Thread by @gameoldgirl

A gloomy thread on guess what:

People are going to die because of #Brexit.
There are many reasons why people may die as a consequence of the 2016 referendum.
Not all will come to pass. But at least some will - and some already have.
So be in no doubt, people *will* die.
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They may die because they do not get the medicines they need.
They may die because of strains on the NHS through lack of staff.
They may die because a trade deal with Trump involves a revolution in healthcare that takes it beyond reach of the poorest.
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They may die early because they cannot afford a healthy diet when there are food shortages and price rises.
They may die because they cannot afford care home fees or of self-neglect when there is no one to look after them after the unwanted Eastern Europeans have gone home.
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They may die because violence erupts when some people don’t like the fact that we have or haven’t left the EU on terms that suit them.
They may die because violence erupts when people realise that they have been cheated and lied to and are even poorer than before.
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They may die at their own hands because the farm they have tended all their lives or the business they built from scratch has gone to the wall.
They may die at their own hands because their job disappeared when their employer abandoned the UK.
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They may die because we end up at war. With ourselves, with Russia or with terrorists.
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There are many, many ways that people may die thanks to Brexit, the angst it has caused and the billions that have been diverted from solving the problems of this country into creating enemies of our closest friends.
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It is inevitable that people will die because of that referendum.
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We have a government with no mandate leading us to catastrophe, urged on by a baying media. Who is leading this charge? Those with the least to lose. Look at the bank balances of the Johnsons, the Goves, the Rees-Moggs, the Murdochs, the Desmonds, the Dacres, the Barclays.
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They are conducting their own campaign of terrorism, their own Project Fear. They are trying to frighten MPs into submission, first by making them scared they’ll lose their seats and now by ramping up the no-deal rhetoric so that they’ll approve any half-cocked plan.
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Cameron, Farage, May, Johnson, Cummings, Corbyn, McCluskey, Milne. They’re all culpable. We didn’t need to do this to ourselves and these people could have stopped it.
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Not one of them has yet put forward a single benefit of leaving the EU beyond “the people voted for it”. It started out as “taking back control” and “sovereignty”. Now it’s “believe in Britain” in the face of food and fuel shortages.
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They undoubtedly all have a vision of the future they want for the UK - free-trade haven or socialist utopia.
But it’s a long-distant future. It won’t appear in my lifetime.
And before it does, people who should have lived will die.
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