With the December 2019 snap election coming up I am still undecided who to vote for……when I say undecided I really mean undecided between two parties…. which are Lib Dems (Austin Reid in Falkirk) or Conservative (Lynn Munroe)…. I just mention the parties names here as a lot of people so vocal in which party they will vote for don’t even know the names of the candidates they are voting for within their own area, something which I always thought very strange but it’s true that that we should not vote for personalities but you should vote of policies and pledges using the guiding light of facts and the map of experience to direct our way…..and this is why I am so certain that the SNP (Johnny McNally), Labour (Safia Ali) or the Greens (Tom McLaughlin) will certainly not get my vote!
I did consider tactical voting which would mean voting Labour in an attempt to get the SNP ousted from Scotland but I just can’t live with putting a cross in the box for Corbyn , who if he were a movie character in a Latin American country, wearing sunglasses, smoking a cigar and his speeches given spanish subtitles I would consider it believable for Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (Amazon Prime) to be sent to expose him (so why oh why is all that he proposes acceptable in the boundaries of British Politics)
And I am not talking about not voting for him due to his personality, which is questionable with the company this creature has kept in the past (HAMAS and the IRA to name but a few), I won’t vote for him because of this pledges in a manifesto which the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) do not see as feasible. Also the type of socialism he will try to place within the UK is the failed Latin American type (see my previous post on this blog)
So with my earlier statement “we should not vote for personalities but vote of policies and pledges using the guiding light of facts and the map of experience to direct our way” in mind it brings me to the subject of this post.
When I talk about the Tory (conservative) party and the (strong) chance I may vote (viewing they yet unpublished manifesto pending) for them peoples first comments is usually “aww no, I cannae vote for Boris, he is a Liar” then, if I press them, will elaborate on this by pointing out The Bus Pledge, Boris Johnson was noisily banging the drum for it back in January 2016 when campaigning for BREXIT!!
Well firstly let me say I am surprised the naivety some people have that politicians don’t lie or how some act so surprised and outraged when one seems to have been caught out kinda contradicts the same people who say “all Politicians lie”
NEWSFLASH……All Politicians LIE ….especially on Campaign Trails!!!
But here I just want to analyse Boris’s pledge which accusers consider his sinful lie. The extra £350 million that would get pumped into the NHS each week if we were to vote BREXIT (disclaimer, I voted Remain)
When Philip Hammond delivered his Budget in 2018 (Tory Government in power here and remember this is Boris’s party albeit led by Maybot) he gave the NHS 3 per cent extra a year, which would mean that NHS spending would be £350 million a week more than it was before the electorate voted for BREXIT.
Did this mean the famous BREXIT bus pledge is to be honoured, to be considered as a down payment on funds the UK may expect to retain once leaving the EU?
Vote Leave’s pledge to ‘stop sending £350 million a week to Brussels and spend it on our priorities like the NHS’ was one of the keys to its victory.
Of course Philip Hammond would not admit such a thing as he was a Tory “remainer” and perhaps determined not to reward the promises that were made by the Brexit campaign as this would lubricate the way for a Brexiteer to succeed Theresa May as PM thus lessening his chances as a Tory candidate for the PM slot.
But the fact remains (not using remains as a pun...why would that even enter my mind if it were not for us being in such current clims), that fact being that after the BREXIT vote, with LEAVE winning, the NHS got that extra £350 million a week extra.....was this just a coincidence?
So it really what Boris said a lie or a fact is a roundabout way?
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