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http://jpubhealth.oxfordjournals.org/content/38/1/3.full.pdf+html
As even this superficial examination shows, a vote to leave
would only be the beginning of a very long, complicated and
painful process, the result of which is impossible to predict
with any certainty. The UK would still be required to adopt
most aspects of EU policies and standards. It would have to
pay to participate in EU structures. However, it would have
no say in these matters and, in many instances, participation
would be based on much less favourable terms that the
remaining member states. The idea that any country can act
entirely independently in a globalized world, or should do, is a
dangerous fantasy. The case for remaining rests not only on
the absence of any coherent vision of what would happen if
the UK left. The EU has provided continued bold and effective
action on public health policy and designed an excellent
funding framework for collaborative health research. The loss
of the UK’s strong participation and policy voice in the EU
would, as Lord Hague, the former Conservative Foreign
Secretary, recently quipped ‘not be a very clever day’s work’.2