They Come Over Here, Take Our Patients

Well, here's a thing: it appears that the coalition's efficient, democratically mandated and utterly non-chaotic mugging of the National Health Service has had the unintended consequence of handing it over to the beastly migrants. Since the Government refuses to fund training for nurses at home, hospital trusts are having to recruit from abroad, with the result that a quarter of last year's new nurses were deficient in Britishness. "Instead of training the nurses we need to care for our sick and our old, we go from famine to feast every few years by trying to plug staffing gaps from abroad when care becomes unsafe," complained the general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing. "Then once things are under control, the NHS cuts back again and the cycle repeats." The party that gave us the PFI boondoggle has promised to rectify matters, as have all the other parties; so whether we efficientise further or just kick 'em out, doubtless the problem will soon be solved.