I’ve been inundated with tweets calling me xenophobic and racist as a result of this @ofocBrexit tweet. But here’s why I think we should train our own young people to be doctors rather than import foreign doctors... thread.https://twitter.com/OFOCBrexit/status/1086947236192219136 …
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I can’t speak for the doctors but my partner is a heart nurse and says the EU nurses are not trained to the high standard UK nurses are.
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Controlled immigration will reduce demand on UK services, inc NHS. Controlled immigration will also attract the appropriately trained overseas medical talent. £13bn saved on EU membership annually can be better invested into NHS services and training, ensuring increased supply.
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Oh for goodness sake. There *is no* £13bn saved annually. As of Q1 2018, UK gdp was 2% lower than trend & still falling relative to peers & where we’d have been. That’s worth £40bn per year. If you want £13bn pa, you can have 2x that by staying in and paying the membership feepic.twitter.com/zqVt8IGwEp
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No thanks. I'd much prefer to exit from a 70's trading bloc, and gear the UK to greater trade growth outside of the Eu. Implementing our own independent trade policy. Let's stop crying remain, gets some certainty back, and allow investment into UK economy once more = Gdp growth.
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I mean, you’re welcome to hold any political views you want, but don’t deny facts that make their assumptions untenable. You can say “I know it’s hugely damaging and we’ll all be much poorer but I still want to keep more foreigners out” for example.
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What's damaging is a 3 yr campaign to overturn brexit at any cost. Its damaging UK democracy, society, negotiations, creates uncertainty in mkts, holds back investment & Gdp growth. Legitimised & given license by a remain majority in hoc, the cabinet & mainstream media. Criminal
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No the data shows the slowdown starting from the date of Brexit. Leavers held 3 key portfolios. Deflection (and perverse) to blame it on opposition to X rather than X Man: let’s move to the moon. Wife: is that wise? Later, it’s not going well Man: wife’s undermining is to blame.
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We haven't implemented brexit yet! See previous reply
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Julia, it's in the video you are clearly saying that a doctors origin might impact their quality. Yes they are because we signed up to an agreement that means our doctors and their doctors will share a mutual recognition of qualifications. Which countries have lower standards?pic.twitter.com/6m2iMjqYNs
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People who are happy to be treated by foreign doctors should ask themselves why the other countries should invest time and money training their own staff and then have shortages of medical staff, here are not enough doctors in poor EU states even if they train people.
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Recently I was misunderstood by two different hospital consultants whose primary language wasn’t English. Both me and my O/H tried to make ourselves understood to no avail. Could have had serious consequences.
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Also the Romanian dentist doesn’t understand English. He gets nasty when you try to explain yourself. He ended up shouting at me ‘Filling £45 take it or leave it”

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