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Brexit Update – 5 th September 2019

  A Brexit Update - 4th September 2019

While I have explored many areas that will be impacted by Brexit I have yet to delve into the effects it will have on the National Health Service. I know the headlines and some basic facts which have been spread around but, like many, I have not taken the time to really look behind the propaganda and basic headlines. In this article, I have decided to change that. Here I try and investigate some of the key areas as I see them; staffing, medical supplies, budgets and research.

Boris Johnson the Clown made Prime Minister Boris the Clown is now our Prime Minister, or is that Prime Minister of the Union, as he now wants to be called? But when he is called the clown I don’t think of a normal sad or happy clown, I think of Pennywise the clown from the Stephen King novel IT, a demonic entity hell bent on devouring those less powerful than him and who in the end is defeated by children. Sorry for the spoilers there. It’s only been a few days and PM Johnson has made a few grandiose speeches about saving the union and making the UK the best country in the world and blah blah blah. So, what are these promises? How does he plan to make them come true? And what other changes has he made?

Over the past few weeks I have done a bit of tweeting and I admit that sometimes I can get a bit wound up by responses from people who have closed off their minds and refuse to even think about what Brexit will really do to the UK. In this piece I decided to try and look at the various pro Brexit arguments have heard and then use the facts at hand to see if they are valid. The ultimate aim here is twofold. First, instead of trying to engage one on one in pointless Twitter wars I decided to write down my arguments, hopefully this will help me keep calm about the subject. Second if it brings around one doubting Leaver by using the facts and not propaganda then it will have done some external good as well.

The start of the EU Parliament session is not an event which is given massively extensive coverage in the UK. It’s noted that it has happened, anything out of the ordinary is given some level of coverage before the media move swiftly onto something else. That is until the people Britain elects to represent them turn up and act like utter fools.

We have all read and heard about the recent (and not so recent) spate of stabbings in London and in other areas around the country. While all forms of killing are awful, being stabbed must be one of the worst. It is up close, almost always premeditated and rarely a quick way to die. The brutality of it lives with both the attacker and, if they survive, the victim for the rest of their days. But what is behind this rise? The government blame everyone but themselves as usual saying it’s not all about money and everyone must step up to this scourge. Sounds good in principle but let’s take a closer look.

Well that cleared everything up didn't it…. OK maybe not. To start with it was the wrong format. The BBC claimed there was not enough time to pull a representative audience together. Weird as Channel 4, an organisation with less resources, managed to do it with even less time. It also needed to be longer and the candidates needed to show a little decorum or at least be put in their place more. I got the feeling they wouldn't have tried to talk over a male presenter as much, and that is not a dig at Emily Maitlis, who I felt did very well, it is a reflection of the candidates lack of respect for a female presenter trying to do her job. Makes you wonder how they would react when speaking with Angela Merkel, Jacinda Ardern, Erna Solberg or any of the many other female heads of state. Feels like an embarrassment for the UK just waiting to happen.

Wow what a selection we have to, well not choose from since we don't get a vote on who our next Prime Minister is, all we can do is wonder which drug using, elitist, selfish,.....you get the point, will take up the reigns and lead us into ruin.  From the time we all knew this was going to happen the candidates have been spouting some of worst ideas to come into their heads. Actually, scratch that they are probably not the worst ideas they have which is even more worrying.

In the news recently was a report about a woman who had killed her husband. Originally convicted of murder she had her sentence reduced to manslaughter due to a psychological condition brought on by the abuse she suffered at the hands of her husband for years.

Is the UK political system, and other similar systems across the world, broken? This question is not aimed at countries which are known dictatorships or monarchies. This is aimed at what are regarded as true democracies where there is more than one party and elections are more or less free and fair. For the most part I'm focusing on the UK since that's the system I'm most familiar with, but the question still stands for elsewhere.

Like the title suggests this will most likely be the first of many rants about the, well I was going call it farce, but while there are many funny things about the Brexit process the thing itself is not. Think of a dragon swooping down out the sky. It flies o ver Lond on a few times then smashes into Number 10, says "boo" to the PM who simply looks back up at it denying it could mean anything other than an opportunity to declare the superiority of the British Empire at which point the dragon eats the PM, takes a big dump in the nearest conference room and leaves. Everyone thinks this is fucking hilarious until you realise that some fucking idiot in the Tory party let the bloody thing out and it is now eating everyone in sight because it doesn't fucking care about anyone and probably worst of all the UK has to face up to the fact that Boris Johnson is probably now PM and Jacob Rees- Mogg is Chancellor. So yeah really funny until everyone is poor and dying.

I feel that after outlining what I going to be writing about on this blog that need to pick my first subject carefully. But before I do that, I want to be clear. I am not an investigative journalist. I do read a fair amount, especially when it comes to the news. If there is something I feel I don't understand then I do like to look it up and do a bit of basic fact checking. But this blog should be considered, as with most of the news these days, as an opinion and not absolute fact. I am not doing this to spread lies or bring people down.

The World needs saving. It's a rather bold statement if somewhat obvious. But saving from what? Today the world and the people in it probably face more cataclysmic dangers than at any other time in history. Disease, war, climate change, environmental disasters, new technology and let's face it people in general.