Medicine Shortages

[Hymie]

You call into your local pharmacy to collect your regular prescription medication – the pharmacist advises that they are having difficulty sourcing your medication due to Brexit.

 

The pharmacist notes that according to their records you voted for Brexit, and advises that in such circumstances the pharmacy has instituted a policy of prioritising medication to those who did not vote for this turd-show (Brexit) – so they advise you that they won’t be issuing you with your medication for the foreseeable future.

 

If you voted leave and experienced the above unavailability of your medication, would you accept this as a result of your own actions (in voting leave) – or would you complain that the referendum was a democratic vote and everyone should suffer equally?

 

I would certainly accept that if I had been conned by the likes of Farage, Johnson, Reece-Mogg, Gove etc (into voting leave) that I should suffer the consequences of my actions – and as a result, lack medication I needed.  However I would by now come to realise what a bunch of total idiots Farage, Johnson, Reece-Mogg, Gove etc are, and never listen to another word these cretins uttered.

 

As a leave voter, would you accept the consequences of your own actions – that your medication was not available to you?

 

https://www.dispensingdoctor.org/news/brexit-still-to-blame-for-medicines-shortages-new-report-finds/

[10ClarionSt]

I don't take any medicines or drugs but I go to the chemists regularly to collect a prescription for someone who didn't vote in the referendum. Every time I go, there is always a shortage of something. Last time it was Lamotrigine, next time it will be something else. What has voting for Brexit got to do with any of that?

[Hymie]

//Every time I go, there is always a shortage of something.

What has voting for Brexit got to do with any of that?//

 

As a result of Brexit, trade with our largest and nearest trading bloc was impacted (as we are now outside the free trade EU area), with many medications supplied from within the EU, this has resulted in ongoing medicine shortages in the UK.

[calmck]

I can go to my pharmacy here in Portugal and if a medicine is not available they will order it. If there is an issue with delivery time they will contact the doctor for an alternate. Our medicines are in boxes from the manufacturer and not dispensed with our name on the container. 

[New Judge]

At last! A sensible debate!

“….with many medications supplied from within the EU, this has resulted in ongoing medicine shortages in the UK.”

So have you asked yourself why his should be?

The UK has a so-called “Trade and Co-operation Agreement” with the EU. Among the copious reams of EU drivel it contains (most of which treats the UK as if it was still a member and subject to EU control)  under the title “Trade in Goods” there is this Article:

Article 20

Freedom of transit

Each Party shall accord freedom of transit through its territory, via the routes most convenient for international transit, for traffic in transit to or from the territory of the other Party or of any other third country.

There are various other passages which outline conditions (too long to mention here – you can find it easily enough) which are supposed to facilitate the free movement of goods, allegedly guaranteed by the Agreement.

So why is it, bearing in mind the terms of this agreement, that Brexit has caused the problems you describe?

[mushroom25]

I'll ask you again Hymie, since you ignored the question before - How far are you prepared to hold voters accountable for their actions, and where would you draw the line?

Summary execution for Reform voters, executive order signed by Hymie?

[Ryzen]

Sorry to hear you are having difficulty getting your meds Hymie.We all hope you get what you need soon...for the sanity of AB :-)

[ynnafymmi]

@08.50.Back to you Hymie.By the way you still havent addressed the issue that the the SNP were the majority(percentage-wise)Brexiteers up here in Scotland.