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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.

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.