Comment on NHS in England told to slash recruitment of overseas-trained medics
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 1 day ago
This is just insane. Since the Windrush. The NHS has had a high dependency on immigration. Mainly due to our own lower pay of staff. Many qualified British medical staff can get higher paying work elsewhere. Both foreign and non NHS UK jobs. This is why multiple governments from both parties haver always offered NHS training and employment as a way to encourage immigration from lower paying nations.
If the gov does not have the funding (wish to raise taxes). To pay NHS staff and UK care staff a wage that competes with higher paying jobs in the UK or aboard. This will directly lead to a collapse of the NHS.
Exactly like the Tories have been trying for decades.
Denjin@lemmings.world 21 hours ago
With the recent lurch to the right in this country, Labour sees becoming the conservatives as the key to election success, hence this current government essentially becoming David Camerons government. The tories have become reform and most bizzarely of all, with the exception of immigration, reform have pivoted so far round as to essentially have the same policy platform as the green party as a way to differentiate themselves from Badenoch and the tories.
Cutting winter fuel and cutting welfare and increasing defence spending are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to new
toryLabour policy.HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 21 hours ago
Honestly. I think the current gov is significantly to the right of Cameron on immigration, disability rights and equality in general.