates are still less than the UK’s net contributions to the EU."

So at best its not very reliable is it.

Got anything better Hymie?

[THECORBYLOON]

The claim in the link was that the loss was greater than the contributions to the EU, not that, "100% of our GDP reduction in down to brexit".

[barry1010]

RBID?

[ToraToraTora]

Red Bus Illiteracy Disorder. It mainly afflicts 5th columnists.

[Mozz71]

I think the important thing here is where did the NHS money come from? Where other services short changed in order to fund the necessity of increasing NHS funding during the pandemic? Plus, how much of that funding was spent on vaccine roll out? Again, something that was a necessity (despite what some on AB think) caused by the unforeseen circumstances of the pandemic.

I get what Tora is saying, and this is a way to justify the fun bus message, but a better indication will be spending when... if... the pandemic ends.

[Spicerack]

All fiat money, Mozz. At least they can blame it on an emergency.
Not that they don't throw money around like a drunken sailor in normal times.
Can't understand why the faux-left on AB keep moaning about them.
They spank public money around like New Labour on speed.