Extra cash from Brexit is no ‘cheap stunt’
IT is beyond belief that staunch Remainer and former Euro MP Eluned Morgan has condemned the announcement of £20bn extra for the NHS as a “cheap stunt” and has denied there will be a Brexit dividend.
Ever since the Referendum campaign, Remoaners have been asking where the extra £350m a week for the NHS is – knowing full well we actually have to leave the EU before we get this money. They have argued voters were misled by that promise from the Leave campaign.
Now that Theresa May – who was never party to that promise as she was not part of the Leave Campaign – has decided it is a promise her government will honour, she is still being attacked.
But the argument has changed – Remainers are now trying to insist there is no Brexit dividend at all. One is tempted to ask why they have been harping on about it for the past two years if it does not actually exist.
It is a fact that the UK is a net contributor to the EU of about £10bn a year. This money is money over and above the sums that come back in various grants from the EU. It is money they trouser at the moment and which goes into an organisation whose accounts have not been signed off by auditors for more than 20 years. It is money that will be available to the Government to spend as it wishes once we have finally left the EU and are also free of any ongoing EU ties.
You have to ask why so many people like Eluned Morgan are so fanatical about Britain remaining shackled to such an antidemocratic and corrupt organisation like the EU. Could it be that the pensions of former EU commissioners like Lord Kinnock, Lord Patten and Lord Mandelson are linked to their continuing to support the institution?