Red Okktober wrote:Ray of Sunshine wrote:Because the NHS has foreigners working for it that means we no longer have to treat foreigners? have you been in a hospital in the last 20 years? Or even to the GP surgery? The numbers are enormous.
Ray, there was a thread a few months back, can't remember what it was called, but it was fucking hilarious. Canny practically denied that immigrants use the NHS and that they only ever work for it.
He claimed immigrants were all 'young and healthy' and didn't go to the docs, ie never got ill, never needed to go into hospital, never needed to go to the dentists or opticians, and didn't make use of the NHS maternity facilities.
Try and find it, it's s corker!
The opticians part alone makes it worth a read - he said immigrants that needed glasses would already be wearing them when they arrived and didn't need to have eye treatment on the NHS!
Another desperate diversion.
I said that EU migrants are generally young, fit and here to work.
I at no time said that they never use the NHS, but in reality if you go to hospitals and surgeries they are full of the elderly and the very young. Not EU migrants.
The same comment applied to dentists, as I recall. You seemed to say that I was claiming that all immigrants never use UK dentists. I said no such thing, but do say that being younger and with less likelihood of decay, they are less inclined to be having dental treatment than older UK natives.
It was, as I recall, you who insinuated that I was saying that immigrants never use the NHS. A typical right wing tactic, oft used and always ridiculed. The topic at the time was talking about EU people coming here to work, not a blanket 'all immigrants' thread.