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Tue Jun 28, 2016 10:35 am
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Amoore wrote:Karl wrote:Does anyone have any ideas wherE the new hospital is going to be built? You know, the one we can build with the savings from coming out of the EU.
We are getting one new hospital a week, 52 a year. One the basis that Wales has 5% of UK population we should get 2 and a half in the next 12 months, one of which surely must be in Cardiff.
It was said that we COULD build that many hospitals with the sort of money we give to the EU, which we haven't left yet and won't for at least two years.
Deliberately misunderstanding things for effect will not help matters with the stabilisation of our economy.
If that figure were correct, we could quite easily start spending is straight away. We could borrow the money in the short-term and use the savings as they arise in future years to repay the borrowing. Its what we usually do when we want a new hospital or road.
But of course, we couldn't build that many hospitals with the "money saved" as the figure was a lie - the net contributions are less than half the figure claimed. And any savings from lower contributions will be outweighed by reduced tax revenues and higher benefit payments if our economy is just 0.6% smaller than it would otherwise have been. All credible estimates were for a hit larger than that, at least in the medium term (and probably in the longer).
And actually Vote Leave were more than a little inconsistent with what they said here. Latterly they started talking about spending £5 billion on the NHS (£100m a week). However, local campaigns continued to send out earlier leaflets saying "we send £350m to the EU, lets spend it on our NHS instead", which of course, was plastered all over the battle bus as well.
So I think we could say it would be fair to say voters would be entitled to think that a hefty chunk of money would go to the NHS. Perhaps even the full £350m a week, if they took the official leaflets seriously.
Its funny how those who usually rampage about "lying" politicians seem so keen to tolerate what were at the very least misleading and cynical "suggestions" and more likely "lies" from their own side.
