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There are no effective chemical treatments for FGM, and destruction is the only approved method of dealing with it. You must completely destroy all parts of the plant, lift and burn/landfill the rootball and be careful to collect all leaf debris. Replanting of Fuchsias anywhere in the garden is not recommended- by the time FGM appears it's fair to assume that Fuchsias around and about have also been infected as well.
When I was with my former company (which had been a Fuchsia specialist in its day) I had a customer report that our Fuchsias had FGM. I was called into the greenhouses to take a look. What the customer had spotted was actually Capsid damage on tips of shoots. When I asked for a bit more depth from the customer it turned out that she'd had damage like this on her Fuchsias, had taken samples to the local Fuchsia society and they had identified it as FGM. I asked if she had any other symptoms on her plants, like distorted flowers, and she said no. To this day I'm sure they misdiagnosed the problem and she destroyed her collection of 80+ Fuchsias for no reason...
Not much consolation, but in the USA they have found Gall mite to be a natural enemy of field bindweed - you win...you lose...