Drug shortages in the UK have risen to their worst level for four years, official figures show, with Brexit considered a key reason so many medications are scarce.
Drug companies notified the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) about disruptions to supply 1,938 times during last year – the highest number since the 1,967 seen in 2021.
Medications to treat epilepsy and cystic fibrosis are among those that pharmacists are finding it hard or impossible to get hold of, creating risks for patients’ health.
The figures have emerged in a new report by the Nuffield Trust health thinktank, which obtained them under freedom of information laws from the DHSC, which oversees the availability of drugs UK-wide.
Wasn’t it a non-binding referendum? I still don’t get why they still ‘had to do it’ when it was clearly going to be a bad idea in fore and hindsight.
Because the people who organised it didn’t like the new financial laws being implemented by the EU. Billions of pounds worth of dodgy money is laundered through the UK every year. I can’t recall the exact details but the EU were implementing laws that made money transfer more transparent. So this would have meant that all this dirty money would be traceable, and Tories didn’t want this being exposed because it was their mates and families all in it up to their ears.
To give you a less conspiratorial answer than other, because those that stood against it were labelled as being against “the will of the people”. Basically even though it was non-binding, those that were pro-brexit clothed themselves as following democracy, and those who opposed them as anti-democratic.
There were several problems with the referendum:
It was called to try to quell a split within the conservative party. Not because of any real movement in the country.
It never specified what “leaving the EU” meant. When, how fast, what remaining relationship? So the debate was nebulous. Positives were extremely optimistic and negatives were dismissed as pessimistic (despite being true).
The non-binding nature meant that no margin of certainty was set. It should have needed a majority of the voting public, or > ⅔ to be taken as something we really wanted to do. It was too major a change to enact on 52-48.
We don’t govern by referenda in the UK. They go against the principle that parliament is sovereign because they place the people’s voice above parliament’s. We’re a representative democracy and not a direct one. The only other ones we’ve had are
Hence the rules that surround referenda are poorly specified.
It definitely shouldn’t have been decided with a 52% majority on a 72% turnout.
This is a good and thorough answer, and it is likely entirely correct.
I still think traitorous cunts made a ton of money off it though :)
Because some people stood to become personally very rich off the back of it, and were willing to damage a whole nation for their own benefit, because they’re traitorous cunts.
Taxes. The EU introduced rules of tax transparency. The UK left the EU the day before the rules kicked in.