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–
Ah. Hold that thought.
It looks like the Independent has unearthed a video of Nigel Farage on television before the vote, and – strange thing – he tells Hilary Benn that the money currently being sent to Europe should be spent on, er, “schools, hospitals and the NHS”.
Well, this mole isn’t sure what to say. Maybe Farage doesn’t remember this specific moment? Maybe when he said “schools, hospitals and the NHS” he actually meant something different, like “negotiating our exit from the EU”, or “paying to access the common market despite no longer being a member”? Or maybe when he said that money should be spent on these things, he didn’t mean it necessarily would be, and it would have been entirely unreasonable for the voting public to make such an absurd leap?
All I can suggest is that you watch and decide for yourself, dear reader.
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