How can they be so bare-faced about it?
Two of the major reasons why 52% of the voting public chose to leave the European Union is because they were told that a) immigration would go down, and b) that the NHS would receive an extra £350m a WEEK from the savings of not being an EU member.
Now, after they got their wish, we are being told that neither of those two things will happen, and they weren’t even promised in the first place. We all gasped as Nigel Farage said as much on national TV just hours after the Leave campaign’s victory.
WATCH: @Nigel_Farage tells @susannareid100 it was a 'mistake' for Leave to claim there'd be £350M a week for NHShttps://t.co/JNkl5k8IlK
— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) June 24, 2016
On Sunday, fellow Leave campaigner and Tory MP Iain Duncan Smith also admitted that the NHS would not be receiving an extra £350m a week, and amazingly claimed that such a promise was never made. Many people with eyes, ears and memories strongly disagree.
These images also contradict what Farage, IDS and fellow Brexiteers are now claiming…
IDS tells #Marr the leave side never promised to give the NHS £350 million a week. A trip to the memory clinic? pic.twitter.com/Mpn0cipXtb
— Dr Phil Hammond 💙 (@drphilhammond) June 26, 2016
Calm down everyone, it's only a game pic.twitter.com/345WtZbQCh
— Michael Deacon (@MichaelPDeacon) June 26, 2016
They’ve also done a complete U-turn on immigration. Throughout the often nasty and on occasions xenophobic campaign, we told that immigration into the UK was simply getting out of hand and that leaving the EU would allow us to reverse that.
Now, apparently, that’s far from the case…
.@evanHD isn't happy with this potential change of tone on freedom of movement…#brexit #newsnight https://t.co/VKnfMz70ke
— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) June 24, 2016
https://twitter.com/rezaaslan/status/746719564579233796
People who will now be worse off due to Brexit are now fuming, and feel as if the Great British public have been shamelessly hoodwinked by politicians who didn’t have the nation’s best interests at heart.
Is this a record? @vote_leave promises on
1. NHS
2. ImmigrationAlready reneged upon in less than 24 hours.
— Peter Jukes (@peterjukes) June 24, 2016
— Ben Jennings (@BJennings90) June 24, 2016
Leave's lies have fallen apart in hours, they've lied to all of you, no numbers on immigration, no spare change for NHS, no plan whatsoever!
— Ollie Glanvill (@OllieGlanvill) June 25, 2016
Quote of the day, from Brexiter Iain Duncan Smith: "Our promises were a series of possibilities"
— Ben Coates (@bencoates1) June 26, 2016
I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU SAID MR HANNAN. WE JUST VOTED TO STOP MASS IMMIGRATION. NOW DELIVER FOR US.
— VoteLeave Derbyshire (@DerbyshireLeave) June 25, 2016
https://twitter.com/C4Ciaran/status/747007538407874560
As a breast cancer survivor, the NHS is vitally important to my Mum. She voted Leave because of the 350m a week promise. She's been lied to.
— David Cameron Walker (@D_C_W) June 25, 2016
https://twitter.com/SimonNRicketts/status/746674762575929344
https://twitter.com/SophiaDeboick/status/746341281367003136
