Tuesday, 8 March 2011
You voted for this pathetic toff twat.You mugs deserve all you get.
Whilst the NHS is cut back as the Lib Con crooks rob funds from the NHS to pay the bankers, the NHS is open to every sponger in the world that enters this pathetic joke of a ‘nation’.
‘We’ll never turn anyone away’: PM says ‘humanitarian’ NHS will give free treatment to patients from all over the world
By Sue Reid
Last updated at 1:09 AM on 5th March 2011
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The National Health Service is giving free treatment to patients from all over the world, it has been officially admitted.
A letter sent on behalf of the Prime Minister states that the NHS is a ‘humanitarian’ organisation and ‘will never turn away’ a patient, even if he or she is not entitled to free care.
It provoked anger from politicians. One MP said: ‘The NHS should not be an international charity.’
The correspondence emerged as a survey showed that in the past two years alone, hospitals have lost £32million because of debts piled up by illegal migrants, health tourists and foreign visitors.
Traditionally, the NHS has given free care to foreigners who are genuine emergency cases, such as car crash victims here on holiday.
But few questions are asked at hospitals about where patients come from before treatment is started.
Some are so ill that they need a lifetime of care. The letter was sent after a nurse wrote to David Cameron complaining that foreigners routinely get free hospital care.
Her 85-year-old mother had been forced to pay £13,000 for a private knee operation after languishing on an overstretched NHS waiting list for two years.
The nurse, who has worked in 22 hospitals over 35 years, wrote: ‘Fifteen years ago almost every patient I saw was British; five years ago about half were British. Today it is less than 10 per cent.
‘This is a drain on the health service’s resources to the detriment of people who have been contributing to it all their lives.’
The reply, written by a Department of Health official ‘on Mr Cameron’s behalf’, said: ‘The Government’s position is that the NHS is essentially a humanitarian service and no one in need of immediate treatment will ever be denied it because of their immigration status or their ability to pay.’
However in 2000 the High Court ruled that even seriously ill foreigners should be refused free treatment.
Lord Justice Kennedy said: ‘The NHS has enough trouble raising funds to treat those it must treat, without volunteering to treat others at a loss.’
Douglas Carswell, Tory MP for Clacton, said: ‘The letter confirms that we are no longer a national health service but an international health service.’
Emma Boon of the TaxPayers’ Alliance said: ‘British taxpayers cannot afford to pay for the healthcare of the whole world.’
A health department spokesman said: ‘The NHS is first and foremost for the benefit of people who live in this country.
‘Hospitals must take reasonable measures to recover any debts from overseas patients.’
If she wins, I am moving to France.http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/french-mainstream-in-shock-after-poll-puts-le-pen-in-lead-2234262.html
French mainstream in shock after poll puts Le Pen in lead
By John Lichfield
Monday, 7 March 2011
France was shocked yesterday by an opinion poll which suggested that the far-right leader Marine Le Pen could win the first round of the presidential election next spring.
Although the poll was framed in a rather dubious way, and one out of three people gave no opinion, the outcome was a deep humiliation for President Nicolas Sarkozy and a stark warning to his bickering would-be rivals on the centre-left.
Ms Le Pen has now doubled her opinion poll score in the space of four months – from 12 per cent to 23 per cent – revealing a deep anger with French politics-as-usual among voters of both the Right and the Left.
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The Harris poll for Le Parisien put Mr Sarkozy in joint second place on 22 per cent with the Socialist party leader, Martine Aubry. This is the first opinion survey in French history to suggest that the Front National could come first in a national election.
Many politicians and commentators suggested that this was a wilfully rogue result. The runaway favourite to win the Socialist primary in November, and then contest the spring election, is Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund, not Ms Aubry. All other recent presidential polls have put Mr Strauss-Kahn ahead in the first round next April, followed by Mr Sarkozy and then Ms Le Pen.
All the same, the poll fell like a thunder clap on French politics yesterday. Sources within Mr Sarkozy’s centre-right party, the Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (UMP) said it would strengthen the hand of parliamentarians already pressing for the president to be dumped in favour of a more consensual centre-right candidate.
In another poll on Saturday, in Le Figaro, a Sarkozy-supporting newspaper, the president fell to the lowest approval rating of any president in the Fifth Republic (that is, since 1958). Only 22 per cent of those questioned said they thought that he was doing a good job.
Socialist politicians suggested yesterday that Mr Sarkzoy had been caught in his own political trap. Since his anti-Rom migrant campaign last summer, he had frequently adopted far-right language and themes, they said. But the benefits have gone, not to Mr Sarkozy but to Ms Le Pen, as the new, avowedly moderate and attractive, face of the far right since she replaced her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, in January.
The poll, however wayward, suggests that one of the “mainstream” parties could fail to reach the second-round run-off of two candidates next May.
Ms Le Pen, who has avoided her father’s provocative language and declared herself a moderate patriot and a supporter of republican values, said yesterday: “Something big is happening. Faced with an ageing political class with ageing ideas, only the National Front offers people hope.”
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