In this the Leave campaign cannot just bleat about TTIP and the supposed impact on the NHS. A campaign largely perceived to be a Tory operation, backed by senior Tory cabinet ministers, can hardly raise a credible and sincere NHS scare. It's a bit like asking Reinhard Heydrich to put on a diversity seminar.
This is why we needed a vision from the start to incentivise Brexit and to make it relevant. That is why we included The Harrogate Agenda in Flexcit. Personally I don't care about all this pathetic whinging about the NHS bill but the fact is, our health service should be locally provided, locally funded, and anything not ruled by medical practice codes and regulation should be entirely managed by local authorities, not national or regional ones.
In this, it matters not one jot if it is publicly or privately owned just so long as it is transparent and accountable and value for money. In other words, it should be democratically controlled. By that measure, Westminster can never be the appropriate vehicle for health governance. To have those necessary controls, where the public and service users are fully consulted, we would need a revolution in governance. One that refocussed parliament on more critical issues external to domestic managerialism.
That is where Brexit comes in. We are not just returning powers to Wesminster - we are breaking the entire established order of UK governance - and to adapt to independence and newly acquired control over key policy areas we would necessarily have to revamp the every tier of UK government. I don't know of anyone who doesn't want that.
The entire narrative of the Leave campaign needs to be structured - with policy branches flowing from a central philosphy. This is what Ukip needed to do in the general election and this is what a Leave campaign needs to do to win a referendum. Because we haven't done that we are all at sea, bleating about trade deficits when hardly anybody knows what a trade deficit is or why it even matters. If we had such a plan, it wouldn't be so bad to have oafs like Boris Johnson on board if they were at least performing to a brief and under adult supervision.
