[Politics] Priti Patel thanks Front line NHS staff by increasing their immigration health surcharge

[rogersix]

Country would absolutely grind to a halt without them

i'm sure all the flag waving patriots will step into the breech as and when required

 

[Surf's Up]

Prevents/discourages/hinders.

I need a Thesaurus.

Try tackling the issue instead of trying to be clever and avoiding the issue.

 

[ManOfSussex]

I would imagine Ian Hislop would have a field day with two posters on this thread for defending the indefensible. They are the very embodiment of the boss of one of my favourite TV detectives who often said, just before the sleuth was shown to be bang to rights about something the boss would rather not contemplate, "Now, let's not jump to conclusions Morse"

We shouldn't jump to conclusions though. We all back Britain and believe in Boris to get Covid-19 done and then focus on the important things like delivering the exact NHS people voted for and funding our Brexit means Brexit instead and taking back control of our laws, borders and money and signing great new free trade deals around the world with all the countries that are queuing up to do so etc, etc.

Boris appointed Priti because Boris knew that she was the best placed, best skilled and best qualified to be the finest Home Secretary this great nation has ever seen, as you rightly point out above. There's no 'may' about this. She IS.

Boris knows exactly what he's doing, just like Priti, so all this criticism is totally unfair.

Back Boris. Protect Priti. Stay at Home Office.

 

[midnight_rendezvous]

Vile, out of touch, unempathetic Tory is vile, out of touch and unempathetic. Is anyone actually surprised?

 

[Danny Wilson Said]

And yet some people still seem to believe that foreigners come over here and use the NHS for free.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Vile, out of touch, unempathetic Tory is vile, out of touch and unempathetic. Is anyone actually surprised?

Priti Patel seems to think you can just bully your way to the top job. Fair enough, it's got her further than she ever deserved. But it stops here

 

[NooBHA]

The country has to be run like a business, and in business there is no room for sentiment. At least that's how it seems.

That's an absolutely flippant response to what was a legitimate question.

I don't say that there shouldn't be a charge. Personally I don't agree with the charge but these charges were in place when people made their employment application so they entered into this contract voluntarily.

However, what if those health workers. Let's say the little Portuguese lad and the New Zealand woman who supposedly saved Boris Johnsons life.

What if they said. "My shift is finishing now . Gotta go. Bye. I don't care if then next people due on next are off sick with Corona Virus. There are no friends in Business. Prime Minister or no Prime Minister . My shift lasts 8 hours. Not my problem"

You are right a country is run like a Business but when some staff in that business are saving the lives of other staff in that business. You reward them accordingly. Not kick them in the teeth

Edit . Sorry that re read your post. You weren't flippant. Last line seems to suggest your concern .My apologies

 

[vegster]

That's an absolutely flippant response to what was a legitimate question.

I don't say that there shouldn't be a charge. Personally I don't agree with the charge but these charges were in place when people made their employment application so they entered into this contract voluntarily.

However, what if those health workers. Let's say the little Portuguese lad and the New Zealand woman who supposedly saved Boris Johnsons life.

What if they said. "My shift is finishing now . Gotta go. Bye. I don't care if then next people due on next are off sick with Corona Virus. There are no friends in Business. Prime Minister or no Prime Minister . My shift lasts 8 hours. Not my problem"

You are right a country is run like a Business but when some staff in that business are saving the lives of other staff in that business. You reward them accordingly. Not kick them in the teeth

Edit . Sorry that re read your post. You weren't flippant. Last line seems to suggest your concern .My apologies

Inseed, Our hero's in the NHS come from so many countries and to even think of charging them is an obscenity. No need to apologise !

 

[Gwylan]

It's a good job Patel wasn't in charge during wartime when those Polish and Czech fighter pilots came over. "Thanks for your efforts in the RAF lads; here's the bill for the bullets you used."

 

[pastafarian]

The low skilled workers referred to don't earn £30K a year (neither do some skilled health workers) so they won't be given permits under Ms Patel's Home Office rule.

Skilled migrant workers dont need to be earning £30,000 to get a permit under the points based system

 

[clapham_gull]

We shouldn't jump to conclusions though. We all back Britain and believe in Boris to get Covid-19 done and then focus on the important things like delivering the exact NHS people voted for and funding our Brexit means Brexit instead and taking back control of our laws, borders and money and signing great new free trade deals around the world with all the countries that are queuing up to do so etc, etc.

Boris appointed Priti because Boris knew that she was the best placed, best skilled and best qualified to be the finest Home Secretary this great nation has ever seen, as you rightly point out above. There's no 'may' about this. She IS.

Boris knows exactly what he's doing, just like Priti, so all this criticism is totally unfair.

Back Boris. Protect Priti. Stay at Home Office.

My apologies.





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[Harry Wilson's tackle]

No, he employed her because she is very right of centre and neo liberal.

It has little to do with her qualities to be Home Secretary. I can tell you from those in the inside she is ****ing useless.

Boris is very liberal in fact if he had it his way he would be negotiating the continuation of freedom of movement post Brexit.

Fortunately his lawyers managed to slam down the reports of his discussions he was having as foreign secretary on that subject with foreign ambassadors.

Those on the right wing neo liberal wing of the party know they haven't got anyone electable but Boris was very popular with the members. For Boris to win he had to fill his cabinet with them.

The government is a marriage of convenience.

If that wasn't the case Gove wouldn't be there.



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I think [MENTION=34106]ManOfSussex[/MENTION] was being facetious.....

Apologies if you've whooshed me.

 

[clapham_gull]

I think [MENTION=34106]ManOfSussex[/MENTION] was being facetious.....

Apologies if you've whooshed me.

Ha ha.

I must stop reading NSC on

1) Mobile

2) Without glasses.

 

[cunning fergus]

Priti Patel has sparked anger by refusing to cut or axe the huge fees paid by foreign healthcare workers to help fund the NHS – just three weeks after promising to “review” the controversial charges.

It means the immigration health surcharge is still due to soar from £400 a year to £624 from this October – to be and extended to all EU citizens from next January, when Brexit is completed. Because it is also paid by spouses and children, the total cost can reach a crippling £8,000 for a family of four on a five-year work permit, or with limited leave to remain in the UK.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/priti-patel-nhs-fees-foreign-health-staff-immigration-surcharge-a9517356.html"]https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/priti-patel-nhs-fees-foreign-health-staff-immigration-surcharge-a9517356.html[/URL]

Well thanks for putting your lives on the line to protect us.

Maybe one of the regulars would like to step up to defend this ?

We need as many foreign nurses and doctors as we can get, I can’t stop clapping those workers we have from poorer countries than the U.K. That said I am sure we all agree we shouldn’t strip those countries bare of their health workers.

Back in the day when this country had an empire when we took poorer countries natural resources, it must be right in our more enlightened times we don’t take take their limited Human Resources by dangling NHS money. Otherwise it’s no wonder their compatriots would leave their countries to reach somewhere their doctors and nurses get to.

Of course, these days when we are sensitive about the affect of the virus on our communities it’s a tragic reality that our BAME health workers are some how more susceptible to the illness. I trust this isn’t a numbers game though otherwise the flip side of that view would be that we don’t have enough white people dying.

That wouldn’t sell many papers though......Merry Christmas.

 

[Justice]

That women shouldn’t even be in government with the things she’s been caught doing.

 

[bWize]

That women shouldn’t even be in government with the things she’s been caught doing.

Both Boris and Priti Patel were relieved from their respective parliamentary positions a couple of years ago, yet now leading the show? If alarm bells aren't ringing at this point then a lot of the sheeple aren't paying attention.

They are highly paid puppets for the the big corporations/deep state/Israel and couldn't give a shit about you. Wake up ffs!

Just do a google on Priti Patels previous work lobbying for tobacco industries. Or her secret meetings with Israeli officials without UK Parlimentry consent. This isn't some tin foil hat conspiracy, it's facts. Honestly blows my mind how taken in and manipulated people are by these scum bags.

Edit: Wasn't directed at you Justice

 

[Palacefinder General]

That women shouldn’t even be in government with the things she’s been caught doing.

With the Bully-don Club prat at the helm you've got two peas in a pod unfortunately. The only thing in Johnson’s favour is that he possesses a modicum of self-awareness and can tone down the narcissism when required, unlike complete mentalist Patel.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

With the Bully-don Club prat at the helm you've got two peas in a pod unfortunately. The only thing in Johnson’s favour is that he possesses a modicum of self-awareness and can tone down the narcissism when required, unlike complete mentalist Patel.

I just watched Gove on Andrew Marr. Now that man, Gove, is frightening. A zealot who would claim that while his shit is brown, it is less brown than it was a month ago, and all steps are being taken to make it less brown, and the experts predict that it will soon be less smelly. The alternative is that he never shits himself again and we can't have that.