Just To Put The Record Straight

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3026939/Half-Britons-Farage-HIV-Poll-finds-50-agree-immigrants-not-immediately-receive-free-treatment-arrive-UK.html

Mr Farage came in for much criticism over his HIV remarks, but so did all those who agreed with him, along with the usual remarks homophobic, racist, xenophobia, alarmist etc.

Well it would appear that it is those who criticised who are in the minority,

/// 52 per cent thought Mr Farage was ‘right to raise this issue - immigrants with serious conditions like HIV are costing the health service a large amount of money’ this compared with 37 per cent who picked: ‘Nigel Farage was just scaremongering - compared to the total cost of the NHS this is a drop in the ocean’, and 11 per cent did not know. ///

A YouGov poll

[Peter Pedant]

//I intend to visit England later in the year. If UKIP win will I need proof of my Aryan forebears ?//

luckily ( I neva thought I would say that ) I have some unreformed Dutch Boere in my family tree so I think I should be OK [ yiss ]

Having sisters who married SS officers would be better but we all cant be like Prince Philip now can we ?

[tonyav]

He isn't doing badly in my neck of the woods, I wonder why that is.
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/polls/2015/04/01/poll-if-the-general-election-was-taking-place-tomorrow-which-party-would-you-vote-for/

[New Judge]

So, reading between your lines then, jim, we have an obligation to provide free treatment to anyone with a communicable disease that steps on these shores in case they either spread it here (if they are allowed to stay) or spread it abroad (if they are sent away). Do you really think that people who have paid their dues and who are on a waiting list for treatment (perhaps in pain) would see this as fair?

[sevenOP]

"Just To Put The Record Straight"

Which still has not been done:
https://aliberallife.wordpress.com/2015/04/03/farage-and-the-hiv-lie/
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/reality-check/2015/apr/03/do-foreigners-come-to-uk-to-get-hiv-treatment
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/11514369/Revealed-Nigel-Farage-planned-Aids-comment-as-part-of-shock-and-awful-TV-debate-strategy.html

The main p.c. problem here is the lack of pro-checking.
Nonaccountability is the tolerated political norm, the mass media permitting partisan propaganda without scrutiny: welcome to the idiocracy.

[jim360]

"Do you really think that people who have paid their dues and who are on a waiting list for treatment (perhaps in pain) would see this as fair?"

I doubt they would. But as I'm constantly reminded, life isn't. Which in turn brings me to the suggestion that you stop such sick people coming in in the first place through mandatory health checks, if there's to be any realistic action on this. I don't see that it's any good standing over the sick immigrants and tutting -- and while, yes, it's a drain on our resources, I'd argue that it's a necessary expense.

[naomi24]

Jim, //yes, it's a drain on our resources, I'd argue that it's a necessary expense. //

So Farage is right, People do come here specifically for treatment on the NHS.

[anotheoldgit]

It's quite shocking that some would rather blame our own elderly for living longer as the reason for the demise of the NHS, yet see nothing wrong for these foreign 'health tourists' using up our valuable NHS resources.

[youngmafbog]

Right-on Jim.

Why dont you donate all YOUR income to the cause if you truly believ in it and not expect others to fund your right-on views.

Same goes for the others in the earlier lefty love in.