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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

So it's looking like The Brexit Party is making a move on policies at last

Farage's plan to rebuild Britain: Brexit Party leader plots £200 BILLION scheme to rejuvenate regions outside London by scrapping the foreign aid budget and HS2 while refusing to pay Brussels' 'divorce bill'

So, £200 billion of plans.

Focusing outside of bloody London will be nice.

Scrapping the Aid budget is controversial but many will agree with it.

Scrapping HS2 I don't know enough about HS2 to formulate an opinion and the Brussels £39 quid

well that's his stance.

The Brexit Party leader will unveil the bold plan, which includes rebuilding the transport system and free broadband for all homes at a rally in Birmingham.

If Scrapping HS2 is his way I wonder what rebuilding the transport system entails.

I don't see free broadband for everyone a necessity, nice but not a priority for government expenditure.

So Scrapping HS2 and foreign aid and flipping Brussels the finger would still leave the Brexit party needing to find an extra £47billion from other sources.

I know its only a small handful of ideas / policies.

What do you think?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I’m happy with a great start. Also the announcement yesterday that TBP has 100 new MP candidates ready to fight the next general election.

I have never been in favour of foreign aid, especially while we are struggling ourselves, yet still giving money to the likes of India (who now have their own space project).

HS2 is a good idea imho, but it is not totally necessary, and the money could be better spent elsewhere.

I’m not in favour of paying the EU to leave the EU. We have already paid in too much just for the ‘privilege’ of being members. Even paying the full amount while waiting for our crap politicians to take us out following our referendum.

So it is a good start, lefty liberals really have their panties in a bunch on Twitter. - Good!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Feels unexpected vote winners for their target market. Suspect Birmingham is gettind some extra love as the brexit message there was (in places) tailored for the community... And the wider standard TBP ethos may resonate less.

He more interested when they get to real policies such as NHS, pensions, wider spending, rather than a few headline projects

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Feels unexpected vote winners for their target market. Suspect Birmingham is gettind some extra love as the brexit message there was (in places) tailored for the community... And the wider standard TBP ethos may resonate less.

He more interested when they get to real policies such as NHS, pensions, wider spending, rather than a few headline projects "

Indeed but it's a start I guess

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

He more interested when they get to real policies such as NHS, pensions, wider spending, rather than a few headline projects

Indeed but it's a start I guess

It is. Tho I thought they went public with this yonks ago. Was hoping for something a bit more substantial... Its a interesting situation given Brexit is cross party, how they will get non Brexit polices to appeal to many...

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By *anejohnkent6263Couple
over a year ago

canterbury

Sounds like a good starting point ..need to get a few more things on the go though

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By *oo hotCouple
over a year ago

North West

These are populist messages again looking to appeal to a targeted mindset. Scrapping foreign aid and withholding the EU settlement is going to be a given for a Party like this. Also, it sounds great when you only have a one-dimensional thought process. As for HS2, that is everyone's favourite whipping boy at the moment.

The real meat though is surely about education, NHS, taxation and the support of the wider economy.

How will the Brexit Party stimulate the economy? How will they deal with the friction with EU trade as a result of withholding the EU settlement funds? How much money and resources will be allocated to negotiating new trade deals to replace the forty odd deals that we had as EU Members?

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By *ony 2016Man
over a year ago

Huddersfield /derby cinemas

Our EU settlement is for things WE have already agreed with the EU , eg pensions , so am I correct in assuming that Farage has agreed not to claim any pension due to him as he no longer wants us to contribute ?

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

He more interested when they get to real policies such as NHS, pensions, wider spending, rather than a few headline projects

Indeed but it's a start I guess

It is. Tho I thought they went public with this yonks ago. Was hoping for something a bit more substantial... "

Very true but it's the first I've read regarding anything other than Brexit.

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By *mmabluTV/TS
over a year ago

upton wirral

"So it's looking like The Brexit Party is making a move on policies at last

So, £200 billion of plans.

Focusing outside of bloody London will be nice.

Scrapping the Aid budget is controversial but many will agree with it.

Scrapping HS2 I don't know enough about HS2 to formulate an opinion and the Brussels £39 quid

well that's his stance.

The Brexit Party leader will unveil the bold plan, which includes rebuilding the transport system and free broadband for all homes at a rally in Birmingham.

If Scrapping HS2 is his way I wonder what rebuilding the transport system entails.

I don't see free broadband for everyone a necessity, nice but not a priority for government expenditure.

So Scrapping HS2 and foreign aid and flipping Brussels the finger would still leave the Brexit party needing to find an extra £47billion from other sources.

I know its only a small handful of ideas / policies.

What do you think?

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He will nevr be PM sdo ikrrevilent although scrapping HS2 is a no brainer the sooner the better.Maybe after Brexit he can form a scrap HS2 party

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By *asyukMan
over a year ago

West London

They can promise anything without thought. As can Boris.

So just taking cancelling HS2. What happens to those jobs? What happens to the Siemens train factory? What's the delay until a new rail development strategy is on place of any?

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By *asyukMan
over a year ago

West London

"So it's looking like The Brexit Party is making a move on policies at last

So, £200 billion of plans.

Focusing outside of bloody London will be nice.

Scrapping the Aid budget is controversial but many will agree with it.

Scrapping HS2 I don't know enough about HS2 to formulate an opinion and the Brussels £39 quid

well that's his stance.

The Brexit Party leader will unveil the bold plan, which includes rebuilding the transport system and free broadband for all homes at a rally in Birmingham.

If Scrapping HS2 is his way I wonder what rebuilding the transport system entails.

I don't see free broadband for everyone a necessity, nice but not a priority for government expenditure.

So Scrapping HS2 and foreign aid and flipping Brussels the finger would still leave the Brexit party needing to find an extra £47billion from other sources.

I know its only a small handful of ideas / policies.

What do you think?

He will nevr be PM sdo ikrrevilent although scrapping HS2 is a no brainer the sooner the better.Maybe after Brexit he can form a scrap HS2 party"

It is far from a "no-brainer".

The question should be which part of HS2 comes first. It should be the cross country route joining Leeds to Manchester and then the North-South line to add the capacity that is needed.

I believe that it was phased the other way around as it is geographically less challenging for the engineering, bit not convinced.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's all seems very expensive.

What happened to fiscal responsibility.

Has there been a sudden bloom of money trees for the brexiters.Farage/Boris /Cunt have all been talking big spending plans.

It all reminds me of the pub landlords al Murray and his pledge of a penny a pint if you elect him.

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By *asyukMan
over a year ago

West London

"It's all seems very expensive.

What happened to fiscal responsibility.

Has there been a sudden bloom of money trees for the brexiters.Farage/Boris /Cunt have all been talking big spending plans.

It all reminds me of the pub landlords al Murray and his pledge of a penny a pint if you elect him.

I'll vote for that.

Can they also guarantee sunshine everyday forever?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Our EU settlement is for things WE have already agreed with the EU , eg pensions , so am I correct in assuming that Farage has agreed not to claim any pension due to him as he no longer wants us to contribute ?"

BREXIT Party MEPs are only meant to be there until we leave the EU. I would have thought that was obvious. As for what we are supposed to owe them, they can be sure that we have been paying our ‘dues’ for far too long already, so they can keep that and be done with.

Nige will be standing for parliament in the next general election, and so even if we are still stuck in this rut, he will still have to give up his seat as an MEP.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nige will be standing for parliament in the next general election, and so even if we are still stuck in this rut, he will still have to give up his seat as an MEP."

He has his previous 19 years odd of pension. Plus, I'd imagine, a golden goodbye.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nige will be standing for parliament in the next general election, and so even if we are still stuck in this rut, he will still have to give up his seat as an MEP.

He has his previous 19 years odd of pension. Plus, I'd imagine, a golden goodbye. "

And you don’t think we have already paid in enough to cover all this? We have, and the EU can fuckin whistle.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nige will be standing for parliament in the next general election, and so even if we are still stuck in this rut, he will still have to give up his seat as an MEP.

He has his previous 19 years odd of pension. Plus, I'd imagine, a golden goodbye.

And you don’t think we have already paid in enough to cover all this? We have, and the EU can fuckin whistle."

I think its a pay as you go scheme. So nothing we have paid to date has been to cover future pension liabilities. It's about a quarter to a third of the divorce bill...

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By *evil_u_knowMan
over a year ago

city

sounds great, if you want a country that has interest rates through the roof on the international markets.

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

he makes it sound like hs2 is a project that is stumping up £50bn all at once....

its actually a £50bn project over 25 yrs...........

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By *oncupiscentTonyMan
over a year ago

Kent

All a bit irrelevant really as they'll never win a single seat at Westminster

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By *thwalescplCouple
over a year ago

brecon

I'm not too sure he can afford the "free broadband" idea either, plus its a bit thin on detail... are we talking just "ordinary" BB, or fibre, or G.fast, or ultrafast...etc?

Who will fund the expansion of the fibre network if the Comms Providers don't have that revenue stream, or will a Brexit Party government pay that too?

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

Sounds like a toy town manifesto that would appeal to those with child-like simplicity of thought.

I'd expect someone like an apprentice to be able to knock something like this in a couple of hours.

Some of the masses have been so well conditioned by their rich overlords funding brexit for their own ends, including mopping up assets from their doe-eyed sycophants, it's great relief

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jesus Christ, this manifesto sounds like it has more potential to go hard left economically than labour.

No evidence for funding streams, so I guess it's all borrowing and tax?

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By *asyukMan
over a year ago

West London

"Jesus Christ, this manifesto sounds like it has more potential to go hard left economically than labour.

No evidence for funding streams, so I guess it's all borrowing and tax?"

You know that grammar schools will get into the mix. "More money" for the NHS and Police and armed forces.

Tax cuts too probably.

All tied with a pretty anti-immigrant policy bow.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"lefty liberals really have their panties in a bunch on Twitter. - Good!"

Maybe Nigel can make Fish & Chips Great again for you! You can stop crying about it then

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By *oo hotCouple
over a year ago

North West

"Jesus Christ, this manifesto sounds like it has more potential to go hard left economically than labour.

No evidence for funding streams, so I guess it's all borrowing and tax?"

Once we get to the real meat of the manifesto, things will get interesting because there are both natural left wing and natural right wing politicians in the Brexit mix and so the actual manifesto should be quite an interesting read and somewhat compromised.

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By *vesham cplCouple
over a year ago

Evesham

"Sounds like a toy town manifesto that would appeal to those with child-like simplicity of thought.

I'd expect someone like an apprentice to be able to knock something like this in a couple of hours.

Some of the masses have been so well conditioned by their rich overlords funding brexit for their own ends, including mopping up assets from their doe-eyed sycophants, it's great relief"

Spot on

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By *ara JTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol East

"It's all seems very expensive.

What happened to fiscal responsibility.

Has there been a sudden bloom of money trees for the brexiters.Farage/Boris /Cunt have all been talking big spending plans.

It all reminds me of the pub landlords al Murray and his pledge of a penny a pint if you elect him.

Get ready for the biggest fiscal stimulus since the credit crunch.

Johnson, Hunt and now Farage all promising to splurge the cash.

What cash, you ask?

Corbyn: I'll borrow to invest in infrastructure

Media: No, stop this maniac, he'll bankrupt Britain.

Johnson/Farage/Hunt: I'll borrow to invest in infrastructure

Media: Wow, fantastic idea.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Good luck with borrowing the money especially if they stiff the EU on the settlement

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"It's all seems very expensive.

What happened to fiscal responsibility.

Has there been a sudden bloom of money trees for the brexiters.Farage/Boris /Cunt have all been talking big spending plans.

It all reminds me of the pub landlords al Murray and his pledge of a penny a pint if you elect him.

Get ready for the biggest fiscal stimulus since the credit crunch.

Johnson, Hunt and now Farage all promising to splurge the cash.

What cash, you ask?

Corbyn: I'll borrow to invest in infrastructure

Media: No, stop this maniac, he'll bankrupt Britain.

Johnson/Farage/Hunt: I'll borrow to invest in infrastructure

Media: Wow, fantastic idea.

Very true

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I wonder what he is smoking? lol

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By *ara JTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol East

One of the credit ratings agencies today is predicting two things in the event of a hard exit on October 31:

a) a recession (we are pretty close to it as it is)

b) a downgrading of the sovereign credit rating (which makes Government borrowing more expensive)

They also predict a sharp spike in inflation.

Which in turn puts pressure on the Bank of England to raise interests.

Which in turn puts pressure on industry investment decisions and stretched mortgage payers.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"One of the credit ratings agencies today is predicting two things in the event of a hard exit on October 31:

a) a recession (we are pretty close to it as it is)

b) a downgrading of the sovereign credit rating (which makes Government borrowing more expensive)

They also predict a sharp spike in inflation.

Which in turn puts pressure on the Bank of England to raise interests.

Which in turn puts pressure on industry investment decisions and stretched mortgage payers.

The risk of anything is worth it if it brings Brexit to many people ..

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By *obletonMan
over a year ago

A Home Among The Woodland Creatures

The risk of anything is worth it if it brings Brexit to many people .. "

Anything?

Really?

I suspect you're being just a little hysterical there.

Calm down and say what you really mean

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

The risk of anything is worth it if it brings Brexit to many people ..

Anything?

Really?

I suspect you're being just a little hysterical there.

Calm down and say what you really mean"

Do you think.

I'm just going on what leave voters say on here.

Brexit before Scotland

Brexit before Northern Ireland

Brexit before the economy

Brexit before the Tory party

Brexit before anything basically

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By *obletonMan
over a year ago

A Home Among The Woodland Creatures

The risk of anything is worth it if it brings Brexit to many people ..

Anything?

Really?

I suspect you're being just a little hysterical there.

Calm down and say what you really mean

Do you think.

I'm just going on what leave voters say on here.

Brexit before Scotland

Brexit before Northern Ireland

Brexit before the economy

Brexit before the Tory party

Brexit before anything basically

Aw shucks - I've been Poe'd

Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture stating that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views so obviously exaggerated that it cannot be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of the parodied views.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"So it's looking like The Brexit Party is making a move on policies at last

So, £200 billion of plans.

Focusing outside of bloody London will be nice.

Scrapping the Aid budget is controversial but many will agree with it.

Scrapping HS2 I don't know enough about HS2 to formulate an opinion and the Brussels £39 quid

well that's his stance.

The Brexit Party leader will unveil the bold plan, which includes rebuilding the transport system and free broadband for all homes at a rally in Birmingham.

If Scrapping HS2 is his way I wonder what rebuilding the transport system entails.

I don't see free broadband for everyone a necessity, nice but not a priority for government expenditure.

So Scrapping HS2 and foreign aid and flipping Brussels the finger would still leave the Brexit party needing to find an extra £47billion from other sources.

I know its only a small handful of ideas / policies.

What do you think?

Free broadband, so you can monitor dissenters to his regime,

£200 billion, the north and midlands have been so deprived since 2010 we need 1 trillion to bring them back to pre tory rule.

HS2, its worth it, it will drive growth and move people put of the capital and distribute the wealth in the midlands and the north.

Scrapping the FA budget, its short sighted, because most of that money goes into driving international trade with foreign countries, and when your precious brexit delivered then you cannot grease the palms of your would be trade partners.

In short, the policies are myopic, and are not the panacea this country needs.

Supporters for this party are so thirsty, for the brexit party to throw from the table, they would be grateful, and these polices are a joke.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

" and when your precious brexit delivered then you cannot grease the palms of your would be trade partners.

Brexit isn't anything precious to me, jeez, don't tarnish me with that stinking brush

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

" and when your precious brexit delivered then you cannot grease the palms of your would be trade partners.

Brexit isn't anything precious to me, jeez, don't tarnish me with that stinking brush

So you’re saying brexit is something that only nutjobs and crazy people? who should be committed to a mental asylum, so they are no longer a menace to society?

If so, I apologise

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

" and when your precious brexit delivered then you cannot grease the palms of your would be trade partners.

Brexit isn't anything precious to me, jeez, don't tarnish me with that stinking brush

So you’re saying brexit is something that only nutjobs and crazy people? who should be committed to a mental asylum, so they are no longer a menace to society?

If so, I apologise

Apology accepted

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