1/ And the hostile environment applies to most activities that are concerned with the govt serving their citizens/potential citizens. Look at UC and PiP. What people experience at times of deep anguish and stress to gain support at difficult times in their lives is scandalous.
2/ Again government policy seems to have been driven by the half-baked and inaccurate reports from the gutter press, driving people to despair and sometimes suicide. It is an utter disgrace that in one of the most prosperous nations in the world children who have working parents
3/ go hungry. It is a disgrace that donation crates for food and other essentials are now a common fixture in supermarkets nationwide. It is a disgrace that people are offered working contracts that do not afford them even the most basic of benefits such as time off to visit
4/ their GP. It is a disgrace that the NHS is mortally wounded by understaffing yet foreign medical professionals do not want to work here. It is a disgrace that so-called intelligent people are selling the lie that separation from EU and the rest of the world is a solution.
5/ We have to start looking beyond Brexit which In many ways is a distraction. The social systems that were put in place after WW2 to ensure that nobody, not one citizen, ever had to suffer privation, is broken beyond repair. The wrap around system designed to ensure that we
6/ are all cared for from cradle to grave has been murdered and replaced by one that punishes the most vulnerable and needy. Instead of exercising their duty of care towards these citizens, the govt has wasted and will continue to waste billions of £ of our money (as this money
7/ is raised through direct and indirect taxation) on an ideology, nay a STANCE which will make us even poorer and confirm us as a laughing stock of the world
8/There are very clear examples in 20C history that Isolationism ( because that is the true meaning of Brexit) does not work. Both the USA and Mao's China suffered devasting human disasters due to this narrowminded fear-driven ideology.
9/ In conclusion, Brexit is smoke and mirrors that has led us to take our eye off the ball. We need to stop it from happening, but we also need to focus on what is happening in the UK TODAY. We need to blow away the smoke, break the mirrors then start thinking about how we create
10/ a fair, just and caring society for all. I would argue that in order to do so we first need to admit that the adversarial FPTP political system is broken beyond repair and that we now need to turn to PR so that every person eligible to vote is given a voice. END
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