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Originally Posted by Damien
But there was been no evidence of health tourism. I.E Theres no proven strain on the NHS. Also over 100,000 people working in the NHS, including doctors, are immigrants. On a whole only 8% of immigrants claim money of the state and even then they get 30% less than a british person. Overall immigrants give more money to the state than take.
In the last two years immgration has dropped sharply from two years ago when it had reached problem levels.
on another note, I did not know that cancer deaths are down 12%, thats good news.  |
You are looking so hard at the big picture that you're missing some of the specifics.
This isn't about 'health tourism', it's about vast numbers of asylum seekers being housed in places like Dover and swamping local services like the GP and the dentist. Getting an appointment at your local surgery can be hard enough at the best of times, but when the surgery's catchment is swollen by a measurable percentage in a very short time, you have a problem.
This isn't about being 'anti-immigrant', as I have already said. If I were saying that immigration is a bad thing
per se, then your point about immigrants working in the NHS would be a good one. However, as I am
not saying that immigration is a bad thing, your point is a little irrelevant. The UK has a skills shortage in certain areas and a population level in long-term decline. We do need immigration - we need
controlled immigration that addresses such needs yet without overloading local services.
Final point ... which Party was in power two years ago when immigration reached 'problem levels'? And is that Party not therefore a little cheeky to take credit for falling levels when all it has done is to take steps to remedy a problem of its own making?