BREXIT

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The £350 million issue is a dispute between gross and net figures isn't it?. Approx £350 million is the 'bill', but it's reduced to around £250 million after rebates?

No it’s much more than that.  Firstly it’s about fact.  The 350 million for our NHS was a lie.  Just to be clear, as some folks don’t seem to understand what a lie is;

a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood.

This is particularly important as the intention was to get people to vote based on this deception.  It is intentionally miss-leading people in relation to possibly the most important decision facing our country in decades.



It’s absolutely and utterly unacceptable.


Further there will not be 250 million a week for the NHS as a result of leaving the EU.  The fact is we will more than likely need to make significant real terms cuts to our health service if we have a hard BREXIT.


These figures also ignore the huge economic benefit we gain from being members of the EU.  The EU is after all the biggest single tariff free trading zone in the world, and it’s right on our door step.  Making it harder to do trade with our immediate neighbours, by putting barriers and tariffs between us and the EU will not save or generate money, it will in fact cost us billions upon billions in lost trade.


Meanwhile nobody is investing in UK manufacturing.  Major manufacturing in the UK depends on full single market access.  Until manufactures in and around the world can see that the UK has guaranteed single market access going forwards they will not invest in new or existing manufacturing.