If any of you came to see me for a urological problem, and I recommended surgery, you’d want to know more about it. 1/
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So if we apply these principles to any operation, then why on earth are we as a country not applying them to the biggest change that’s about to hit all of us? These questions should’ve been answered in 2016 before the referendum. 7/
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Were we told by Vote Leave about what would be done in preparation for the triggering of Article 50? Certainly no plan was agreed until summer with the Chequers White Paper, and certainly nothing for No Deal until November, by which time it’ll be far too late. 8/
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Were we told by Vote Leave about what would happen during the triggering of Article 50, and how the timetable of talks would progress, including key deadlines? 9/
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Were we told by Vote Leave about the consequences of No Deal which we’ve found out will hit us in terms of the M20 and M26 being turned into carparks, stockpiling of medicines, special government ships to bring in food and planes being grounded? 10/
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Not to mention 20+ WTO members now objecting to our trading schedules from April, as well as the decimation of manufacturing in this country as the big car and aeroplane companies leave to set up base within the rest of the EU? 11/
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And adding in the departures of the European Medicines Agency and European Banking Authority from London, our withdrawal from Euratom, the tearing up of the Good Friday Agreement, and how our NHS will actually LOSE money instead of getting £350m a week? 12/
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Were we told by Vote Leave about how long it’d take for us to truly see a benefit from Brexit, with JRM saying it’ll be another 50 years before we recover and are able to start earning as before? 13/
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We were told by Vote Leave what would happen if we all remained - 76m Turks would invade the country, an EU Army would send tanks rolling into Stoke-on-Trent, we’d all be earning more, and our grandchildren would be speaking Romanian as their first language. 14/
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So in summary, Vote Leave recommendation an unnecessary operation, did nothing to prepare for it, hadn’t a clue about what would happen during it, didn’t tell us at all about the multiple complications, and lied about the loss of earnings (in fact it was going to be more!) 15/
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If I as a surgeon behaved in the consent phase as Vote Leave had, then I’d have multiple complaints made against me, be thoroughly investigated, and be deservedly struck off. 16/
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So if we’re all prepared to apply these principles of INFORMED CONSENT to our health, then why not to the future of our country as well as those of our children and grandchildren? There’s still time to read the facts, change your mind, and withdraw consent.
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