Tuesday, April 15, 2014

NHS and Quitting The EU.

'If we pulled up the drawbridge, our NHS would collapse overnight.' But ...
1.  They’re not coming from European Union countries.  Since 1997 more than 90,000 international nurses have registered in the UK - the major source countries being the Philippines, Australia, India and South Africa. 
Source: Royal College of Nurses
https://www.rcn.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/78703/003049.pdf (page 2 paragraph 2)
2.  No-one’s suggesting pulling up the drawbridge anyway.  Outside the EU we’d still have a work permit scheme to allow needed skills to come in to the UK.  Britain wouldn’t lose a single doctor or nurse as a result of leaving the EU.
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Jonah Sulks Because God Does Not Destroy Nineveh Following Their Repentance. In My Part of England He'd Be Described As 'Mardy'.

  5)  Jonah had gone out and sat down at a place east of the city. There he made himself a shelter, sat in its shade and waited to see what ...