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    Brexit Without The Bullshit: The Facts on Food, Jobs, Schools, and the NHS

    By Gavin Esler

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    'Punchy, pithy and short.' – POLLY TOYNBEE, GUARDIAN COLUMNIST

    'In an ideal world every citizen would read this essential book, and think hard.' – PROFESSOR AC GRAYLING, ACADEMIC

    The broadcaster and journalist Gavin Esler reveals the long-lasting impact of the most momentous change in Britain for decades. In seven succinct chapters, he charts the profound changes brought about by leaving the European Union on key areas of life in the United Kingdom:

    Food and diet
    Health and the NHS
    Jobs and industry
    Education
    Travel to Europe

    From the food markets of Kent to NHS operating theatres to the boardrooms of big employers, Brexit is packed with surprises. And Brexit Without the Bullshit is not about the Brexit you were told you were getting: it's about the one we're actually getting.

    From the author of How Britain Ends and Britain is Better Than This, this is the ideal accompaniment to books on Brexit such as the Fintan O'Toole's Brexit Chronicles and Michel Barner's Secret Brexit Diaries.

    Instead of concentrating on the Brexit referendum campaign, it uncovers the fundamental changes caused by Brexit - and what they mean for ordinary life.

     

    REVIEWS

    'If you want a pithy, sober, clear-headed summary of what Brexit is actually likely to look like, @gavinesler’s new book is spot on. Such a welcome antidote to all the whipped up sentiment - calm, factual, rigorous.'

    – DR RACHEL CLARKE, NHS DOCTOR AND CAMPAIGNER

    'Esler provides the evidence of what Brexit has already done to Britain and the harm that it s causing and will cause, in particular to the poorest in our society. A guide for all who want to understand what Brexit really means.'

    – JESSICA SIMOR QC

    'A brilliant demolition of the lies and liars that created the Brexit mess. Should be required reading at his old stamping ground, the BBC.'

    – ALASTAIR CAMPBELL, WRITER AND BROADCASTER

    WHY I WROTE THIS BOOK - BY GAVIN ESLER

    In 2016 I did something I had never done before. I voted in the Brexit referendum without knowing what I was voting for or against. No one explained to me - or you - what Brexit would mean for our lives. Whether you voted Leave or Remain, we did not know the facts about Brexit, how it would affect our jobs, food, schools, universities, the NHS, our families, pets, travel arrangements, and even the supposed unity of the United Kingdom. In the years since the Brexit vote, the British government has continued to fail to explain the facts about Brexit, and so I decided to find out for myself. The result is my latest book, “Brexit Without The Bullshit.” 

    At first I thought that if Brexit were stripped of the bullshit — lies and deceit, scare stories and fantasies — there would be nothing left. But the facts about Brexit are so stark, there’s plenty to discuss and think about. The key fact is this:  Brexit is not an event. It is a process. Whether it happens or not, whatever version of leaving the EU we end up with, we will be forced to discuss Brexit for years to come. If we are to survive and perhaps thrive, we need to start with the facts. 

    Gavin Esler

    CONTENTS

    Introduction

    Chapter 1. Brexit & Our Food

    Chapter 2. Brexit, Our Health & the NHS

    Chapter 3

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCanbury
    Release dateJun 27, 2019
    ISBN9781912454365
    Author

    Gavin Esler

    Gavin Esler is an author and award-winning broadcaster with the BBC. He is currently a presenter on the BBC's flagship news and current affairs programme, Newsnight, and he is also familiar to audiences around the world on BBC World Television where he hosts Dateline London and numerous other programmes, including Hardtalk.

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      37% does not make a democracy. People who think 50%+1 is relevant in anything don't understand democracy in anything more than children’s terms. A crooked referendum, campaigned for with tons of lies and bullshit, for the benefit of a bunch of tax-dodging wankers. If that's democracy, screw that. Where's the 350 million quid a week the English were promised, eh? What happened to “they need us more'n we need them?” They were all lies to begin with, there's truth. And a referendum that was set up as advisory is an exceedingly stupid way to make a radical change to the very fabric of the nations. For democracy to function, one needs an informed and intelligent citizenry, not a bunch of propaganda-stuffed sheep. I'll bet you won't get many Brexiteers in the English car industry / fishing industry, etc., admitting that they actually voted for Brexit nowadays! Talk about turkeys voting for Xmas - well they got what they voted for -- same as the idiots who 'lent' their vote to the Con Men to 'Get Brexit Dun'! I was reading about people dying of COVID in the US who insisted that they weren't cos Trump had told them it was a hoax. I think that is a parallel for this. Because Brexit was sold with the meta-lie: don't believe anything that casts doubt on it, it is all Project Fear, it will be hard (as it is for most humans) for the Brexit supporters to admit they were profoundly wrong, that they were conned and lied to on industrial scale. And that sovereignty is nonsense compared with power and Brexit traded most of our economic and political power away for the sovereignty nonsense. And of course the above article does say much about the Finance and service sectors which are well and truly devastated because we did nothing to trade concessions on their behalf in return for concessions on traded goods in which the EU has a positive balance to lose. And of course the reason the negotiations went so badly is that the government are Brexit fundamentalists blind to UK interests. Because of Brexiters shortsighted stupidity the Brits have been lumbered with a totally incompetent government. Some UK people I know like to talk about Norway and Switzerland. Good grief!! The Switzerland model was not on offer! Regarding Norway, Mr. Schäuble, the then finance minister in Germany argued before the ref, that it wouldn't make sense for the UK to leave the EU but remain bound by its rules (eh eh). I guess he had a clearer view on the political realities in the UK than I gave him credit for at the time. The Deal the UK got, is the best, there is to have under the red lines of the Brexiteers and the frame work of Single Market. All of this has been predicted of course by those, who had a little knowledge of the treaties and workings of the EU, by trade groups or some specialists, dealing with the single market. The next time, please read the fine print, before you set fire to the building. Freedom of movement was what they wanted the end of. Norway not only has free movement but it is in Schengen as well. Let`s not re-write history. Vote leave was 100% clear about wanting to "control borders". Norway is the opposite. There was never any cake.The damage to the UK is because the UK left the Single Market. The UK, more than any other EU country, drove the creation of the Single Market. Stupid, ah? ROFL!