As an ultra Remainer, I always argued membership of the EU was about saving our Economy. I was wrong, our economy doesn’t need saving, it will always bounce back.
For ultra Leave Strategists, the prize for Brexit was always dismantling the NHS.
Jas Sansi explains how you end the NHS with the Will of the People?
Imagine sitting around a boardroom table discussing how to dismantle the NHS without damaging your credibility as a Political Party.
How would you plan to end an organisation that commands over £140 Billion per year as the fifth biggest employer in the world? All with the unwavering support of the electorate who rely on this service.
Reducing bed numbers, closing wards, removing some drugs from the approved list are all damaging but would not prove fatal for the NHS. They would however, be fatal for a Party looking to win a General Election.
If you want to sink a Titanic, you’re wasting your time kicking the bulkhead, you need an iceberg.
Before dismantling the NHS, first identify how to ensure the decision to dismantle the NHS is perceived to be the will of the people.
The next step in dismantling the NHS is to make it unaffordable for the country. No Political Party could campaign on such a ticket. Abolishing NHS funding requires a much bigger and longer game plan.
The way to destroy the NHS is to damage the economy it is dependent on. To engineer an economic shock that makes the NHS impossible to support.
How do you create an economic shock, one that does not destroy the economy but forces it to address public spending to the degree a National Health Service is no longer viable?
The NHS is free at the point of delivery, but it’s not free, it’s paid for by taxes we all pay. The way to sink the NHS is to compromise the size of tax revenue.
The conductor of this shock cannot be Government, it has to be the people who are responsible. The electorate have to deliver a democratic decision and implementation carried out by Government with a clear mandate.
The Government will continue to promise support of the NHS distancing themselves from the prize; ending the NHS.
How do you get the people to accept responsibility for the chain of events that result in such an action?
You can’t do it by offering a Referendum that asks ‘Shall we change the funding model of the NHS from tax receipts to an Insurance based one?’
You can trigger the chain of events by offering a Referendum that if implemented would mean we are forced to re-evaluate the core values of the UK, not least the defending of the NHS.
Brexit is the vehicle that delivers this change. Brexit means ending the NHS as we know it.
The Government’s own economic predictions signal the damage Brexit will inflict. And yet people continue to insist democratic decisions must be obeyed whatever the consequences.
Rebuilding the UK Economy after leaving the EU will focus on a trade deal with the USA, a trade deal where the £140 Billion NHS is on the table.
Every man, woman and child will need insurance to cover the cost of any contact with a health professional.
This is the real end game for Brexit. The campaign used toxic political weapons to engineer the electorate into complicity with the move from a public funded NHS to an insurance funded one.
This was always the prize.
Jas Sansi is a freelance photographer based in Birmingham @jassansi 07930 837 505
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