'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.
