Brexit

The closer we get to election day the more dramatic remoaners and left wing cry babies will make fantasy statements about Brexit and the more hysterical they get as falling off a cliff Brexit face has less meaning.



There are pharma companies in the UK and Switzerland (Non EU), drugs are being developed all the time with these companies, where they can make new drugs that will get them contracts there is a way.

Part of the reason I haven't been on here much lately is that I've been fighting aggressive prostate cancer. Mercifully I got the all clear a couple of weeks ago. It was a real eye-opener visiting Castle Hill every day for five weeks for radiotherapy. The NHS drugs scene is mightily complicated. Most of the drugs we use come from Europe or the U.S. and as someone said earlier they are copyrighted preventing their production anywhere else. This includes cancer drugs for chemotherapy. In the context of radiotherapy the radioactive material used is produced in Europe and has a half life of just 66 hours. Any distuption caused to the supply chain by a no deal Brexit will literally mean people being denied life saving treatment. We don't have the facilities to produce the required substance here and getting that expertise in will be difficult at least in the short term.

Latest voting intentions for Great Grimsby constituent (27/11):

Conservatives- 12148 (36.2%)
Labour- 12012 (35.8%)
Brexit- 5188 (15.5%)
Lib dems- 2371 (7.2%)
Greens- 1381 (4.1%)
Others- 439 (1.2%)

Turnout- 54%

Now I'm not trying to make a political point, but as a keen historian I find the turnout appalling. Given we needed the Great Reform of 1832, and women's suffrage 1918-1928, before the franchise was entended....whatever your politics, GET OUT THERE AND VOTE!

Quoted from barralad

Part of the reason I haven't been on here much lately is that I've been fighting aggressive prostate cancer. Mercifully I got the all clear a couple of weeks ago. It was a real eye-opener visiting Castle Hill every day for five weeks for radiotherapy. The NHS drugs scene is mightily complicated. Most of the drugs we use come from Europe or the U.S. and as someone said earlier they are copyrighted preventing their production anywhere else. This includes cancer drugs for chemotherapy. In the context of radiotherapy the radioactive material used is produced in Europe and has a half life of just 66 hours. Any distuption caused to the supply chain by a no deal Brexit will literally mean people being denied life saving treatment. We don't have the facilities to produce the required substance here and getting that expertise in will be difficult at least in the short term.

Sorry to hear what you have been through Ian, and it's great news that you have the all clear, cancer of any form is horrible and there is a lot of research into finding cures, what we need is one of these boffins to find a one cures all drug and in this age of enlightenment that shouldn't be to far off.

Great news Ian, Glad you’re ok and recovering mate. 👍

Good to hear you are doing ok now Ian hope to see you at a game soon.

I do not think we could declare ourselves bankrupt it was just a word I used to say Labour would spend more.money than we could pay back.

BUT

What the he'll let's spend spend spend give everybody free this and free that and let's have a 2 day week .

Who the fook would want to buy the nhs ? Surely it’s not an attractive proposition especially with our country’s growing , ageing and generally shi.te lifestyle and health ?

Quoted from louth_in_the_south

Who the fook would want to buy the nhs ? Surely it’s not an attractive proposition especially with our country’s growing , ageing and generally shi.te lifestyle and health ?

Like the railways which we pay companies over Six Billion Pounds in subsidies for outside companies to run there is plenty of money to be made from the NHS, every contract now has to go out to tender (privatisation by stealth) and many companies just want to get a foot in the door and will price accordingly. Virgin Care who have over £2  billion in health contracts sued the NHS for over £80million last year because they lost a contract.  These companies make massive profits which go to the big bosses in the Virgin Islands and other tax havens, American companies want some. of this, the drug companies who already make an obscene amount of money want more profit from the NHS. The Tories will count this money as extra spending on the NHS and would be technically correct to do so.
There is a reason for the massive lobby industry in health and very little of it is concerned with improved patient care.

There is a few on here who think we will leave the EU without a deal,

Well you might just be wrong and we do get a deal with the EU and the USA,

We will only buy what we want from the yanks and  paying a silly price for anything when we can get it cheaper elsewhere is just bonkers and you are bonkers if you think we would.