Petition updateSave the UK by forgetting BREXIT and Rejoining the EUWhere Brexit Hurts: The Nurses and Doctors Leaving London

Dr. Michael HopkinsLondon, ENG, United Kingdom
Nov 22, 2017
Do you feel sad and let down by BREXIT? I do.
A headline like the one above appeared in the New York Times a few days ago (reference below). The story makes depressing reading and starts 'Tanja Pardela is leaving London. Her last day is Nov. 26. She wells up talking about it. She will miss jacket potatoes, and Sunday roasts, and her morning commute — past playing fields, small children in school uniforms and a red telephone box — to the hospital where she has been a pediatric nurse for 11 years.'
'Ms. Pardela does not want to leave the country she came to over a decade ago. But that country no longer exists. On June 24 last year, she said, “We all woke up in a different country.” '
'Seventeen months after Britain voted to leave the European Union, many Europeans are voting to leave Britain — with their feet. Some 122,000 of them packed their bags in the year through March, according to the latest figures available, while the stream of new arrivals has slowed.'
The depressing story continues, reflecting some of the criticisms revealed in the posts of this petition: 'During the Brexit campaign, an argument about the N.H.S. helped tip a tight vote. Brexit advocates said leaving the European Union would allow the government to repatriate 350 million pounds a week from Brussels — about $463 million at current exchange rates — and spend it on health care. It was a powerful promise, plastered in bold across the side of a campaign bus — but it was false: Britain pays only about £166 million a week net into the European budget and there was little chance that even a lesser amount would go solely to the N.H.S.'
I end with a last story and a conclusion from the same article: 'Dr. Auzinger has been in London for 18 years. He, too, would consider going back to Austria if he could transplant his job there, but he cannot. He thinks the way Brexit is affecting the N.H.S. is symptomatic of a poor treatment plan. Britain is ailing. People are angry. Brexit was the treatment offered to them. What worries Dr. Auzinger is the lack of a diagnosis. “If you think Brexit is the medicine, my concern is that you’re treating something blindly,” he said. “If you don’t have a diagnosis, you cannot treat the patient properly.” '
This petition is starting to take off as many concerned citizens, such as you dear reader, sign in the hope it can influence our many blind and deaf UK politicians. As you know, a small step can start an avalanche which, in our case, will provide the warning that the UK must not leave the EU and thereby save the UK from disaster.
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