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Originally Posted by Hugh
Do you mean they made promises they couldn't carry through on?  |
Promises? I'm not sure they promised anything - how could they? The caption highlighted above quotes "Let's give our NHS the £350m...." It doesn't say "If we win the vote we promise to spend £350m extra on the NHS".
Given that HMG was in favour of remaining, it was always going to be the case that the leave side would not be able to force the issue even if they won the argument and the vote. Even now HMG is not legally bound to do anything. The extent to which any promises some of the leave side made are carried through will only be known after the event at which point it'll be up to those who make the decisions to justify them and explain what happened to the claimed £350m which was indeed a central issue during the campaign. If it turns out that the actual savings are far less than claimed, Boris and those of his chums who went down that route will have been made to look more than a tad duplicitous and will have to face their critics and the electorate next time out.
Did anyone really think that the leave group would be handed ultimate power to force through their objectives in the event of them winning? Did they promise it would happen or were they arguing for it to happen? It's now up to the govt. to carry out the wishes of the majority and I'm sure that those who campaigned and voted for the money saved to be spent on the NHS will want to see that it is spent in that manner but they can hardly be blamed if May and Hammond think differently.