IN BLOCK WE TRUST
Either our Prime Minister was expertly trolling the UK as he won his Brexit General Election in 2019, or he can’t quite get the lie of the £350m a week Brexit Bus out of his head. In January 2017, Dominic Cummings, Director of Vote Leave, admitted in his article, How the Brexit referendum was won, written for the Spectator, that they played the NHS card with a lie to tilt the EU Referendum result. "Would we have won without £350m/NHS? All our research and the close result strongly suggests No.”
“WOULD WE HAVE WON WITHOUT £350M/NHS? ALL OUR RESEARCH AND THE CLOSE RESULT STRONGLY SUGGESTS NO.”
“I like to paint. Or I make things. I have a thing where I make models of buses. What I make is, I get old, I don’t know, wooden crates, and I paint them. It’s a box that’s been used to contain two wine bottles, right, and it will have a dividing thing. And I turn it into a bus.”
With nurses being offered a paltry 1% rise after a year of pandemic trauma, the much advertised £350m a week (£18.2b) Brexit dividend ought to shore up £27,180 extra per year for the 669,600 Nurses in the NHS. This would mark an 81% increase in the average wage, when the unions are asking for 15%. Even if it was shared with all 1.5m staff in the NHS, that
