Archibald Tarquin Blenkinsopp wrote

Had everyone lost the plot?

Not everyone, clearly Farage and Boris haven't. Labour certainly has.

I remember seeing this rubbish reported, if anyone took it as anything
but a bit of "sales patter" they really are a bunch of sad *******.

True.

No one can earmark money for a purpose.

The govt can and does.

The treasury gets the money and then dishes it out as it sees fit.

No it does not. The govt decides most of what happens.

Bankers, various government consultants and duck house
projects would be first in the pecking order for funds anyway.

Not when the govt wasn't to get re-elected.

Poiticians can promise to direct rescources to specifics
if they achieve power, but even that action requires a
bit of faith & hope on the part of their followers.

Sure.

It would have been more accurate to say that "there could
be more money in the pot, but as it involves putting faith
in the promises of a bunch of clowns it's unlikely"

Particularly when that particular one has no possibility what
so ever of ever being the govt, and will become completely
politically irrelevant when Britain is out of the EU unless
someone like Boris is actually stupid enough to give into
the EU demands to get a free trade agreement with the EU.

Promises to spend cash on the NHS were trivia not worth reporting

Particularly if Farage had ever actually done that. He didn't.

It would never be under Ukips control anyway, not a penny!

True.

On Tue, 28 Jun 2016 21:24:21 +0100, dennis@home
wrote:

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