Decisions Have Consequences

[Hymie]

You vote for a policy (Brexit) that will result in a large number of critically needed staff working within the NHS, leaving the country – as a direct result of the lack of available hospital care, thousands die (at a rate of 1,500 a year).

 

Explain to me why (as a Brexit voter), the thousands of avoidable deaths have nothing to do with you.

[New Judge]

"Brexit want the problem the government was (and continues to be)."

You're absolutely correct, cassa.

There are aalmost 200 countries in the world. All except 27 of them maanage perfecly well without belonging to a supra-national organisation with ambitions to create a single federal nation.

But we're expected to believe that people in the UK are dying in their thousands and that the sole reason for their deaths was because we relinquished our membership of the EU.

Tora was correct - I was being polite. I've heard a lot of criticism of Brexit from people who cannot grasp why many of the electorate voted for it. That's their privilege as we live in a society where such differences can be aired. But of this latest diatribe I can only say that I have never heard such a load of tosh in my life.

[Hymie]

Despite the number of responses to this thread, I still don’t know why those who voted for Brexit think that the thousands of avoidable deaths (that are directly attributable to Brexit) have nothing to do with them?

 

......or is it that the reported 1,500 annual deaths, is like Trump says ‘fake news’?

 

 

For some reason, the link to the independent article has been removed from my original post:-

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-nhs-death-eu-nurse-b2742598.html

[naomi24]

Hymie.  It's nonsense.  
 

Mods can't edit posts. You just have forgotten to post your link.

[tommy39]

hymie,we are not accountable,yes we voted for brexit,but who negotiated the disastrous deal,and who signed it??? not the voting public,and it was not the deal the country expected/or wanted

[New Judge]

"I still don’t know why those who voted for Brexit think that the thousands of avoidable deaths (that are directly attributable to Brexit) have nothing to do with them?"

You don't know because you do not understand how democracy and government work in the UK. Whether that ignorance is genuine or you are feigning it to provoke an argument I simply don’t know.

If we assume that Dr Moscelli’s findings are sound (and I haven’t read his entire paper to form an opinion and nor do I intend to) the electorate is not to blame for Brexit. It was the government’s decision to ask the question via a referendum and to agree to implement the electorate’s decision. It was Parliament’s decision to invoke Article 50 (which they voted by 5 to 1 to do). The referendum was advisory only and the government could have ignored it. There was a multitude of opportunities for the government and Parliament to back out. But (thankfully) they didn't.

The electorate was not responsible for any of those activities and nor did it have any input to or control over them. Voters were simply asked  question. The decisions required to effect Brexit were taken by government and Parliament. Any consequences arising from them lie with the government of the day when those decisions were taken.