It's crazy for UK to go ahead with Brexit given pandemic crisis

From: John Cole, Oakroyd Terrace, Baildon, Shipley.
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Do you agree with this reader when it comes to the UK leaving the EU? Photo: PA/Yui Mok

IN 2017 I had operations for a hip and two knee replacements. This was “elective surgery” in that, between us, the NHS and I chose to do it. My conditions were not life-threatening,

If I had been suffering from acute appendicitis with the threat of peritonitis, the NHS would have given me “emergency surgery”. Not a matter of choice.

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The Covid-19 pandemic is the world’s most severe crisis since the Second World War. Dealing with this has to be the top priority. Brexit is an “elective” issue – we can choose to go ahead with it or we can choose, under changed circumstances, to give up on it.

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It is absolutely crazy for the UK to go ahead with Brexit in current circumstances.

To wish to proceed, you would need to be a swivel-eyed ideologue or a self-promoting narcissist.

Editor’s note: first and foremost - and rarely have I written down these words with more sincerity - I hope this finds you well.

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James Mitchinson

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