Wednesday Brexit

In order for any form of Brexit to happen, all UK laws that have reference to EU laws will have to be changed, this goes from fundamental issues like human rights down to the most trivial.

The Withdrawal Act allows the Government to change many of these without due process by Statutory Instruments (Sis), that Ministers can issue.

One such SI is that in the event of shortages of medicines, pharmacists will be able to change prescriptions from what a doctor has prescribed to what might be available.

This is actually against the law, and has possible lethal consequences if the pharmacist gets it wrong. Some conditions, like epilepsy are only controlled by careful monitoring of reactions to drugs, or combinations, and any change in one drug could trigger a possible fatal fit.

Therefore, The Good Law Project yesterday launched a Judicial Review on this SI, and others which will be against other UK laws and could have such lethal effects. As Brexit day is just 38 days away, this is urgent and is already causing patients, doctors and pharmacists grave concern. Though looking in the newspapers or TV news, you would think Brexit was all about trade and a competition to see which side blinks first.

Also, the Commons Select Committee released its lengthy report on the campaign of fake news and misinformation by Cambridge Analytica on behalf of the two Leave campaigns, and asks a really fundamental question as to how legitimate the referendum result actually was. And yet it was hardly covered in the press and by the BBC.

In fact negative news about Brexit are usually buried, even by the once paper of record, The Times. As I found out yesterday when the story that Honda was to pull out of the UK was on page 12.

And the disconnect between what is happening in the UK, an in particular within the Conservative Party and what is happening with the EU in regard to the backstop is startling. Listening to the BBC you would think that more negotiations are taking place, and yet the EU has said, for months now, that the WA is locked. Probably all a ploy to make the EU look unbending, and the brave Brexiteers plan was struck down unfairly, when it is just the plan from 18 months ago with a new title.