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Originally Posted by Hugh
There’s a huge difference between "could be" and (as was stated in "Britain's energy bills will be slashed by £2 billion a year") "will be" - the first is a possibility, the second is a promise (as stated in the Sun).
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/121870...s-back-brexit/
"Will be", not "can be"… |
The Sun … seriously?
You’re still missing the point though. Referendums are not elections. They are not fought on manifestos. They are fought on arguments about possibilities. I prefer to assume the British electorate is intelligent enough to understand this difference.
The argument that ministers *can* scrap VAT on fuel is not a lie. It’s absolutely correct. They can do that. Anyone who thought that was a good reason to vote Leave was not deceived.
*If* Boris and Gove made firm commitments to use those powers during the referendum campaign then, for starters, nobody can complain that they were not used between 2016 and 2020 as they weren’t in positions where they could make good on such a commitment. Boris has, however, now been both PM, and working with a manifesto he had influence over, since 2020 (plus a couple of weeks of 2019). If we get to the next election and they haven’t made good on their commitments then those are factors that voters may take into account.
There are in fact a whole lot of policy areas where minsters can no longer just blame Brussels. The next general election has the potential to be the most broad ranging debate on the running of Britain in a generation. That is a good thing.