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Dear Mark Heywood. Like any legal or other problem you have to see the whole battlefield. UK of GB and NI are borrowed to 86% of Gross Domestic Product. If Jeremy and his pals get in we will end up borrowed to 186% of GDP ( Because GDP will plummet as borrowing soars and people with money escape as in 1964-1970 ). The "evil" Tories like Cameron and Clegg's "evil" Liberals and Tories will have to clear up the resulting mess with even more austerity, if recovery is even possible. It isn't that the Gov't don't care (some of them do - Universal Credit as an idea is a genuine attempt to help people), it's that we are screwed financially. If people are unfortunate enough to be arrested then they will have to find and pay a lawyer. In other words, its a return to the dark ages. We either get our act together economically or we decline. That is why the ruling classes, (viz Sir Humphrey) are so terrified of Brexit, because they are not up to the job of governing, don't believe in their fellow citizens, and don't believe that we can fight our way out to a place where we can afford to look after the poor properly again. That's why they want it all to be run from Berlin, which they so nearly arranged in the 30's but were thwarted by an old man who did believe in our people. Brexit is absolutely vital, but we won't have enough money to reinstate all the services and freebies that got us into trouble in the first place any time soon. We are going to have to earn it. Snowflakes and Millennials will be asking whether there is an app for doing this. Sadly not. Marching through the streets wishing they were French and living in Cannes won't get it done either. But it's ok. I have faith that they will, if they really think about the fundamental flaw at the heart of the EU (Fiscal control eventually equals German political control) eventually realise that the only sound and valid thing the EU flag ever represented was the Ryder Cup team.