[SMHarman]

Damien - with respect as a 17 year old it is all very well to support a 3rd term when you don't have to pay for that 3rd term.

The NHS may be being saved by these outside workers, but the domino effect is that the healthcare systems of the Phillipines and many other countries are being decimated by our poaching of staff. The Indian doctors who moved over here and propped up the NHS in the 60s wanted to come here with their families and integrate.

Those fleeing abuse from their nations should be glad to settle in any safe nation, Germany, France etc, they migrate here as the benefits system supports them to a far more generous (though in reality hardly generous) level than in those countries.

And then, the costs of supporting this do not come from your wage packet. I'm sure you will still be pro-Blair when you are 21 and graduating having had 3 years of limited support from the Government and been university educated while the system was in a state of transition and scholarships and bursaries from alumni were not in place to support the educational institution going forward.

That said - I'm glad that as a 17 year old you have decided to opt into the political decision making process and make your views known. Too many of your peers don't care and then get mad when they can vote but don't and don't see change.