Donate SIGN UP

Was Nigel Farage Right In Being Concerned Over Foreigners With Hiv Being Treated Free Of Charge On Our Nhs?

Avatar Image
anotheoldgit | 10:19 Fri 03rd Apr 2015 | News
49 Answers
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/03/nigel-farage-hiv-claim-criticised

/// The Ukip leader has previously talked about “HIV tourism” in his latest book, The Purple Revolution, claiming that the Terrence Higgins Trust lobbied Cameron’s wife Samantha in order to secure treatment for “any foreigner with HIV courtesy of the British taxpayer”. ///

Gravatar

Answers

41 to 49 of 49rss feed

First Previous 1 2 3

Avatar Image
“I'm disappointed that you too have been taken in by Farage's sleight of hand.” I’ve not been taken in at all, sp. In fact, I've been taken in to a far lesser degree than those who blindly believe that the only way in which the UK can prosper is to allow hundreds of thousands of people annually to arrive and settle here. As I said in my previous post, I don’t...
13:15 Fri 03rd Apr 2015
New Judge

If Nigel Farage wants to discuss health tourism, then he should base his argument on meaningful numbers. We have absolutely no way of determining how many of those he refers to are log-standing, tax-paying British citizens, who happen to be born abroad, and how many are simply screwing the system.

Not everyone has your intelligence, and my concern is that many people will conflate 'not born in the U.K.' with 'short term migrant'.

These are not synonyms.
-- answer removed --
I understand your concern, sp.

The short answer is for the government of the day to put a stop to health tourism (and indeed benefit tourism) by whatever means necessary. It is not beyond the wit of man to refuse to provide free treatment to people not entitled to it.I'm not talking about leaving a tourist who breaks his leg lying in the gutter until he produces a credit card or an insurance policy. Of course emergency treatment must be excepted. I'm talking about refusing to treat people who pitch up in the UK with pre-existing conditions (including pregnancy) whose sole aim is to be treated on the NHS before scuttling off back home or, worse still, remaining here for ongoing attention. Other countries manage it perfectly well. The fact is there is no political will to do so in the UK and the reason for that is that governments (of any persuasion) are absolutely terrified of appearing to be “nasty” when in fact they should be more terrified of upsetting the settled population already here and entitled to be so. That is what they are doing when they allow scarce resources to be abused by foreigners.

If they did that there would be no need for Mr Farage and his mates to raise these issues at all (with or without distortion and exaggeration) and parties like UKIP would have no purpose. But instead the genuine concerns of the electorate have been (and continue to be) brushed aside driving otherwise moderate voters to the extremes.
NJ

I agree with your points. I just wish Nigel was more careful with his wording.
N.J. Yup!
Retrochic

He said it on Thursday in front of millions:

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/03/nigel-farage-hiv-claim-criticised

Lumping immigrants who have been here for decades with 'health tourists'.
Wrong thread!
"No ! He was just playing his normal game of sounding the alarm, with a mixture of xenophobia and downright racism" - " But the kind of people that he is attracting are taken in, hook, line and sinker, due to their own inability to think clearly"

These comments are unbelievable and irresponsible but typical of the army of fake anti-racist who really don't have any clue what racism really is. Again, if this is a case of 'downright racism', will we see Mr Farage prosecuted or have you got it all wrong yet again.
After been in pain and sorrow for 2years and 11months, Dr Molemen was able to restore my life back with his herbal medicine, my good friends i have been Hiv positive for 2years and everyday of my life i cry to God as i was a mother of 2 cute kids who were looking up to me, I was taking my medication from the hospital, I also did some prayers to God that he should do some miracle in my life, my friends this is a life touching story i am sharing with you all on net today, Few Months ago i was browsing on net when i found some good testimonials about Dr Molemen Herbs, and someone recommended that he has cured Hiv by Dr Molemen, i always had faith that God could use someone to heal me, i contacted Dr Molemen and i told him concerning my problem he told me not to worry that with God all things are possible and also that he was going to prepare for me some herbal herbs which i am to take and he is going to send the medicine to me, well after all the guidance and medication from Dr Molemen he advice that i go for check again to see my status result and he assured me of good result, i was afraid at this point cause i never wanted someone to tell me again that i am positive, after 2days i went to the Hospital for check up and they said the result was to come out by Friday, at 11:00am on Friday the hospital Doctor called me and told me that the result was out and i am Negative, i was shocked and could not believe it, i immediately called Dr Molemen and told him about the good news he told me to rejoice and make sure i share my testimony with my friends and that is why i am doing this right now, friends you can contact Dr Molemen today on ( [email protected] or ( [email protected]) or call him on +2347036013351, friends Dr Molemen can help you solve any problem contact him now.

41 to 49 of 49rss feed

First Previous 1 2 3

Do you know the answer?

Was Nigel Farage Right In Being Concerned Over Foreigners With Hiv Being Treated Free Of Charge On Our Nhs?

Answer Question >>

Related Questions

Sorry, we can't find any related questions. Try using the search bar at the top of the page to search for some keywords, or choose a topic and submit your own question.