The truth too unpalatable for politicians to lay out is if you cant see a GP, the likelihood is that it isn’t an immigrant – who is on average younger and healthier than you – ahead in the queue, but one of the growing number of older people. Me for @metrouk.bsky.social metro.co.uk/2025/02/19/n...
The added irony is that this same aging population tend to vote right wing like Farage's Reform and the Tories, thus voting against the NHS, the very thing that's keeping them alive longer in the first place. Plus there's a whole right wing media dedicated to helping them blame others
I thought he said the country was full?
Quite possible that the immigrant is the GP...
If Farage was serious about encouraging Britons to have more children (or any children at all) he’d soon find himself ideologically opposed to the massive societal changes we’d need to implement. Clue: it would include massive state spending. I have no problem with that. Farage does. He’s snookered.
We should lower birth rates. It would be better for the environment! The people who want them to rise are usually Christian fascists, who will abandon mothers after they're forced to give birth, in the hopes it will swell their numbers.
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We need immigrants to work in this country so we can use their taxes to pay pensions. When the state pension was introduced we had twenty workers for every one pensioner. With our aging population that figure has dropped to three workers for every pensioner. Thats y Tories deported the windrush gen
And there's a one in three chances the only immigrant involved is your doctor.
Lowering birthrates don't bother me that much but it requires planning ahead government doesn't seem willing to do. Immigration can work and certainly needs "DEI" revving up, and better governance and certainly less inequality - both areas govt has willfully and stupidly allowed to decay.
all you have to do to get boomers to vote for you is wave a fucking flag then you can piss all over them
There you go again... using facts and logic and all that malarkey! This also points to the wider issue of the tsunami of immigration-centric media discourse drowning out almost everything else other than Trump's daily brain farts. And Labour's televised nail bar raids have only added to this.
Sitting in the GP surgery waiting room is like queuing for a Saga Holiday Coach.
Addressing the well documented age discrimination in the UK job market is an opportunity I think . I recently sent off all my research to my MP Robert Jenrick for his consideration with the recommendation that the giving of feedback to candidates be made a legal requirement .
Yes, he could fuck off and take Tice with him. Russia will gladly take them both.
The case for migration www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
And how many British men died in WWII and subsequent wars?
Farage & co are pissed at their own shortsightedness; They successfully got rid of white north European immigrants with Brexit without realising they’d have to be replaced by immigrants from elsewhere. The U.K. immigration statistics from Asia & Africa are exactly what the racist idiots deserve.
I wonder if Farage has asked the question as to why people are having less children? Could it be affordability? If so his policies will not help. Closure of NHS to Insurence, using more fossil fuels= sicker people.
Wow I though you was going to tell us Farage has hired his nephew to increase the population.
While your GP quite likely is!
He is frightened there won't be anyone to wipe his arse when he goes into his retirement home
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