No new money earmarked for NI in UK’s first post-Brexit budget
Stormont: The Tories allocated an extra £400 million to NI last September – but will they honour their promise to stump up the £290 million from Theresa May’s ‘confidence and supply’ agreement with the DUP?
Is this a good enough reason to quit the UK?
It will, at the very least, be something to talk about after the devolved government of Northern Ireland returns to duty this weekend.
Sajid Javid – and Boris Johnson – may have reason to regret promising the Earth in September and leaving themselves with nothing to offer after the December election.
Or will they say the Northern Irish should be glad they haven’t reneged on their September promises?
And £290 million remains unspent out of the ‘bribe’ that Theresa May promised Northern Ireland in her ‘confidence and supply’ agreement that launched us into two and a half years of dither and delay on Brexit.
Will Javid and Johnson honour that agreement, or will they claw that cash back?
Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer, Sajid Javid, has not yet earmarked any “new” money for Northern Ireland at the beginning of the UK’s budget process to prepare for its first post-Brexit budget on March 11th.
The chancellor has claimed that his budget will “start a new chapter” for the UK economy and enable it to seize “the opportunities that come from getting Brexit done”.
“Since 2015 we have cut taxes for 760,000 people in Northern Ireland. Next year we will increase the Executive’s budget by £400 million [€471 million] and by 2020 we will save the average car driver £1,000 by freezing fuel duty,” Mr Javid stated.
However, the £400 million increase that the chancellor has promised is on the way to Northern Ireland next year is money that he had already previously allocated to the North back in September 2019.
A spokesman for the UK Treasury confirmed that the £400 million Mr Javid has referenced was “not new money”.
Source: No new money earmarked for North in UK’s first post-Brexit budget
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They might get the bribe money or Boris Johnstone and his team could play dirty and say that money was when Theresa may was the PM but since then she has left and Boris johnstone is now the PM and its new people under Boris Johnstone you have not made a deal with Boris Johnstone so you won’t receive a single penny of the bribe money