Thread by @PublicPriestley

Before Brexit it was all #ProjectFear wasn't it? Post Brexit we are looking at some of the worst consequences that any government has inflicted on a nation without cause or provocation. 1/

Shortages of anti-biotics. As we stare at a strep A crisis and scarlet fever the Prime Minister is telling us there is no pressure on the supply of anti-biotics. Pharmacies tell us otherwise. 2/

Power shortages. While the government tells us that there won't be power outages this winter we know that they are planning scenarios for exactly that. 3/

Increases in bills across food, fuel and anything that is imported from the EU. People that never thought they'd suffer from fuel poverty are having to sit in cold houses. 4/

Labour shortages: from hospitals and agriculture - and inability to fill important roles and the consequences are on us. 5/

Increased levels of hate crime and racial intolerance: Brexit was never about racism they said. Funny how much more racist the country has become since it was emboldened by Brexit ignorance though? 6/

Damage to small businesses through a lack of access to the single market. Simple as that. New trade deals? New trade partnerships? Rubbish. Nothing has materialised. 7/

Let's not forget the instability that has been caused in Ireland and undermining the Good Friday Agreement. I mean - well worth jeopardising peace in a region that was ruined by bombs and bullets? 8/

In the meanwhile of course all the Brexit benefits to the fishing industry, to agriculture, the dividend to the NHS - all yet to materialise. Surprisingly empty promises from the likes of David Davis, Jacob Rees Mogg, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove. 9/

And yet the politicians have to pretend that Brexit was worth it. And that we have to persist with it - because of an advisory referendum that was twisted to a 2% margin through foreign money and undeclared interests. 10/

I'm going to dedicate this tweet to the Brexit benefits that we've all experienced so far:

[insert anything if you can, just above this line] 11/

Grasping for any success at all, Boris Johnson tried to suggest that the vaccine roll out was somehow more possible because of Brexit. I'm sure die-hard Brexiters believe him - but then they tend to overlap with climate change deniers, racists & anti-vaxers anyway (irony) 12/

So I'm sat in a country that has fuel and food poverty, inflation, industrial action, an unstable unelected government (I thought we were 'taking back control from the unelected'?), supply shortages, child and family poverty and a growing problem with racism. 13/

It might be time to get the Tories out of government, put them in the bin, and never allow them to run this country again. It is hard to conceive of how they could possibly have made more of a chaotic mess of the last 12 years. 14/

Retweet if you've had enough and you demand:
1) A general election
2) Electoral reform & an end to FPTP
3) Fair pay deals for public sector workers
4) Most support for children and families in poverty
5) A return to the EU
6) An elected head of state and second chamber #GTTO