Labour Party Political Broadcast

[fiction-factory]

Last night's party political broadcast by Labour focused on the NHS which is fair enough but they kept asking what happened to the extra £350 million a week that would save the NHS.
Unless I misunderstood I assume they are talking about the Leave campaign's bus saying the £350 million we pay the EU each month could be used to give the NHS . Putting aside all the arguments as to whether the figure should have been £350m or our net contribution of around half that, surely the complaint that this particular bit of extra money hasn't been forthcoming is silly given that we haven't stopped our EU contributions yet and besides it wasn't the government that suggested the figure- it was the Leave campaign/UKIP.

Did I misunderstand their broadcast?

[naomi24]

Labour makes itself more ridiculous at every turn.

[Zacs-Master]

Khandro, I was talking about the half billion between your and my figures.

'We got in touch with Mr Hannan's office, who told us that this was based on the cost of the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. This is commonly listed as having cost £545 million to build, and opened in 2010.'

[whiskeryron]

I have been a Labour supporter for years, I am now convinced they have completely lost the plot. What is your opinion mikey ?

[Gromit]

[Khandro]

Zacs; I see.

[hereIam]

whiskeryron at 12:27, I could have written that, totally agree ...

[ToraToraTora]

mikey still has faith ron!

[Peter Pedant]

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from the top - Farage admits that £350m "was a mistake"

and yet here we are bleating
where dat £350m den ?

come on wake up ! it was never there ! you ve been had (again)

[ichkeria]

Farage was not slow to jump on that claim, as I recall, as it was the other Leave campaign that made, it, and those two rival campaigns were at each other's throats a lot of the time :-)

[ludwig]

ttt // no claims were made full stop, all it said was we would save £350m a week and that could be spent elsewhere. //

Exactly. The continual bleating about 'where's that money that was promised for the NHS?' is extremely silly.