Word of the Year 2016 - Oxford Dictionaries - YouTube
Why "post-truth" is word of the year 2016 - Sky News
'Post-Truth' Is Just A Rip-Off Of 'Truthiness' - The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
See also:
Futures Forum: Big data and big lies...
This is of course connected to the 'truths' proferred during the referendum campaign:
Futures Forum: Brexit: and post-fact politics
Which is in turn connected to the promises made about spending on the much beleaguered NHS:
Futures Forum: Brexit: and the NHS in Devon
Following on from the Autumn Statement's revelations of how much we are actually in debt, the Independent has run the following piece:
There's a new slogan for Brexit...
At the Autumn Statement no Wednesday, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond conceded that Brexit will blow a £59 billion black hole in public finances.
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) announced that there would be a cumulative £122 billion of extra borrowing over the next five years, £59 billion of which will occur as a direct result of the vote to leave the EU.
Hammond told the House of Commons:
[Brexit] makes more urgent than ever the need to tackle our economy’s long-term weaknesses, like the productivity gap, the housing challenge, and the damaging imbalance in economic growth and prosperity across our country.
The reaction to the £58.7 billion news was predictable.
One line stuck out above all:
So we did.
Today @ev_bartlett commissioned me to photoshop the Vote Leave battlebus. I like this one better.
And we weren't the only ones:
Britain is paying over £350 million a week for Brexit #AutumnStatement
The NHS was mentioned twice in the statement:
The government, Mr Speaker, has pledged to invest in our NHS and we are delivering on that promise: backing the NHS’ Five Year Forward View plan for the future with £10 billion of additional funding a year by the end of 2020-21.
The Health Select Committee has said that the government's extra funding for health is actually £4.5 billion rather than £10 billion, and FullFact agrees with their conclusion:
Overall health spending will increase by £4.5 billion, after you take inflation into account. The £10 billion includes an extra year of spending and only refers to the NHS England budget rather than wider health spending.
The £10 billion figure is calculated over six years, counting a year's worth of money that has already been spent in a previous parliament.
Brexit means Brexit.
There's a new slogan for Brexit... | indy100
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