Ten more questions for Brexiteers to answer

Jonathon Read

Published: 8:27 AM May 2, 2018 Updated: 6:05 PM September 17, 2020

Campaigners against the EU in Ipswich. Photograph: Vivien Collins - Credit: Archant

With Theresa May's Brexit deadline just 331 days away, it is becoming even clearer Britain is not ready to leave the EU.

However, some Leavers still think otherwise, so here is a list of ten questions to ask them.

The list has been compiled by Twitter user @RJonesUX.

26% of NHS doctors are migrants. It takes 7 years to train a doctor.

We've already lost 10,000 doctors since the referendum. We plan to expel even skilled immigrants after 5 years. So where are the courses to urgently train 23,000 replacement doctors?
— Russ (@RJonesUX) May 2, 2018

Questions focus on the NHS and care workers, border staff, the civil service, the construction industry, the financial sector, and farming sector.

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11% of othe NHS staff (nurses, midwives, therapists, lab technicians etc) are migrants.

Where are the training bursaries to attract the 50,000 replacements we need? The new colleges? The new teachers?
— Russ (@RJonesUX) May 2, 2018

UK has a 19,000 mile coastline, and over 40 commercial airports.

To keep out migrants – a key promise of Brexit – we need thousands of border security staff. We are training none. Why not?
— Russ (@RJonesUX) May 2, 2018

The Dept of Transport anticipates 150 miles of daily tailbacks in Kent after Brexit, as lorries queue to get through slower passport controls.

Where are the road widening schemes? The lay-bys? The traffic management investment?
— Russ (@RJonesUX) May 2, 2018

The UK currently has 92,000 care home staff vacancies, and 150,000 existing carers are immigrants.

Where is the funding to train 240,000 new care home workers?
— Russ (@RJonesUX) May 2, 2018

The Civil Service Managers Union estimates we'll need 28,000 additional civil servants to replace EU provision.

Where are the job adverts? The buildings? The training?
— Russ (@RJonesUX) May 2, 2018

200,000 migrants work in UK construction. We're in the middle of a housing crisis.

Where is the funding to train British replacements? Where will Leavers' kids live if there's nobody around to build homes?
— Russ (@RJonesUX) May 2, 2018

The National Farmers Union has warned that a lack of migrants will affect food security. There are already reports of crops rotting in fields because nobody is available to pick them.

Where are the plans to train the 80,000 seasonal workers farming needs?
— Russ (@RJonesUX) May 2, 2018

Finally, 320,000 immigrants work in financial services. Where is the training to replace their skills in the next 12 months, especially as 11% of tax revenue relies on that industry?

Without them we have to make cuts bigger than the ENTIRE education budget.
— Russ (@RJonesUX) May 2, 2018

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