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Post by Davef on Dec 29, 2022 13:12:57 GMT
a quick reminder to book your holidays in this year. in 12 months time, the tories who lied to you about brexit, have decided that one of the brexit dividends is to stop your paid holiday. The tweet then links to a story telling us what the Brexit Freedoms Bill MIGHT mean for employment law. Clickbait bollocks.
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Post by toppercorner on Dec 29, 2022 14:00:57 GMT
a quick reminder to book your holidays in this year. in 12 months time, the tories who lied to you about brexit, have decided that one of the brexit dividends is to stop your paid holiday. The tweet then links to a story telling us what the Brexit Freedoms Bill MIGHT mean for employment law. Clickbait bollocks. i wouldn't be so sure. rees-mogg has been open about his desire to get rid of holiday pay, which easily found on the internet. and bills.parliament.uk/publications/48432/documents/2434page 2, para 5 First, the Bill sets a default that will ‘turn off’ employment rights covering holiday pay, agency workers, part-time and fixed-term workers, maximum working weeks for office workers, HGV drivers and fisherman and abolish maximum annual hours for commercial pilots, and no longer preserve the employment contracts of workers when their business is bought by another. There are many other rights which are affected that we consider below. page 3 para 7 Abolishing direct effect removes rights such as a facet of equal pay law which is being used by tens of thousands of women to claim equality with better paid men. It sets a default to abolish rights such as the right to normal pay during holiday enjoyed by millions of workers or the ability to carry over holiday (and with it holiday pay) from one year to another when sick. It sets a default to remove from UK law, the legal reasoning that has helped to extend discrimination and other protections to atypical and gig workers. The question is, do you really believe the Tories won't go for this? Brexit was all about deregulation, and this is part of it. They're going to fill their own, and friends boots, and do as much damage as possible without a care in the world for others, during the next 18 months before the general election. It's currently at the bill presentation stage, but with an 80 seat majority (including the likes of Gullis), they'll easily vote this though before they're all effectively voted out.
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Post by oggyoggy on Dec 29, 2022 17:39:46 GMT
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Post by wannabee on Dec 29, 2022 19:53:14 GMT
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Post by Paul Spencer on Dec 29, 2022 21:57:46 GMT
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Post by bayernoatcake on Dec 30, 2022 2:49:55 GMT
a quick reminder to book your holidays in this year. in 12 months time, the tories who lied to you about brexit, have decided that one of the brexit dividends is to stop your paid holiday. The tweet then links to a story telling us what the Brexit Freedoms Bill MIGHT mean for employment law. Clickbait bollocks. Do you think they wouldn’t do it? The evidence suggests they absolutely will.
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Post by oggyoggy on Dec 30, 2022 13:24:01 GMT
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/30/uk-ministers-pledged-to-match-eu-spending-after-brexit-hows-that-goingWe were told by brexiteers that the UK government would match all the financial benefits poured directly into local areas for things such as infrastructure. We were lied to, again, by brexiteers. Brexit is turning out exactly as remainers expected. An absolute disaster with no significant upsides whatsoever. Certainly no tangible upside has been demonstrated or spoken about by any brexiteer since we left. Yet we continue to be lied to and are told we will “seize the opportunities brexit presents”. Nobody can tangibly point to any though.
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Post by foghornsgleghorn on Dec 31, 2022 16:41:52 GMT
Well that's 2022 just about wrapped up.
Is that just the 48 years to go until Rees-Mogg's unicorns come galloping over the horizon?
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Post by mrcoke on Dec 31, 2022 16:59:33 GMT
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Post by wannabee on Dec 31, 2022 22:58:01 GMT
A rather strange measure to gauge the heath of UK Economy but to each their own The biggest UK Unicorn Checkout.com which was set up by Swiss Dubai based entrepreneur Guillaume Pousaz 2 weeks ago reduced their valuation from $40B to $11B I wonder how much Tax they paid in UK last year, yea less than you or I Their main competitor in the Internet payments business Stripe was set up by two Irish Lads the Coulson Brothers and is valued at $95B and is registered in San Fran It just goes to show that registrations are a matter of convenience and where taxes are paid, if any, are where its at. This market is dominated by the US followed by China with UK a distant 4th with about 3% of the Worldwide Market Please do not claim this as a Brexit Bonus as it will only make you look foolish
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Post by oggyoggy on Jan 1, 2023 9:10:57 GMT
Yes, before we left the EU it was impossible to start a successful business here…
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Post by toppercorner on Jan 1, 2023 17:05:45 GMT
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Post by oggyoggy on Jan 1, 2023 19:48:26 GMT
Great. But brexit has been a disaster. “The evidence now encompasses reduced trade, diminished investment and the fact that the UK has been the only major economy not to have returned to its pre-pandemic size. Brexit has resulted in a hit to tax revenues estimated at an annual £40bn – enough to have prevented 75% of the spending cuts and tax rises that were announced in November. Meanwhile, amid impossible passport queues and howls of pain from businesses now tied up in red tape, stories that symbolise the folly of our exit from the EU seem to arrive at least one a week. Just before Christmas, for instance, it was reported that the Metropolitan police would now be buying armoured ministerial cars from the German manufacturer Audi because no UK firm was “able to meet the requirements of the tender”. Here was more proof of the supply-chain problems that are afflicting British producers, and a malaise that has caused annual UK car production to fall by more than half since 2016.” “MPs are pressing Rishi Sunak to stick to a deadline of 31 December 2023 for “reviewing or revoking” EU laws that still apply to the UK” “The task will involve hundreds of Whitehall civil servants forensically assessing nearly 2,500 pieces of retained EU legislation, and the CBI says the plan is likely to produce “a further drag on growth”. www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/01/wreckage-of-brexit-politicians-denial
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Post by smallthorner on Jan 1, 2023 20:02:18 GMT
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Post by Huddysleftfoot on Jan 2, 2023 0:04:37 GMT
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Post by oggyoggy on Jan 2, 2023 9:01:40 GMT
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Post by mrcoke on Jan 2, 2023 12:37:43 GMT
The poll says people are in favour of a referendum not in favour of rejoining, but maybe that is a minor technicality. I am in favour of another referendum, it may be the only way of settling the matter instead of the constant moaning, but I doubt that the politicians will ever allow the people to make a decision again for a very long time, because they can't be trusted to come up with the desired result! Only Switzerland puts important decisions in the hands of the people. Personally I would trust the public, which is why I am not in favour of PR, which hands all the decision making to a perpetual group of senior politicians who go into secret sessions to decide policy and who gets what job. As we saw with the LibDems in 2010 all manifesto policies and principles go in the bin when there is power to be grabbed. If there was another referendum I would be quite confident that most voters would choose not to rejoin if all the facts were presented to them. I notice today that the BBC has published an anti Brexit article, listing all the downside of relations with the EU, even to the point of stating that the UK - EU trade agreement has not increased trade. The trade agreement was made to protect trade with the EU as far as possible, whilst the UK is now free to grow trade with the rest of the world, free from EU trade restrictions. It will obviously take time to grow trade but the non-EU world represents 80% of the world economy and is growing a lot faster than the EU. The BBC article plays down the 70+ trade agreements that the UK has made, saying they were simply rolling over existing EU agreements. They have forgotten that those opposed to Brexit were claiming that " little UK" would be too weak to negotiate the same terms as the mighty EU. The BBC also say Brexit has caused inflation due to labour shortages causing employers to have to increase prices to pay higher wages. I prefer to look at the positive side; since leaving the EU unemployment in the UK is at the lowest level for half a century, since before joining the EEC in fact. Would people want to return to freedom of movement, allow EU nationals to come in taking jobs, and returning to higher levels of unemployment? Immigration is at record levels, but those who arrive to work do so to be engaged in much needed jobs like the health service, not displacing British workers. Some people may want to hand over law making and judicial decisions to the EU, I am against it. In trade for example, I prefer the UK trade secretary represents UK interests at the WTO not some unelected bureaucrat from Brussels. I am in favour of controlling our own fishing waters and phasing out the CAP. I am in favour of controlling our own fiscal policy not the EU Commission; if we mess up like Truss did, we can get rid, as we have done with her and Johnson. Sunak has another year to pull the fat out of the fire or he will be toast, and Starmer will hold the reins, unless the loony left persuade him to take an anti Brexit stance.
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Post by dutchstokie on Jan 2, 2023 13:08:47 GMT
The poll says people are in favour of a referendum not in favour of rejoining, but maybe that is a minor technicality. I am in favour of another referendum, it may be the only way of settling the matter instead of the constant moaning, but I doubt that the politicians will ever allow the people to make a decision again for a very long time, because they can't be trusted to come up with the desired result! Only Switzerland puts important decisions in the hands of the people. Personally I would trust the public, which is why I am not in favour of PR, which hands all the decision making to a perpetual group of senior politicians who go into secret sessions to decide policy and who gets what job. As we saw with the LibDems in 2010 all manifesto policies and principles go in the bin when there is power to be grabbed. If there was another referendum I would be quite confident that most voters would choose not to rejoin if all the facts were presented to them. I notice today that the BBC has published an anti Brexit article, listing all the downside of relations with the EU, even to the point of stating that the UK - EU trade agreement has not increased trade. The trade agreement was made to protect trade with the EU as far as possible, whilst the UK is now free to grow trade with the rest of the world, free from EU trade restrictions. It will obviously take time to grow trade but the non-EU world represents 80% of the world economy and is growing a lot faster than the EU. The BBC article plays down the 70+ trade agreements that the UK has made, saying they were simply rolling over existing EU agreements. They have forgotten that those opposed to Brexit were claiming that " little UK" would be too weak to negotiate the same terms as the mighty EU. The BBC also say Brexit has caused inflation due to labour shortages causing employers to have to increase prices to pay higher wages. I prefer to look at the positive side; since leaving the EU unemployment in the UK is at the lowest level for half a century, since before joining the EEC in fact. Would people want to return to freedom of movement, allow EU nationals to come in taking jobs, and returning to higher levels of unemployment? Immigration is at record levels, but those who arrive to work do so to be engaged in much needed jobs like the health service, not displacing British workers. Some people may want to hand over law making and judicial decisions to the EU, I am against it. In trade for example, I prefer the UK trade secretary represents UK interests at the WTO not some unelected bureaucrat from Brussels. I am in favour of controlling our own fishing waters and phasing out the CAP. I am in favour of controlling our own fiscal policy not the EU Commission; if we mess up like Truss did, we can get rid, as we have done with her and Johnson. Sunak has another year to pull the fat out of the fire or he will be toast, and Starmer will hold the reins, unless the loony left persuade him to take an anti Brexit stance. We could have a 'best of 3' !!
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Jan 2, 2023 16:07:15 GMT
The poll says people are in favour of a referendum not in favour of rejoining, but maybe that is a minor technicality. I am in favour of another referendum, it may be the only way of settling the matter instead of the constant moaning, but I doubt that the politicians will ever allow the people to make a decision again for a very long time, because they can't be trusted to come up with the desired result! Only Switzerland puts important decisions in the hands of the people. Personally I would trust the public, which is why I am not in favour of PR, which hands all the decision making to a perpetual group of senior politicians who go into secret sessions to decide policy and who gets what job. As we saw with the LibDems in 2010 all manifesto policies and principles go in the bin when there is power to be grabbed. If there was another referendum I would be quite confident that most voters would choose not to rejoin if all the facts were presented to them. I notice today that the BBC has published an anti Brexit article, listing all the downside of relations with the EU, even to the point of stating that the UK - EU trade agreement has not increased trade. The trade agreement was made to protect trade with the EU as far as possible, whilst the UK is now free to grow trade with the rest of the world, free from EU trade restrictions. It will obviously take time to grow trade but the non-EU world represents 80% of the world economy and is growing a lot faster than the EU. The BBC article plays down the 70+ trade agreements that the UK has made, saying they were simply rolling over existing EU agreements. They have forgotten that those opposed to Brexit were claiming that " little UK" would be too weak to negotiate the same terms as the mighty EU. The BBC also say Brexit has caused inflation due to labour shortages causing employers to have to increase prices to pay higher wages. I prefer to look at the positive side; since leaving the EU unemployment in the UK is at the lowest level for half a century, since before joining the EEC in fact. Would people want to return to freedom of movement, allow EU nationals to come in taking jobs, and returning to higher levels of unemployment? Immigration is at record levels, but those who arrive to work do so to be engaged in much needed jobs like the health service, not displacing British workers. Some people may want to hand over law making and judicial decisions to the EU, I am against it. In trade for example, I prefer the UK trade secretary represents UK interests at the WTO not some unelected bureaucrat from Brussels. I am in favour of controlling our own fishing waters and phasing out the CAP. I am in favour of controlling our own fiscal policy not the EU Commission; if we mess up like Truss did, we can get rid, as we have done with her and Johnson. Sunak has another year to pull the fat out of the fire or he will be toast, and Starmer will hold the reins, unless the loony left persuade him to take an anti Brexit stance. Take your pick from: "CER is an anti-Brexit organisation"; "The Independent is an anti-Brexit paper"; "their figures are wrong, here are mine"; "short term pain only"; "I'm confident Britain will outperform its rivals in due course"; "it's bad government not Brexit"; "we can change our bad government [with no admission it was that bad govt that wanted Brexit!]" Or all of the above. Substitute BBC for the Independent and I count at least four, arguably five of those goto boxes ticked by MrCoke this time around...
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Post by wannabee on Jan 2, 2023 16:31:31 GMT
The poll says people are in favour of a referendum not in favour of rejoining, but maybe that is a minor technicality. It's not only a minor technicality, it is grasping at straws. The full analysis of this and other Polls show a very clear majority of people now accept that they were sold a Pig in a Poke. Like the numerous reasons for Voting for Brexit there are now numerous reasons why people are dissolutioned, the 3 main reasons being. The Economy is far worse outside EU, taking back Control of Borders is a Joke and UK standing in the World has been diminished I am in favour of another referendum, it may be the only way of settling the matter instead of the constant moaning, but I doubt that the politicians will ever allow the people to make a decision again for a very long time, because they can't be trusted to come up with the desired result! It's highly unlikely we will see a Referendum in this or the next Parliament In the likely event Labour win the next Election Starmer is a Politician. He won the Labour Leadership by saying he would pursue the same Policies as Corbyn and then did the exact opposite EU Membership will be nowhere near Labour's Manifesto for next Election (no Party follows them anyway) but in practice by forging ever closer links with EU on Standards etc subliminally the difference between being officially in or out will be marginal like Switzerland and Norway Only Switzerland puts important decisions in the hands of the people. This is incorrect Slovenia has an equally if not superior form of Direct Democracy and finds no conflict with this within EU. In fact most European Countries with a written Constitution have some form of Referendum Confirmation of Constitutional changes It is the UK which is the outlier Personally I would trust the public, which is why I am not in favour of PR, which hands all the decision making to a perpetual group of senior politicians who go into secret sessions to decide policy and who gets what job You only have to look at the results of the last GE to see this is Poppycock. We have had 3 PMs in that period and dozens of Ministerial changes and of Policy Direction in the last three years without any recourse to the Electorate This is a Government that won 43% of Votes cast or 29% of the Electorate If you think this is Democratic or Representative of the People then I'm a Banana
As we saw with the LibDems in 2010 all manifesto policies and principles go in the bin when there is power to be grabbed. Some would argue that the worst excesses of Conservative Austerity was tempered by LibDems, its for History and others to decideIf there was another referendum I would be quite confident that most voters would choose not to rejoin if all the facts were presented to them. Except every Poll says different Your Caveat of course might come into play again as to how many lies might be told and supported by a complicit media and how much influence and money Foreign Powers might choose to invest like Russia in 2016
I notice today that the BBC has published an anti Brexit article, listing all the downside of relations with the EU, even to the point of stating that the UK - EU trade agreement has not increased trade. I haven't read the Article but of course Trade Imports/Exports have suffered The trade agreement was made to protect trade with the EU as far as possible, It wasn't, it was the thinnest Trade Agreement available and even then gigantic lies were told that their would be no Non Tarrif Barriers GB/EU or GB/NI in order to win an Election to get it passed whilst the UK is now free to grow trade with the rest of the world, free from EU trade restrictions. It will obviously take time to grow trade but the non-EU world represents 80% of the world economy and is growing a lot faster than the EU. The 3 Independent Agreements Australia, New Zealand and Japan have a combined Economic Benefit of less than 0.2% to GDP over 15 years. The most recent with Israel the Government won't even submit to OBR for fear of further ridicule. Another Brexit Pledge that was broken is that New Trade Agreements would be subject to Parliamentary Scrutiny, they weren't Is this your idea of Sovereignty?
The BBC article plays down the 70+ trade agreements that the UK has made, saying they were simply rolling over existing EU agreements. They have forgotten that those opposed to Brexit were claiming that " little UK" would be too weak to negotiate the same terms as the mighty EU. You have said this several times before and I have challenged you to provide a Credible Source. Why would Countries walk away from Trade Agreements, only UK is stupid enough to do this
The BBC also say Brexit has caused inflation due to labour shortages causing employers to have to increase prices to pay higher wages. I prefer to look at the positive side; since leaving the EU unemployment in the UK is at the lowest level for half a century, since before joining the EEC in fact. Would people want to return to freedom of movement, allow EU nationals to come in taking jobs, and returning to higher levels of unemployment? You are aware that 600K people left the Workforce post Covid. Not only is UK unique for its Economy not recovering to Pre Pandemic levels but is the only developed Country where its Workforce is below Pre-pandemic levels There are 9 Million People in UK between the ages of 16-64 who choose to be Economically Inactive and are either Students, Long term health conditions, early retirees or Carers for Young Children or Elderly Relatives Immigration is at record levels, but those who arrive to work do so to be engaged in much needed jobs like the health service, not displacing British workers. Again not true the biggest cohort to increased Immigration were to Students primarily from India who can now avail of 3 year Visas
Some people may want to hand over law making and judicial decisions to the EU, I am against it. This is entirely egregious The Brexit Bonfire Retained Law Bill 2022 is currently going through Parliament without Parliamentary scrutiny It places Sunset Clauses on approximately 2500 pieces of Legislation which the Minister in charge may retain, ammend or discard entirely at his whim. Do you think this is Sovereign or Democratic? In trade for example, I prefer the UK trade secretary represents UK interests at the WTO not some unelected bureaucrat from Brussels. Surely if UK is successful in concluding Trade Agreements all around the World then WTO becomes irrelevant In any case whoever is representing UK at WTO may find themselves extremely busy defending UKs position as under WTO Most Favoured Nation Rules UK must apply same Rules unless covered by Trade Agreement The UKs failure to perform Import checks on EU Goods puts UK in direct contravention of this and all other Countries will request equal treatment This is another great way to Take Control of our Borders, Not.I am in favour of controlling our own fishing waters and phasing out the CAP. I am glad you are happy. The people that represent Fishing and Farming are far from happy and much prefer the EU arrangements The Government Minister that negotiated the Australia Trade Deal has publicly declared it a bad deal for Farmers. This doesn't even touch on the reduced funding and scrutiny to protect the Environment I am in favour of controlling our own fiscal policy not the EU Commission; if we mess up like Truss did, we can get rid, as we have done with her and Johnson. "We" didn't get rid of anyone. The Conservative Party got rid of Johnson when they saw his actions could no longer be tolerated if they wanted to be reelected The Markets got rid of Truss Sunak has another year to pull the fat out of the fire or he will be toast, and Starmer will hold the reins, unless the loony left persuade him to take an anti Brexit stance. As I said above Starmer will take the Politicians pragmatic approach to subliminally allign UK ever more closely with EU, You know it makes sense Rodney
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Post by Paul Spencer on Jan 2, 2023 23:50:55 GMT
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Post by wannabee on Jan 3, 2023 0:51:29 GMT
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Post by OldStokie on Jan 3, 2023 13:08:50 GMT
Staggering propaganda a la Putin style. Some people need to go to jail for this stuff. M.
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Jan 3, 2023 13:54:19 GMT
Staggering propaganda a la Putin style. Some people need to go to jail for this stuff. M. Amazing isn't it. Our NHS is broken, let's fix it by giving it £350m a week that would normally go to the EU. Several years later - there's no money for nurses payrises and the NHS is even worse. Where's that £350m a week gone? How can anyone still cling to thinking Brexit was a good idea?
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Post by oggyoggy on Jan 3, 2023 15:33:34 GMT
I wonder how Mr Coke will excuse/justify this?
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Post by mrcoke on Jan 3, 2023 16:25:13 GMT
I wonder how Mr Coke will excuse/justify this? The state of the NHS is nothing to do with Brexit. Paul's post is on the wrong thread. The state of the NHS has everything to do with 12 years of Tory government, the impacts of the pandemic, the general shortage of medical staff world wide, the increased demand due to the latest Covid/flu rise, increasing population, aging population, etc, etc. The ITV News reviewed all the issues this lunchtime and Brexit wasn't mentioned. Strikes was, (by them, not me). The head of NHS cancer treatment spoke at length, very impressively, and didn't mention Brexit either. He basically said the NHS had the highest number of staff in its history, and treating record numbers of people for cancer, particularly stage 1 and 2 cases, which he said is most important. The problem is the NHS is being overwhelmed by referrals that went up 20% for cancer last year, on top of the huge backlog due to the pandemic. They are working as hard and as fast as they can. Brexit has had no measurable impact on the NHS.
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Jan 3, 2023 16:27:40 GMT
I wonder how Mr Coke will excuse/justify this? The state of the NHS is nothing to do with Brexit. Paul's post is on the wrong thread. The state of the NHS has everything to do with 12 years of Tory government, the impacts of the pandemic, the general shortage of medical staff world wide, the increased demand due to the latest Covid/flu rise, increasing population, aging population, etc, etc. The ITV News reviewed all the issues this lunchtime and Brexit wasn't mentioned. Strikes was, (by them, not me). The head of NHS cancer treatment spoke at length, very impressively, and didn't mention Brexit either. He basically said the NHS had the highest number of staff in its history, and treating record numbers of people for cancer, particularly stage 1 and 2 cases, which he said is most important. The problem is the NHS is being overwhelmed by referrals that went up 20% for cancer last year, on top of the huge backlog due to the pandemic. They are working as hard and as fast as they can. Brexit has had no measurable impact on the NHS. But it might have done if £18bn a year every year was being diverted to it. Like was indicated many times over (see ads above). Where's all that money gone, Coke?
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Post by superjw on Jan 3, 2023 16:48:16 GMT
Staggering propaganda a la Putin style. Some people need to go to jail for this stuff. M. Amazing isn't it. Our NHS is broken, let's fix it by giving it £350m a week that would normally go to the EU. Several years later - there's no money for nurses payrises and the NHS is even worse. Where's that £350m a week gone? How can anyone still cling to thinking Brexit was a good idea? Brexit wasn't a good idea, but let's say we had a parallel reality where brexit never happened, the NHS would be in exactly the same position as it is now and the headlines would still read the same. Remaining in the EU wouldn't have changed anything for the NHS, but yes that £350m lie would have helped if it were a reality.
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Post by Paul Spencer on Jan 3, 2023 16:54:21 GMT
I wonder how Mr Coke will excuse/justify this? The state of the NHS is nothing to do with Brexit. Paul's post is on the wrong thread. The state of the NHS has everything to do with 12 years of Tory government, the impacts of the pandemic, the general shortage of medical staff world wide, the increased demand due to the latest Covid/flu rise, increasing population, aging population, etc, etc. The ITV News reviewed all the issues this lunchtime and Brexit wasn't mentioned. Strikes was, (by them, not me). The head of NHS cancer treatment spoke at length, very impressively, and didn't mention Brexit either. He basically said the NHS had the highest number of staff in its history, and treating record numbers of people for cancer, particularly stage 1 and 2 cases, which he said is most important. The problem is the NHS is being overwhelmed by referrals that went up 20% for cancer last year, on top of the huge backlog due to the pandemic. They are working as hard and as fast as they can. Brexit has had no measurable impact on the NHS. With respect, you've completely and totally missed the point of the tweet. That being, that it's ANOTHER example of the deliberate lies that were used by the leave campaign to mislead the British public. THAT'S what it's about, it's NOT blaming Brexit for the current state of the NHS and it's not on the wrong thread.
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Post by mrcoke on Jan 3, 2023 17:00:19 GMT
The state of the NHS is nothing to do with Brexit. Paul's post is on the wrong thread. The state of the NHS has everything to do with 12 years of Tory government, the impacts of the pandemic, the general shortage of medical staff world wide, the increased demand due to the latest Covid/flu rise, increasing population, aging population, etc, etc. The ITV News reviewed all the issues this lunchtime and Brexit wasn't mentioned. Strikes was, (by them, not me). The head of NHS cancer treatment spoke at length, very impressively, and didn't mention Brexit either. He basically said the NHS had the highest number of staff in its history, and treating record numbers of people for cancer, particularly stage 1 and 2 cases, which he said is most important. The problem is the NHS is being overwhelmed by referrals that went up 20% for cancer last year, on top of the huge backlog due to the pandemic. They are working as hard and as fast as they can. Brexit has had no measurable impact on the NHS. But it might have done if £18bn a year every year was being diverted to it. Like was indicated many times over (see ads above). Where's all that money gone, Coke? The advert was in 2016. In case you've forgotten in 2019 a world pandemic broke out. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemicAll the promises made in 2016 and the general election in 2019 went up in smoke. By April 2020 the world economy had collapsed. Millions of people were "furloughed" at huge expense, vastly increasing national debt. Countries throughout the world have huge medical problems. Take a look at WHO reports. I could go on further but I suspect I am wasting my time. Brexit has had no measurable impact on the NHS.
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