The NHS has never got to grips with being the 'de facto' free World Health Service, open to anyone who is able to pitch up at A&E. Never mind the millions of extra immigrants who have arrived over the last few years, often with a lifetime of health issues to sort out. Imagine if you had a pub with free drinks, would you be surprised if it was abused & needed more money pouring in for ever?
Here's Peter Mandelson on Labour's immigration policy:-
Speaking at a conference organised by Labour’s Progress group, Lord Mandelson said: “The issue of immigration is more economic than social. The problem has grown during the period of economic stagnation over the past five, six years, because in 2004 when as a Labour government we were not only welcoming people to come into this country to work, we were sending out search parties for people and encouraging them, in some cases, to take up work in this country because we were almost, a sort of full employment economy.
“The situation is different obviously now. We have to just realise and just take cognisance that the entry to the labour market of many people of non-British origin is hard for people who are finding it very difficult to find jobs, who find it hard to keep jobs. For these people immigration tends to loom large in their lives and in their worlds.
“Now that is an inescapable fact and we have to understand it, address it, engage with people in discussion about it.”
So it's rather rich now for Labour MP's to be bemoaning their effects on our public services & blaming the Tories for it.
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