Saw this on FB today:
"Serious question: ( Yes I know not everybody agrees
with this just putting it out there)"
Tell me what you want so badly that you believe gives you the right to risk people’s life saving medicines.
To risk food supplies, and price increases when we already have four million children in poverty and many more relying on food banks.
To break the Good Friday agreement and allow terrorists to take hold again in Northern Ireland. To force ordinary people there, who did not vote for Brexit, to live in fear and to add huge difficulties to their every day lives and businesses by installing a border.
To force huge stress and disruption on our friends and family who are mainland European citizens in the UK, (and who were not allowed a vote on Brexit), and UK citizens in mainland Europe. To cause some of them to have to leave their homes of many years, break up businesses, relationships, friendships. Break up families.
To force the people of Scotland, who did not vote for Brexit, to lose their opportunities, face shortages and poverty too. (And then tell them their voice doesn’t even matter!)
To force the people of Gibraltar, who voted 99% to stay, to literally put a hard border at the end of the road they go down ten times a day.
To force young people, who voted 73% to stay, and actually every age group under 50 in 2016, who all had a majority to stay, to lose huge opportunities for their future, freedoms and rights against their will.
To absolutely destroy the Welsh economy.
To destroy farming, manufacturing, small businesses and many, many jobs.
To deprive the NHS and social care systems not only of cash but of the doctors, nurses and care workers they desperately need.
To take away our right to live, work, study and retire, to have free healthcare, and travel freely, in 27 countries.
To kill off our children’s life chances and leave our old people without the care and medicine they need.
To waste billions of pounds of tax payer’s money on ‘preparation’, on ‘unelected bureaucracy’ of having to employ many more civil servants and expensive consultants in Whitehall. Of having to replace all the many shared agencies we have been part of for up to 50 years.
To remove our shared data and intelligence services and increasing our vulnerability to terrorism and other crime.
To remove our hugely successful, collaboration in science, medical developments, climate change solutions, with our nearest neighbours.
To allow a hard right Tory government to sell off our NHS to Trump’s America, to remove our hard won employment rights, our consumer rights, our safety standards, just to line the pockets of rich men with no moral integrity.
To damage our economy by perhaps as much as 20% of GDP, losing us tax money for our hospitals, schools and local services. To de-value the currency, causing all those services, as well as individuals, to have to pay more for anything they import.
To throw away completely free trade with a market of 500 million people, plus nearly a hundred other preferential deals with the rest of the world, and replace them with tariffs on all our exports and imports, and huge customs queues.
To allow the tax-exile run tabloids to attack our democratic systems, our judiciary, our institutions, with language reminiscent of 1930s Germany.
To allow the far right and Nazism to crawl out from under its stone and for hate crime, abuse and attacks to increase massively across all categories.
What do you actually want that’s worth all that, not only for you but for so many others who haven’t chosen it?
Brexit allows two things - not having to follow new EU law which clamps down on tax dodgers, and the de-regulation of Britain.That’s the removal of all our rights and standards.
That’s why some very rich and unprincipled people want it so much.
Why do you?"
Don't tell me - leave means leave and we're taking back control... 