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Goodbye Gove. You were wrong about almost everything.

[Gerard Gregg-Smith #Rejoin #WillOfPeople=Remain @GerardGreggSmit]

You can get your questions about this paper (and other related papers by Insilico) answered. You can now "chat with the paper" here: https://t.co/pdpGCsSZIY

[Gerard Gregg-Smith #Rejoin #WillOfPeople=Remain @GerardGreggSmit]

New paper published in Nature Biotechnology:
“A small-molecule TNIK inhibitor targets fibrosis in preclinical and clinical models"
https://t.co/UsFaI7abOq

Used AI to discover the target, TNIK 2, and to design a novel molecule for the target.

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Trump's words are a metaphor for what he is doing to the Republican Party.

[Gerard Gregg-Smith #Rejoin #WillOfPeople=Remain @GerardGreggSmit]

Does Mark Francois not understand that abstaining is a vote for the majority? Or was he deliberately supporting the bill?

[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

"Brexit is a con, a trick, a swindle, a fraud, a deception that will hurt most of those people it promised to help."

David Lammy in January 2019, speaking the truth about Brexit, a truth which most politicians still dare not utter

Please retweet if you agree with Lammy's words in 2019.
#RejoinEU

[Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward]

Brexit Fears

In early 2019, I crowdsourced a long list of top Brexit fears from 100s of Twitter responses. (This was before the final deal was signed, and long before we actually left.)

See how many still look valid today. You may be shocked.

THE ECONOMY
- Short-term economic shock
- Long-term economic damage
- Job losses
- Loss of existing trade deals
- Collapse of the pound
- Lower direct investment
- Destruction of UK manufacturing sector
- Rising cost of living
- Increasing national debt
- Loss of single market benefits
- Complex customs procedures
- Higher tariffs
- VAT and customs charges on shipments from the EU
- Burden of extra customs clearances
- Additional red tape for companies dealing with the EU
- Departure of large foreign firms
- Erosion of service sector following loss of financial passporting and transferable qualifications
- Collapse of UK agriculture
- Rise in bankruptcies

PRIVATIONS AND SHORTAGES
- Food shortages
- Disrupted medical supplies
- Rationing and substitution of pharmaceutical products
- No money to reverse cuts in public services
- Return to austerity

EROSION OF FREEDOMS AND PROTECTIONS
- Loss of freedom of movement (in both directions)
- Loss of rights for UK citizens living in the EU
- Loss of rights for citizens of EU countries living in the UK
- Loss of EU citizenship (which we all have by default as UK citizens now)
- Lower environmental standards
- Loss of worker protections
- Erosion of human rights
- Possible NHS privatisation
- Lower food hygiene standards (especially, but not exclusively, vs the USA)
- Families counting both UK and EU citizens torn apart
- No ECJ oversight

SOCIAL CHANGES
- Rise of fascism and the far right
- Increasing fear of the “other”
- Normalisation of racism
- Rise in hatred and division
- Legitimisation of nationalism
- Xenophobia, homophobia and intolerance becoming more mainstream
- Marginalisation of minorities
- Widening gap between rich and poor, as the well-off ride out Brexit, while everyone else suffers
- Deepening inequality between London/SE England and the rest of the UK.
- Permanent lack of respect for experts
- Diminution of the rule of law
- Increasing anti-intellectualism
- Permanent Leave/Remain antagonism

NORTHERN IRELAND AND IRELAND
- Hard border between NI and Ireland
- Collapse of the Good Friday Agreement
- Return to violence in Northern Ireland
- Calls for Irish reunification
- Reawakening of anti-Irish rhetoric

THE UNION
- Huge increase in support for independence in Scotland
- Calls for Welsh independence
- Breakup of the UK

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
- Isolation from medical research
- Loss of the Erasmus student exchange programme
- Collapse of our world-leading higher education sector

POLITICS
- Power vacuum replaces the normal functions of the British state
- Focus on Brexit continues to sideline vital legislation and initiatives
- Extreme tactics (prorogation of Parliament, etc.) become the norm
- Erosion of democracy
- Slide towards autocracy
- Deeper entrenchment of partisan politics over the national interest
- Increasing corruption in politics (dark money, foreign power interference etc.)
- “Remain purge” at all levels of politics i.e. only Leave politicians have a role in shaping our future

OUR PLACE IN THE WORLD
- Weakening of European alliances that have helped keep the peace
- UK turning into a global outcast
- Becoming a puppet of the USA
- Loss of influence in Europe
- Destabilisation of Europe
- Little influence over world affairs
- Isolation in an increasingly global world
- World will see us as a racist country
- Irrelevance on the global stage
- Loss of our European identity
- Less national security cooperation
- Cultural isolation

EVERYTHING ELSE
- Fear of the unknown: what happens after Brexit day?
- Rise in mental health issues
- Increasing suicide rate
- Inability to recognise or admit to Brexit being the key contributor to all the problems listed above

As you can see, a few concerns were overblown, but most feel eerily accurate.

That's the real tragedy of Brexit: the problems it has and is causing were both predictable, and predicted. And yet we shot ourselves in both feet anyway.

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

NHS staff are not failing, they are being failed, by successive Conservative Governments.

Please RT if you agree.

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We’re trying to get as many followers as Rishi Sunak so we can show the government just how many people are prepared to fight for the NHS and its staff

Please can you take a few seconds to help by following us and retweeting this?

[Gerard Gregg-Smith #Rejoin #WillOfPeople=Remain @GerardGreggSmit]

@jnichretired Yes, i signed up to instagram a long time ago, then deleted from my phone, but Threads still let me use my instagram sign-in details.

[Gerard Gregg-Smith #Rejoin #WillOfPeople=Remain @GerardGreggSmit]

I'm trying out Threads. Feel free to follow me. https://t.co/4rm9uJ0qVZ.