Remember Friday? (I know: it’s not necessarily a pleasant thing to do, but bear with me.) On Friday, hours after the result of the EU referendum was announced, Nigel Farage appeared on Good Morning Britain and said that the Leave campaign advertising which linked the extra “£350m a week” Brexit would allegedly gift us with the NHS was a “mistake”.
Sure, it was on posters, and emblazoned on a bus, and he didn’t speak up to disabuse anyone of the notion. But let’s give Farage the benefit of the doubt and pretend he does sorely regret the fact that, through no fault of his own, members of the electorate may have been led to believe that that money would be put into healthcare. It must be tough, when you ought to be high on your victory, to have to answer for other people’s mistakes–
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