Britain is ‘sick man of Europe’ finds new report into nation's health

“The term the ‘sick man of Europe’ is often used to describe countries going through severe economic turmoil or social unrest. In Britain today, it has become a more literal reality,” the authors wrote.

We lag our peers on:

• Health outcomes
• Number of people with a long-term condition is rising
• People are spending longer in poor health
• Health is worsening throughout the life course

All bringing real challenges for children, adolescents, working-age adults, and those who have retired.

That is, the nation’s health challenges have reached historic proportions.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24589592.britain-sick-man-europe-finds-new-report-nations-health/

#NHS #SaveOurNHS #CutsKill #LabourLies #ToryLies #PrivatisationFails #Healthcare

Britain is ‘sick man of Europe’ finds new report into health of the UK

BRITAIN is the “sick man of Europe” when it comes to health, according to a new report which highlights serious concerns about a rise in the…

#Brexit: UK exports declining and expected to get worse

The negative impacts of the trade agreement have intensified over time, with 2023 showing more pronounced trade declines than previous years

Clothing makers, wood and paper manufacturers, and farmers are among the hardest hit industries according to the report with many subcategories' values falling by well over half.

Edible fruit and nuts reported the biggest decrease in export value as it plummeted by 73.5%.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24589593.brexit-uk-exports-declining-expected-get-worse/

#ToryLies #BrexitLies #Rejoin #Indy2 #BrexitBenefits

UK exports declining due to Brexit and expected to get worse, warn economists

GOODS trade between the UK and EU has declined and is predicted to only get worse due to Brexit red tape on British businesses, a study has warned…

Garden centres in UK stockpile plants before new #Brexit checks

Yet another #BrexitBenefit

The government will introduce physical checks for many plant and animal products coming into Britain from the EU on 30 April as part of its new border target operating model (Btom).

However, plant sellers and growers have consistently raised concerns that the checks could cause delays and lead to some plants being destroyed or damaged.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/17/garden-centres-in-uk-stockpile-plants-before-new-brexit-checks

#ToryLies #BrexitLies #Gardening #RejoinEU #UK #ToryCorruption

New #Brexit checks will cause food shortages in UK, importers warn

In the week after the government was accused of blindsiding the British food industry by giving 27 days’ notice that every consignment of items such as camembert, steak, tulips and chives would be subject to fees of up to £145, small retailers such as delis and farm shops have been scrambling to make sure they still have products to sell.

But they say some EU exporters have already decided that they have had enough of British red tape and are either pausing supply operations or have given up completely.

Food wholesalers and trade associations have told the Observer of suppliers in EU countries who are already looking at other markets instead of the UK.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/apr/13/new-brexit-checks-will-cause-food-shortages-in-uk-importers-warn

#ToryLies #LabourLies #BrexitBenefits #BrexitFail #food #inflation

Alarm sounded over 'prison-like' conditions in UK #immigration centres

A new report has urged UK authorities to make a raft of improvements inside immigrant detention centres, including detention conditions and staffing issues.

That's according to a new report by the European Committee for the Prevention of #Torture (CPT) released on Thursday.

During a visit to the country between March and April 2023, it flagged up several issues surrounding the uncertainty of how long migrants will be detained, "prison-like" conditions in centres and the treatment of those displaying symptoms of mental illness.

The UK government blasted the report, saying it did not "recognise much" of its content.

https://www.euronews.com/2024/02/08/alarm-sounded-over-prison-like-conditions-in-uk-immigration-centres

#ToryLies #ToryScum #ToryDictatorship #NastyParty #HumanRights #DystopianBritain #Britain #UK

Alarm sounded over 'prison-like' UK immigration centres

A new report has urged UK authorities to make a raft of improvements inside immigrant detention centres, including detention conditions and staffing issues.

UK granted asylum to Rwandan refugees while arguing country was safe

Four #Rwandans were granted refugee status in the UK over “well-founded” fears of persecution at the same time as the government was arguing in court and parliament that the east African country was a safe place to send asylum seekers.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/27/revealed-uk-granted-asylum-to-rwandan-refugees-while-arguing-country-was-safe

#ToryLies #hypocrites #UK #asylum #fascism #racism #ToryFascism #ToryScum #AsylumSeekers #HumanRights #InternationalLaw

NHS medicines shortage putting lives at risk, pharmacists warn

Brexit benefits

An unprecedented medicines shortage in the NHS is endangering lives, pharmacists have said, as unpublished figures reveal that the number of products in short supply has doubled in two years.

Causes of the crisis are thought to include the plummeting purchasing value of the pound since the Brexit referendum

Breast Cancer Now, said her organisation had been contacted over the past 12 months by several patients unable to source the medicines they needed to control the spread of their disease.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/jan/14/nhs-medicines-shortage-putting-lives-at-risk-pharmacists-warn

#ToryLies #ToryScum #Brexit #BrexitBenefits #RejoinEU #NHS #SaveOurNHS #pharmacists #medication #ToryCorruption #Privatisation #PrivatisationFail #PeopleNotProfits

Britons support rejoining the single market, even if it means free movement

New YouGov data indicates that more Britons are in fact supportive of joining the single market, even under this condition, than in opposition. Just short of six in ten Britons (57%) would support the UK joining the single market, even if this meant a return to free movement, with only around one in five (22%) opposed.

https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/47997-britons-support-rejoining-the-single-market-even-if-it-means-free-movement

#BrexitFail #BrexitLies #EU #Rejoin #BrexitLies #ToryLies

Britons support rejoining the single market, even if it means free movement | YouGov

Seven in ten Britons support a closer relationship with the EU than we have now

Low-welfare eggs from caged hens imported to UK in ‘staggering’ numbers

Brexit Failed

The president of the National Farmers’ Union, said she was “staggered” by the import figures for the first eight months of 2023.

The total number of consignments imported since 2021:

• 422 in 2021
• 2,120 in 2022
• 2,536 in the just first eight months of 2023

“When the medical advice is to eat British Lion eggs [stamped to show they have been produced in accordance with a code of practice], why on earth would they be importing eggs produced to standards that would be illegal in the UK?” she asked.

• “It raises serious questions as to whether the government is checking food imports given the ongoing delays in the border target operating model.”

Gary Ford, the deputy chief executive of the British Egg Industry Council, echoed her concerns, saying it was “very disappointing” to see imports growing, “particularly at a time when British producers have been struggling due to poor returns”.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/oct/24/low-welfare-eggs-from-caged-hens-imported-to-uk-in-staggering-numbers

#ToryCronies #ToryCorruption #ToryLies #Brexit #eggs #FoodSafety #DystopianBritain #ToryDictatorship #BrexitFails #BrexitIsNotWorking #corruption #UK #UnitedKingdom #Rejoin #RejoinNow #EU #UK

Barclays cut my expat mother off from vital care home funds

Another Brexit Failure ...

#Barclays has form when it comes to cutting elderly widows off from their money. The reasons for the closures differ, but the underlying incompetence and insouciance are disturbingly similar.

Your mother fell victim to EU rules which, post-Brexit, require UK banks to apply for separate licences to serve customers in each EU country.

To save themselves the hassle and cost, many banks simply closed expats’ accounts. Barclays shut the last of its in December.

There is a set process for claiming the balance from a defunct account, but a succession of errors stymied your efforts. First you were told that the account was dormant, rather than closed. This meant you were directed to follow the wrong process, which got you nowhere.

Next, branch staff failed to acknowledge your LPA documents, which meant your mother was put through the stress of signing a letter of authority.

Barclays only admitted these blunders after I got in touch and it took a media prod to get it to release the funds

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/jul/19/barclays-cut-my-expat-mother-off-from-vital-care-home-funds

#Brexit #BrexitFailure #BrexitIsNotWorking #CorporateTerrorism #banks #banking #BrexitLies #bullying #EconomicTerrorism #ToryLies #PeopleNotProfits #CapitalismFail #ToryScum #RejoinEU #ToriesOut

UK fails to ban 36 harmful pesticides outlawed for use in EU

Campaigners say Britain becoming ‘toxic poster child of Europe’ and accuse ministers of breaking Brexit promise on standards

Though ministers promised the UK would not water down EU-derived environmental standards after Brexit, there have been multiple instances of divergence since the country left the bloc.

Now, the country is failing to phase out pesticides that have been found to be harmful to human health and the environment at the same rate as the EU, according to research from Pesticide Action Network (PAN).

Thirteen of the 36 chemicals are considered highly hazardous pesticides under UN definitions used to identify the most harmful substances.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/13/uk-fails-ban-pesticides-outlawed-use-in-eu

#ToryLies #BrexitLies #BrexitHasFailed #ToryDictatorship #unaccountable #ToryFascists #pesticides #chemicals #human #health #toxic #PeopleNotProfits #poison

'Austerity is a False Economy that has Brought the Nation's Roof Crumbling Down'

The collapsing school buildings scandal has exposed how the Government failed to ‘fix the roof while the sun was shining’

The scandal is just the most obvious example of the reckless and self-defeating approach taken by this Government to the public sector.

Since 2010, it has cut infrastructure spending as a share of GDP by a third as a part of Osborne’s supposed plan to “fix the roof” of the nation’s public finances.

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/09/05/austerity-is-a-false-economy-that-has-brought-the-nations-roof-crumbling-down/

#BylineTimes #austerity #ToryLies #ToryIncompetence #UK #Tories #Dystopia #Dystopic #Britain #schools #buildings #ToryCorruption #corruption #concrete #Raac #corruption

'Austerity is a False Economy that has Brought the Nation's Roof Crumbling Down' – Byline Times

The collapsing school buildings scandal has exposed how the Government failed to 'fix the roof while the sun was shining'

Tory pledge to end homelessness by 2024 was just another hollow promise...
If you eradicate affordable homes and decimate social housing, refuse to regulate
landlords then you just drive up the number of rough sleepers caught in the poverty
trap...
#Photo
#Photography
#Photographer
#gif
#MyWork
#WarOnThePoor
#SocialCleansing
#ToryLies
#RoughSleeping
#Homelessness
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/19/homelessness-charities-tell-pm-they-fear-rough-sleeping-target-will-be-missed

Guy Hands: ‘I thought Brexit was frankly nuts’

“What Brexit was largely about was people at the top being able to employ the rest of the country for a lot less and pay a lot less tax,” he says.

Hands should know. He is one of those people at the top, a former Tory donor who is the founder and chair of Terra Firma, a private equity firm he founded. It has made him a multi-millionaire and one of the best-known figures in the British financial system.

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/guy-hands-i-thought-brexit-was-frankly-nuts/

#Brexit #BrexitLies #BrexitFailed #capitalism #wealthy #ToryFascistDictatorship #UnitedKingdom #UK #ToryLies #MarxWasRight

Guy Hands: ‘I thought Brexit was frankly nuts’

The financier and former Tory donor says leaving the EU was a plan by the rich to make themselves richer and the poor poorer

Petrol bombs and punishment beatings: paramilitaries still rooted in Northern Ireland

A quarter of a century after the end of the Troubles, paramilitaries continue to recruit, march, intimidate and, on occasion, kill

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/09/petrol-bombs-and-punishment-beatings-paramilitaries-still-rooted-in-northern-ireland

#NorthernIreland #Ireland #NI #Brexit #BrexitFailed #BrexitLies #BrexitIsNotWorking #ToryLies

Our NHS and Tory Lies

Reality: Tories want to make huge profits from human illness and injury. Causing ...

• Poverty
• Sucking cash from ill individuals to fill Tory corporate pockets
• Reducing UK life expectancy -- Reducing the 'expense' of payout our pensions
• Increase human suffering

#NHS #SaveOurNHS #ToryFascistDictatorship #CapitalismFails #DemocracyNotAutocracy #Healthcare #ToryLies #ToryCronyism #ToryCorruption #CorporateTerrorism #ElectiveDictatorship #UK #UnitedKingdom

Rishi Sunak lying to public over emergency NHS funding

Hospitals and councils have not received £300m promised four months ago to free up beds

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jan/05/rishi-sunak-accused-misleading-public-emergency-nhs-funding

#ToryCorruption #corruption #NHS #ToryLiesCostLives #SaveOurNHS #ToryFascistDictatorship #ToryLies #GeneralStrike

It's more nuanced than three word mantra...
Those who still believe it was a good idea would do well to watch this video...
#brexit
#selfHarm
#bollockstoBrexit
#ToryLies
#Photo
#Photography
#Photographer
#gif
#MyWork

https://tube.nogafa.org/w/gWkjZ2gMUjB4yP6Hapih9f

The Brexit effect： how leaving the EU hit the UK ｜ FT Film

"The mini-budget was really the culmination of the economic policies that have been put in place since the Brexit vote." "There is a political conspiracy of silence around the effects of Brexit." Not my words, but the words of experts in this new...

More Barefaced, Tory LIes

https://twitter.com/Femi_Sorry/status/1475237269917380615?s=20

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re-IMAGINE-uk – #takebackBritain

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