The GMC, which registers doctors and licenses them to work, has been able to check EU medics’ English since last summer…
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As just one example, the Vote Leave website claimsīecause of free movement laws, the UK cannot test every EU doctor operating in the UK for whether they can speak EnglishĪs proof, they link to an article in the Guardian about a horrible accident thanks to a doctor not understanding English. I haven’t had time to post all the mini-fact-checks I’ve found. Just today I discovered that the European Commission’s role in legislation is actually far more balanced than I thought.Īnd the Leave campaign lie a lot more. The more I investigate the EU, the more I find out it’s fairer and better set up than the UK’s government. They lie about the state of democracy in the EU. I still have found absolutely no support whatsoever for the figures that are confidently quoted here. They lie about the business case for Leave. I’d love to say “they’re misinformed”, or “they exaggerate”, but they don’t. They lie about how much money we spend on the EU. Leave’s ReliabilityĪt every single turn, I found that the Leave campaign’s arguments were founded on lies. Unfortunately, “well, at the end of the day both sides have a good point” is not what I found. And if that happens I’d much rather be saying “well, at the end of the day both sides have a good point” than “oh god, oh god, we’re in real trouble now”. Why? Because the country might vote for Leave.
However, I really hoped to find that my initial impressions of Leave were wildly wrong, and I was hoping they had very strong arguments. I came into this leaning cautiously to Remain.
You care about who’s telling the truth, who isn’t, and who you should vote for. It has been surprisingly interesting, in some ways. ( Here are all the posts I wrote as a result.
I’ve treated myself to a fun Google search for the accounts of pro-Remain activists to check that they’re not biased. I’ve hacked through academic analyses of the EU when I really should have been promoting my Virtual Reality game. I’ve read 90-page government reports on my way to a wedding. Severing links could easily make it more expensive to import or ship goods.I’ve now spent the last three weeks fact-checking every detail on Brexit that I possibly could. We are a nation that depends on imports for energy and goods and in turn of being part of the EU we have a decent mechanism for trade. But the argument for leaving is not looking as scary as I first thought. Now, I am still not fully up for Britain leaving the European Union – there are still a huge amount of advantages of staying in. The Conservative government, the financial sector, and various business groups are heavily against the FTT. The Tory-led government hates the tax proposition so much that UK Chancellor George Osborne even had to go through the length of launching a legal suit against the FTT plan which was adopted by 11 EU states.īasically, even if Britain doesn't sign up for it, the UK would be still financially penalised if it does business with other countries that sign up for FTT. However, the European Commission is aiming to launch the FTT in January 2016 with slightly different tax calculations - 0.1% on shares and 0.01% on bond transactions where at least one of the parties was based in the EU. Take a look at how the EU really isn't as well-positioned as it was when Britain entered the bloc in 1973:Ī woman wears a red wig and Union Flag glasses at the Goldsmith Avenue Street Party to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Britain's Queen Elizabeth in Ealing, west London June 4, 2012. As demonstrated before, Germany is propping up manufacturing growth figures. The EU isn't doing as well as it used to and it's really down skewed economic reporting that suggests the eurozone is doing great. Countries that need to devalue their currency to spur exports can't. The bloc is not a "single" anything. Sure, we lend money and force them to gut their country from the inside out, but a loan is not a re-distribution of wealth. Just look at Greece and the sorry mess it is. Infrastructure, like new railway lines, could be installed to link cities and create greater connection for people working or looking to expand business. If somewhere like Nottingham was struggling, the money is redistributed to pay for welfare or prop up the local economy. In Britain, for example, London may generate greater amounts of wealth than certain regions in the country.