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1 in 4 NHS Doctors are foreign nationals. Fairly straightforward. I detect you are hoping for some spirited debate about foreign criminals. Sorry to disappoint but I would in the main send them back from where they came.

Must confess I have never really thought about ex-pats returning. You are correct in assuming a lot of people don't care about ex-pats in the Costa but it doesn't change the fact planes of them would be coming home if we leave the EU. As an absolute minimum we need to start counting people...

I would be the first to agree that non-EU citizens coming here to work should have their healthcare paid for by their sponsors for a couple of years. One imagines Spain and Portugal might be a bit angry if we did the same for EU people as they have a lot of our retirees there. That being said...

But if you believe in a low tax small government society, don't we all have a personal responsibility to try and access services like the NHS as little as possible?

Could it not be argued they are trying to reduce future public spending by offering prevention rather than cure?

I never have worked out why Cameron took the Conservatives out of the EPP EU Parliament grouping. With the German economy cooling and the demand for foreign labour diminishing, it is beginning to sound like Merkel might listen to ideas for restrictions on freedom of movement.