Obviously not but the way landlords are portrayed as predators feeding on the rest of society needs to be challenged. There are many instances similar to my own experience where buildings are repurposed in ways that the public sector would never contemplate. This is simply people seeing a need and meeting it. The essence of entrepreneurial capitalism in a free society.

I would have expected the majority of the posters here to approve.

Edited by Wisbech Eagle (29 Feb 2024 11.08am)

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Exactly what policies do you think will fix the shortages in the NHS and over what time scale? For us to provide the number of Doctors and Nurses we need we must first ensure there are enough candidates seeking to enter the professions. There aren’t, so before we do that we must increase the birth rate, taking women out of the labour market to do so, thus making the problems worse in the short term. Then we need to build the training resources and train the trainers, which will take many years. Automation and AI will help reduce the numbers in future but exactly how and when remains unknown.

We all put our families and future generations first! It’s how we do that which is where we differ.

Universities need overseas income to keep their local fees at affordable levels. Additionally having overseas students study in the UK enables them to appreciate the value of the UK and builds valuable contacts for all our futures.

Family member immigration happens for a variety of reasons. British citizens who meet and form partnerships with other nationals have to decide whether to move or for their partner to come here. Those here on working visas who then obtain citizenship have every right to bring their family here. Would you keep them separated or insist they return to their country of birth? Thus losing the skills we need?

Offering sanctuary is both an international obligation and a moral imperative. It’s when a country becomes immoral that its society will begin to crumble.

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Politicians need to encourage more British people to work in the NHS. It's a process. Those working for the NHS represent a tiny percentage of migrants.

The rest of your excuses are not credible. There are too many people coming here, it is that simple. Numbers needs to be reduced significantly, and our borders must be better controlled.

It is not a question of if this has to happen, but how quickly.

I believe it was tony B liar that said education education education. And then proceeded to let a generation do sociology degrees who regularly ask me do you want fries with that! And which are about as useful as a chocolate fireguard!

The idea that one needs to increase population to serve the needs of the populace and increase profitability of corporates is wrong.

In the Thatcher years Apprenticeships died out and importation of skills became the norm. Why train someone when you can get someone else to do it an steal them! We are still paying for that now.

ALL political parties have in the past screwed up. Its the nature of the beast. The problem is that they never learn from past mistakes.

I have no problem with filling vacant posts with skilled labour, if we have to. I do have a problem with allowing criminals and rapists into the country in whatever form they come over. We have enough of those of our own.

Apprenticeships are now making a come back as are practical hands on training courses. But its going to take 5-10 years for that to have an effect.

In terms of the NHS, allowing the whole of the EU access to the NHS and then not administering the cross charge effectively was a massive and costly error. That went on for decades.

The NHS also has a treat first check if eligible for treatment second rule. Unlike a lot of other countries.

Finally, and I've said this before, 50 years ago equipment was minimal. How we have equipment for everything and that needs replacing every 10 years.

These are 2022 numbers, assumption would be most of the Asian category and British whose ethnicity is Asian.

White minority groups? Are the trolleys being pushed by pikeys?

No figures I can find for citizenship only ethnicity.

Point is overwhelming majority of staff are white so not reliant on immigration

Also higlights Govt obsession with race in data

in June 2022, over 1.3 million people were employed by the NHS

out of NHS staff whose ethnicity was known, 74.3% were white and 25.7% were from ethnic minority groups (not including white minority groups)

68.7% of professionally qualified clinical staff were white, and were 15.9% were Asian

ethnic minority staff made up 15.0% of people in managerial level positions, and 11.3% of senior managerial level positions

ethnic minority staff made up 49.9% of hospital and community health services (HCHS) doctors

Asian staff made up the highest percentage of HCHS doctors working in staff grade, specialty doctor, and associate specialist positions

Edited by HKOwen (29 Feb 2024 10.51am)

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