Brexit news live: Michael Gove promises NHS extra £100m a week by 2020 in leadership bid launch
Source: The Guardian
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...
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)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.
iandhr
(6,852 posts)AntiBank
(1,339 posts)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)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)The UK will dismantle the NHS and have a private insurance system...
AntiBank
(1,339 posts)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 UKs 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 Councils 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.
forest444
(5,902 posts)With all the other maggots, of course.
socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)They would be a moron.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)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.