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[Misc] A Few Key Workers Have A Message For Us...
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Horses Arse
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Message for May, Johnson, Hancock etc and the twats that give such scumbags a mandate to destroy the very fabric of this country
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Wrong-Direction
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Green Cross Code Man
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Pathetic to politicise a virus.
The NHS has been underfunded and the Tory's take a share of the blame for that. However Brexit was never about stopping immigration completely, it was about stopping unfettered immigration.
Anyway, at a time of national disaster, when all the rules are torn up and doubtless some conservatives will re-think their ideas about the NHS, it is shameful to try to make political capital like this.
The NHS has been underfunded and the Tory's take a share of the blame for that. However Brexit was never about stopping immigration completely, it was about stopping unfettered immigration.
Anyway, at a time of national disaster, when all the rules are torn up and doubtless some conservatives will re-think their ideas about the NHS, it is shameful to try to make political capital like this.
maltaseagull
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They have underfunded social care and the NHS to be sure and hopefully, after this crisis they will change their prorities.
However,nobody can possibly say that social care and the NHS were fantastic between 1997 and 2008 either.
No need to rehearse the Brexit arguments again - but we all know that it brought out a rather nasty xenophobic response in many. I think now is the perfect time to remind the general population (whichever way they voted in 2016) that the NHS is hugely reliant on migrant workers - nearly a third of all NHS doctors, and nearly 20% of nurses are migrants. The discourse for much of the lead up to the EU Referendum was that nasty foreigners were taking all our jobs and leaching off society, when it was patently clear that EU nationals contributed far more to the UK than they took out. I find it almost comically ironic that - at a time of national crisis - we discover that we owe so much to migrants (not just within the NHS, but in so many other key sectors).
brightn'ove
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Sorry but that is bollocks, it's exactly the time to do it.
Green Cross Code Man
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So that is what you do lol.
Tom Bombadil
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Maybe tell that to the Daily Telegraph who are pumping out articles about how brexit means Britain would cope better and how the eu is failing in thoer response
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This with a multiple bells attached to it.
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I agree.
jonny.rainbow
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Was it pathetic for women to politicise the First World War in their argument for universal suffrage?
Lincoln Imp
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It might be wrong to associate Brexit with politics. It's looking ever more like a faith-based religious cult.
I mean really?
Badger Boy
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The Brexit people will never let reasoned logic get in the way of their arguments.
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Surely, recognising and appreciating the immigrant workers that are in the front line helping in this pandemic isn't politicising it. Politicising the pandemic would be asking why we began with 22,000 less NHS workers since the referendum, and I don't believe anyone will do that until this nightmare is over 
gripper stebson
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Oddly this pandemic, and Boris being so personally affected, will make it incredibly hard for the Tories to dismantle the NHS, if they had plans too. That would be pretty brazen!
clapham_gull
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Completely the right time to do this with Raab and Pritel looking like rabbits in the headlights, their selfish ideological nonsense exposed for what it is.
Raab being the one who told a disabled women on Live TV that putting funding into health and social care was just a childish wish list, Pritel defining social care as unskilled.
Horrible nasty over-promoted neo-liberals who'd be more comfortable in the White House at the moment than the cabinet.
Neither give a **** about immigration, just look at the reality of the policies they put in place post Brexit, opening the doors to non EU workers and students, a points based system in name only.
Immigration was simply something to frighten people with whilst they got on with dismantled the state, removing health and safety laws and making us work longer hours towards their Singapore style economy utopia.
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Unfortunately, now is the only time for these messages to make an impact. I think otherwise these issues will be swept under the carpet within weeks of life returning to normal.
They could start by giving all foreign NHS frontline workers citizenship...
This crisis has proved emphatically how important foreign workers are to keeping the country running. Remember how they’re taking our jobs according to Brexiteers? And yet, even with the entire country doing sod all, farmers are still having to fly in Romanians to pick their fruit...
They could start by giving all foreign NHS frontline workers citizenship...
This crisis has proved emphatically how important foreign workers are to keeping the country running. Remember how they’re taking our jobs according to Brexiteers? And yet, even with the entire country doing sod all, farmers are still having to fly in Romanians to pick their fruit...
I noticed how Brexiteers are quick to try and seize the moral high ground (don't politicise essential working) when it suits them, but equally energetic about making political capital (Johnston's new baby) when the opportunity arises. That is pathetic.....