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It honestly beggars belief (mine anyway), that we allow, tolerate, encourage and, in many cases, vote for leaders, institutions, media, justice systems etc that appear to be actively beavering away at denigrating, guilt lading, shame loading, and destruction of the principles that makes this country and the West, the very special, rare and unique places in a very dark world.
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The point about the medical employment aspect of immigration rings out with me, I work in the NHS, my wife was an ITU nurse for 25 years and has since gone into Nurse Education. We see all sides of this in our house. This isnt just about nursing, its all aspects of the NHS staffing.
Here are some basics from my point of view:
1. The NHS is riven with "medical professionals" from Africa and Asia who were trained to a standard appropriate to those areas within the means available to those areas, these are the ones with "verifiable" competencies, there are plenty more in a competency "grey area".
There are also societal, historical and cultural problems associated.
2. On the other hand we hold our "indigenous" people in the UK to incredibly (in my opinion unreasonably) high standards before they are allowed to practice. The idea of medical practice being a Vocation of compassion aligned with a good sense of safety and "apprenticeship" appears lost now in especially the nursing education sector.
The two differing systems meet and the differences are starkly opposed. The idea i suppose is that Number 2 will make up for, and through some form of osmosis "bring up" the standard of Number 1. The reality is the other way round, Number 1 does what it likes, how it likes, and will complain bitterly about perceived ill treatment if Number 2 tries to get an honest, professional day out of the vast majority of number 1.
Here's a further reality - the NHS management from the level of Band 7 to the Trust Chiefs are not on the side of Number 2, mostly because they are afraid of number 1. We are told in very much other words and actions from management to "accept mediocrity" .
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I'm an Irishman that's lived here in the UK for 28 years, I remember my childhood schooling and learning about WW2 and beyond, even in Ireland in the height of the 1970s enormous respect was given to the Queen. She, for me anyway, represented a way thinking, a resilience, a proudness, that these days we seem to be taught to be ashamed of, guilty for, something to be financially, and morally atoned for, till end of days.
I say No!
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On the subject of waste and procurement i see crazy spending in the NHS.
Costs for very basic items is at what I would describe as "wedding level". I hope people know what i mean here, but essentially the NHS, and all other government arms such as the military also pay an absolute premium for items.
There needs to be introduced a "fair fee" law for procurement, no more of this paying £125000 for an industrial off the shelf circuit breaker supplying power to hospital wards, thats one example off the top of my head.
If a company cannot supply at a fair price they lose their contract. Which i might add is the source of the problem, contracts! The government doesnt employ highly skilled negotiators and contract writers, that needs to change, the chumps they have doing it are outclassed at every turn by the corporate negotiators and writers. We miss the things that they certainly do not. The companies dont care they'll sell their goods to the government in any case, we are a high spend, high standard of living country with 70 million people, no market will turn down that revenue even if it is at a fair price.
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@Spartan remember one thing about that list there, what are the chances that we have, in all rules of fairness, gotten the "cream of the political crop"? The answer is 900000ish to 1. This is at best, a grotesque example of positive action at work, or at worst, a deplorable example of positive discrimination.
The underlying thought that "we must" elevate these people to the positions highest in the land over real talent is astoundingly stupid.
I ask myself this, is there any rush in anywhere else outside of the west to elevate our people into the highest positions in the lands of say, Ghana, Pakistan, China, Brazil, the list is endless and we need to take their example to heart.
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I work in the NHS Laboratory services having come from 23 years in the Armed Forces. I have been in this job since i retired from Forces last year. I never thought that after all i had seen serving the country that something like the NHS could break me. I was wrong.
I am surrounded by colleagues that frequently display feckless idiocy, borderline malpractice, managers who are distant, ignorant and lack basic skills in leadership and supervision. Its also going without saying that "my face isn't reflected where i work" to borrow a term from the nu-speak. There are 47 in my section just 4 of which are white males - for the rest - overwhelmingly ethnic, overwhelmingly female. I can deal with all of that if it werent for the constant displays i listed above.
The straw broke for me last week, I challenged a colleagues unacceptable behaviour (a junior colleague that is a visible minority) where she has gone missing for 40 mins from the dept, it was very busy and no senior management were on the floor. When said colleague came back i asked politely if she had returned from lunch, replied one word "No". I pushed and asked her where she had been, one word replied "Toilet". I pushed again and asked why she was gone for 40 mins, now the true disdain and malice presented itself when she replied in a terse, dripping with disdain one word answer "PERIODS".
She reported me to the band 8 manager who took me to her office, many truths were spoken and to cut a longer story short - walked out of the dept after informing the manager that i didn't feel safe to handle patient results. This incident was only the straw that broke the camels back. I am now awaiting assessment for mental health issues.
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The Leadership, be it Government, charity, corporate, religious, institutional, are all infected with people that believe the world exists "as one". The sad fact is this in an idea that is hundreds of years away trying to be brought about in the Now. Aside from elements of the west, the vast majority of the world is nothing like "at one" with the rest of the world and has no intention of being for a very long time. In the matters of economic, cultural, religious, military etc, this is so.
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Agreed also, I found myself at a crossroads in life in my early 20s. I was doing drugs, in a very low place. I'd been brought up well by my very busy parents and felt constantly I was letting myself down and them. Despite all that it appeared that I was going to continue on this road of destruction.
I remember distinctly passing by the forces career office on the high street one day and thought to go in and talk to them. I'd felt it wasnt for me, then after a series of quick, unfortunate events, where I'd almost really gotten myself into a no return situation, I decided to sign up.
I then spent 23 years serving honourably, saving perhaps thousands of lives as part of the medical service in the forces. Got myself properly educated to masters level, married a lovely girl and had 2 boys, living in my own home which is now mortgage free at 47.
As much as I didnt want to join the forces whatsoever, it was the single best thing I've ever done and has turned not just my life round, but many others.
I wholeheartedly agree that national service might provide the younger generations coming up with an "alternative" to nihilism and selfish behaviour. Particularly the poorer in society with little or no other way.
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Agreed, speaking as an "immigrant" I came to the UK from Ireland in the early 90s, joined the Navy and spent 23 years in it, I have 2 sons that I bring up to be proud of the country I've come to. I work now in the damnable NHS and can't believe what's being allowed to happen to the country.
My education in Ireland was very balanced about Britain, sure we learnt of the bad things, but we learnt of the inventions, and ingenuity also, the role in WW2 etc.
This is the best country in the world being slowly turned into Mogadishu by importing en masses the waifs and strays of the 3rd world with nothing to offer only their tribalism, poor work ethic, sickly genetic issues, and backward religions.
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