The Brexit smokescreen has given Theresa May a licence to get away with
political murder. Look beyond the Brexit headlines and take a look at the state
Britain is currently in. I voted to remain in the EU. We lost. We must confront the challenges of now.
There's a housing crisis so
severe it cost the government £3.5bn of a period of 5 years, just to provide
temporary accommodation for homeless families. The number of homeless families
living in B&B's had risen by 300% over
the last 5 years. They have nowhere to go. Some idiot decided 'affordable' is a
1 bedroom flat in Hackney for £450,000. These families barely have £4.50, they
go days without meals to make sure their children can eat. They can't put the
heating on, they pay nearly double what you pay for gas and electric because
they have a key meter fitted to the property, they don't have the latest
iPhone, or SKY (like I'm going to give Rupert Murdoch a single penny). So, if
anyone thinks there's affordable housing for the homeless, out of work or low
income families, I urge you to take off the Tory-tinted blinkers and realise
your fellow human beings are suffering because of the decisions made by a
privileged few. Never mind Brexit, we need houses, both social housing (we used
to call them council houses) and realistically affordable properties for
people, regardless of where they sit on the social ladder, and we need them
now.
It gets worse. The Tory benefit cap is one horrendously thought-out piece of
legislation. It should be pointed clearly, the Supreme
Court ruled the cap breached the UN
convention on the human rights of a child. Do the Tories care? Of course not.
Now most people with even the slightest inkling of a brain cell realise that
most of people's benefit money goes directly to a private landlord. The Chartered
Institute of Housing released a report suggesting 116,000 families will be
affected –including around 319,000 children – and face a deficit between their
income and outgoings which will leave many unable to pay the cost of keeping a
roof over their head. So 319,000
CHILDREN are being put at risk of homelessness because of Tory
government policy, and this is despite the Supreme Court telling them they
can't do this! Do you think many of these people will be talking about a hard
or soft Brexit right now?
While the cringeworthy Brexit bravado from Downing Street continues your
National Health Service is still in crisis. In fact, it’s getting worse.
Numerous NHS walk-in centres are going to be closed, here's an example of just two in
Bury and Prestwich. According to this
article the current combined operating costs of the two NHS walk-in centres
is said to be around £800,000 and figures released show that last year the Centre’s
received a total of 67,000 visits. That works out around £12 per patient, per visit. It is
estimated that a typical A&E visit costs around £150-200 per patient per visit. Closing these vital walk-in Centre’s
will heap even more pressure on to A&E's up and down the land, and at an
even higher cost to you.
Did you know they are now considering rationing one
in five new medicines? Dr Hilary Jones has warned that the
Government's efforts to save costs within the NHS could result in patient
deaths while they wait for treatments which could potentially be denied to
them. What this means, in short, is that patients, seeking specific drug treatments
for certain conditions, will have to wait to get their medication. I've only
seen this today, but the implications are obvious.
Do you think a patient being denied cancer treatment, or a child sleeping on
the floor of an A&E corridor really care about the single market and
freedom of movement right now?
Of course, Brexit is a hugely important matter. But the outcome is known.
Despite the handsome poll lead and the Tory media cheering on Boris Johnson
offending the rest of the civilised world, change is not impossible. The
implications of the decisions made by Theresa May could still be the undoing of
the Tory Party. A huge number of her MPs, including cabinet ministers such as
Amber Rudd were very pro-Remain. The issue of Britain's withdrawal from the EU
will cause massive divisions in an already divided party.
An organised, united and effective opposition must be ready to take it to
Theresa May. They can't let Brexit dominate the news agenda.
People are suffering, some dying. We have a duty to challenge the decisions
that are causing this misery.
The Tories want you to live and breathe Brexit so you forget about the NHS
crisis, the housing crisis, the prisons crisis, the rail crisis, the social
care crisis and all the other Theresa May-inspired disasters that are
destroying the lives of people we know and care about.
There's 120
billionaires in Britain, many that avoid paying tax, Brexit means
nothing to them, they’ll still be billionaires, they will all be ok. There's 124,000
homeless children in Britain and we have to fight for every one of
them, my 2 included. We can't let the Tories bury one crisis after another
under the blanket of Brexit.
I'm not comfortable with billionaires avoiding taxes while our country is in such a state, and nor should anyone else be, unless you happen to be one of those billionaires.
@Rachael_Swindon
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