Comments on: Whole world entitled to free health care on the NHS

By: Mail Man

Mail Man — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:45:56 +0000

Ron, instead of throwing up a load of ‘whatabout….’ questions how about sticking to the subject?

‘New Labour’s immigration policy’ is an immigration policy tighter than any that has gone before (as in fact is the case with every UK Gov since the late 1950s).
They have not just let everyone in.
They have seen a large movement of workers coiming in from the EU.
Which is nothing like the same thing.
Asylum is also a completely unrelated issue.

Given that everyone is a taxpayer these days (thanks to the tory shift to indirect taxation) it can hardly be said that anyone living here does not contribute……whether they should be here or not.
We’re all taxpayers now.

By: sim-o

sim-o — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:01:51 +0000

Ron, are you sure that the immigration policy is to just let anybody in? Besides, these provisions aren’t for immigrants, they are in the slightly different category of asylum seeker, or in old fashioned terms ‘refugees’. They are for an extremely small percentage of people in very dire circumstances.

It would be better to improve healthcare in the home country of these people. I am not sure how much of an effect it would have on their leaving their country but either way that is a slightly different issue of how charity and aid is used and the conditions under which it is given.
The issue here is helping, or not, a small but vulnerable amount of people that, although cannot stay in this country, need help.