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Brexit Unspun, Overcoming the Web of Deceit.
09/09/2019 @ 19:30 - 21:30 BST
Free – £4Gavin Esler, Rachel Clarke, Andrew Adonis : Brexit Unspun, Overcoming the Web of Deceit.
Gavin Esler, Rachel Clarke, Andrew Adonis : Brexit Unspun, Overcoming the Web of Deceit.
Boris Johnson’s government and its threatened no-deal Brexit are an immediate threat to our security, our livelihoods and our children’s future.
To put a stop to this malignant project, people must be able to see through the lies which have enabled and driven the Brexit agenda, from the 2016 referendum down to today. The time to act is very short, the stakes are as high as they could be. Three renowned supporters of the People’s Vote campaign join Oxford for Europe for this major public event to discuss the Brexit lies and how we can share the truth about them before it’s too late.
Veteran BBC reporter Gavin Esler‘s Brexit Without The Bullshit: The Facts on Food, Jobs, Travel and the NHS [Canbury Press] was published on 27 June. Gavin will be signing copies of the book before and after this event.
Mixing personal anecdotes, reportage and expert reports, Brexit Without The Bullshit calculates the impact of a no deal and reveals “the damage that leaving the European Union has done, and will do, to schools, hospitals, businesses and other important areas of British life”.
Gavin comments: “This book was inspired by the misinformation, disinformation and blatant lies of those who have brought us Brexit. They clearly have no idea what they are doing and are putting at risk what is left of the unity of the United Kingdom. The Brexit fiasco has created an image of our great country which looks incompetent and divided to the rest of the world and a political system which is no longer fit for purpose.
“My aim has been to offer the facts about what Brexit will mean for our daily lives – from the food we eat to how we will source our medicines, where our health care workers will come from to what travel in Europe will look like. My only regret is these facts were not discussed when we voted in the 2016 referendum. I hope Brexit Without The Bullshit will help us think again.”
Dr Rachel Clarke is an English physician specialising in palliative care for the National Health Service, author, journalist and activist. She works at the Sobell House is Oxford.
Formerly a current affairs journalist, Rachel retrained to work as a doctor in 2009. From 2015 she had an active voice in the dispute in the United Kingdom between junior doctors and the government over their contractual conditions of work, appearing in multiple television debates and interviews. Her book Your Life In My Hands – a Junior Doctor’s Story was published in 2017.
Via twitter, rallies and media interventions she has been a tireless and incisive critic of the ravages of austerity and privatisation in the NHS, and of the mounting damage and grave future threat of Brexit to local heathcare services. She has also been a public supporter of the People’s Vote campaign.
Dr Clarke comments: “The principle of informed consent underpins everything we do as doctors, respecting patients and putting them first. I would never treat a patient by keeping them in the dark, and imposing my wishes upon them. And I expect our elected representatives to show us, the electorate, the same basic respect, allowing our informed decisions to guide them.”
Rachel Clarke’s next book, Dear Life: A Doctor’s Story of Love and Loss is published by Little, Brown in January. She writes:
“If there is a difference between people who know they are dying and the rest of us, it is simply this: that the terminally ill know their time is running out, while we live as though we have all the time in the world. In a hospice, therefore, there is more of what matters in life – more love, more strength, more kindness, more smiles, more dignity, more joy, more tenderness, more grace, more compassion – than you could ever imagine.
Dear Life is a love letter – to a father, a profession, to life itself.”
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Lord Andrew Adonis is a politician, academic and journalist, a Labour peer and a former Minister for Education and Secretary of State for Transport. He is a vice-chair of the European Movement. He was a Fellow in History and Politics at Nuffield College and from 1987 until 1991 an Oxford City Councillor for the Social Democratic Party and later the Liberal Democrats, representing the North Ward. He resigned from leadership of the National Infrastructure Commission in December 2017 because of the Government’s approach to Brexit, and has since then been campaigning against Brexit in Parliament, the media, many public events, and an ongoing speaking tour across the UK, including many Leave voting areas. He is co-author with Will Hutton of Saving Britain: How We Must Change to Prosper in Europe (Little, Brown, 2018).
His campaign website is at https://www.andrewadonis.org/ . Andrew has spoken several times about Brexit at events in Oxford, including Oxford for Europe’s regional rally in Broad Street (March, 2018).
In his latest comment he writes:
“Now Dominic Cummings is joint prime minister, we have to take him seriously as more than a Vote Leave operative. I have therefore been reading all those interminable blogs on Bismarck, eugenics and American fighter pilots. I thought they’d be weird. Actually they are dangerous.
The weird bits are the obsession with physical combat and IQ. This explains his wild pugilism. And why Michael Gove, the first of Cummings’s minister-pupils, did so much to wreck England’s schools by decreeing that fewer and fewer teenagers should pass more and more exams.
It seems Cummings now plans to “Darwin-ise” the nation, not just the education system. Enter Otto von Bismarck, founding chancellor of the Second Reich. It is hard to conceive a more dangerous inspiration.”
The meeting will be chaired by Jocasta Gardner, Oxford for Europe.
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