The larger asylum centres have a dedicated dentist and GP IIRC. Some asylum seekers have been quite put out to discover that on being granted asylum they are suddenly no longer eligible for the care … (View Post)

Is this like Blair’s “no one will come the UK from eastern Europe - why would they want to do that?” prediction though? (View Post)

It’s a gift to the big consulting companies like Tata who can recruit in India & ship people over here for a few years. On the other hand - we have similar agreements with a swathe of countries i… (View Post)

NB. IIRC the justification for the lower NI is that Indians here on short term work visas have to pay the NHS surcharge (~£1k / year). If they’re only being cut the element of NI that notionally pays… (View Post)

It is absolutely insane frankly. Labour has just comprehensively lost a local election where the electorate was very clear that immigration was their top priority and /this/ is the bullshit they come… (View Post)