It’s not a cheap stunt, it’s a Brexit dividend
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 that 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 that we actually have to leave the EU before we get this money. They have argued that voters were misled by that promise from the Leave campaign and that it was nothing but lies.
Now that Theresa May – who actually was never party to that promise as she was not part of the Leave campaign – has decided that it is a promise that her government will honour, she is still being attacked.
But the argument has changed – Remainers are now trying to insist that 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 that 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 because of fraud and corruption. 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 on-going EU ties.
You have to ask why so many people like Eluned Morgan are so fanatical about Britain remaining shackled to such an anti-democratic 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? Perhaps we should ask Baroness Morgan, who also has a seat in that bastion of democracy known as the House of Lords, whether her pension as a former MEP is also dependent on continued support for the EU. Voters have a right to know. Jayne Isaac Maesteg so worried about not being able to go to the toilet in lesson time. Surely there is no excuse for allowing menstruation to affect a girls’ education.
It’s imperative that schools provide pupils with free access to toilets, adequate sinks and waste disposal bins, and give teachers support to openly discuss periods without embarrassment or shame.
There’s more about the changes we need to see at plan-uk.org/lockedout. I wonder, will your local schools commit to recognising the needs of those who menstruate? Eva, 17 A member of Youth Advisory Panel Plan International UK