NHS England boss demands £350m-a-week promised by Leave voters

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The NHS should receive the funds promised to it during the EU referendum, the head of the health service in England is expected to say.

Simon Stevens, who is considered a moderate voice, will make an unusually direct address to the Government at a conference in Birmingham by citing a key pledge touted by the Leave campaign. Brexiteers controversially claimed leaving the bloc would allow the UK to divert £350m more funding every week to the health service.

Speaking to NHS providers, Mr Stevens will not specifically call for the full amount of £350m, but he will insist trust in democracy "will not be strengthened" if Chancellor Philip Hammond argues in his upcoming budget that economic turbulence caused by Brexit means he cannot promise extra cash for the NHS.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/h...ledge-eu-simon-stevens-brussels-a8043191.html
 
I NEVER believed that statement. The people running the campaign were not in power either.
 
grovesy said:
I NEVER believed that statement. The people running the campaign were not in power either.
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The problem is that a lot of people did believe it, or at least that we would suddenly have a great windfall of extra cash as soon as we left, ignoring all we received back in the form of subsidies, support for agriculture, regional development, international projects etc. etc. that we will still have to find and fund :(

Personally, I'd like to see a full report of how much Brexit has cost us so far, with all the extra bureaucrats that have been hired, all the time lost to Parliament that ought to have been concentrating on other things, delayed investments due to uncertainty etc. There ought to be a website with some sort of totaliser ticking up the £££s so we could see when and whether we finally end up profiting from the decision :(
 
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The problem is that a lot of people did believe it, or at least that we would suddenly have a great windfall of extra cash as soon as we left, ignoring all we received back in the form of subsidies, support for agriculture, regional development, international projects etc. etc. that we will still have to find and fund :(

Personally, I'd like to see a full report of how much Brexit has cost us so far, with all the extra bureaucrats that have been hired, all the time lost to Parliament that ought to have been concentrating on other things, delayed investments due to uncertainty etc. There ought to be a website with some sort of totaliser ticking up the £££s so we could see when and whether we finally end up profiting from the decision :(
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Not a cat in hells chance of that. They have had to massively increase the team of Civil Servants behind David Davis, I can't remember the exact figure but enough to make me wonder where they are coming from.
 
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They must be desperate to leave, chucking away the best pension scheme still running.
 
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