by Daz » Jun 24, '16, 8:23 am
The sad thing is Tim, the whole referendum was built around 3 things and all three of them are completely transparent. Immigration, the NHS and Cameron trying to unite the Tory party. The arguments raised for immigration were bullshit. We have more non-EU immigrants than immigrants from the EU, so this take back our borders bollocks was never even an issue. We had control of our borders. We had the right to turn large chunks of people away and introduce a system to counter act rising immigration, whilst still maintaining he free movement of labour with EU countries.
The NHS was underfunded by the Tory government's own budget. A budget that was massively depleted by their own overspending and mismanagement. They've spent years blaming it on the previous Labour government, they've blamed the previous recession on Labour, despite the fact the real cause was the crash in America which had a knock on effect globally, and they've blamed the EU. They've claimed the money we'll save now we're out of the EU will go into the National Health Service and if anyone believes that I've got a bridge in Sweden to sell you. They've actively been trying to privatise the NHS for years, and the key figureheads of the Leave campaign have spoken about this at length. Now you think they'll try and save it? Also the myth that there will be money to put into the NHS at all is complete fabrication. That money will still be spent on trade with either new partners or under a new agreement with the EU, and now our position is significantly weakened, and could get even weaker should Scotland and Ireland seek their own independance, meaning will likely wind up paying more than we do now, whilst getting none of the rebates the EU currently provides.
And as far as Tory unity, the gullible British public has failed to realize this referendum was a political bluff on Cameron's part to keep his party from facturing and many MP's jumping ship to ultra right wing UKip. Well played to Boris Johnson I guess for reading the tea leaves, flip flopping to the other side and changing his mind on the EU to position himself as the next Prime Minister. Cameron's resignation and the conference with Johnson was absolutely sickening, completely transparent, and absolutely what this whole referendum debate was about. Seeing Farage basking in the afterglow, proclaiming this as our Independence Day was absolutely vile and unfortunately we're all gonna suffer in the long run.
The whole thing was built on lies, now we're gonna have to rebuild our economy on fucking quicksand. The pound will likely recover somewhat in the coming weeks, and perhaps even return to the status quo, but whenever Article 50 is inacted in the next couple of years, we're gonna be looking at economic disaster.
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