VOTE LEAVE

The Vote Leave Team (Andrea Leadsom, Gisela Stuart and Boris Johnson) did an excellent job last night in a full on debate against the Remain side (Amber Rudd, Angela Eagle and Nicola Sturgeon). The Vote Leave Team complemented one another and got their points across well. At one point it looked as if they might be flummoxed, but Gisela Stuart rallied to point out that it has been the ability of British car manufacturers to produce cars that people want that has revived the British car industry – not the Single Market (which is of course the whole point).

It was striking that the more the Remain side lost the argument the nastier they got, and they had a warped view of reality. Amber Rudd had the quaint notion that the Single Market ‘makes us more prosperous at home’ and was deeply impressed with the opinions of ‘experts’. One assumes that she is unaware of the scale of Britain’s balance of trade deficit with the EU. Angela Eagle parroted the Treasury/Osborne allegation that a vote to leave will cause a recession.

Both Angela Eagle and Nicola Sturgeon were delusional regarding the state of Britain’s finances. For example, Angela Eagle was pushing for a Migrant Impact Fund (the English Rights Campaign item on immigration dated the 4^th June deals with this) whereas Nicola Sturgeon, who was very spendthrift with English taxpayers’ monies in her solutions, was advocating that the government should ‘invest’ more in the NHS rather than control immigration.

But where are the resources to come from? Are the Remain side unaware of the scale of the government’s debts or the size of the balance of trade deficit? The idea that resources are finite and have to be prioritized is alien to the Remain camp.

By comparison, the Vote Leave Team rammed home the message that we could divert extra resources to the NHS if we stopped giving money away to the EU.

This was a definite victory for Vote Leave.