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You can thank the government for not increasing NHS wages then.
I think an interesting experiment would be to let people chose exactly where their taxes go. I think there would be major differences between the rich and the rest of the population but it would equal out somewhat as to the current distribution and people will at least be happy with the levels of funding or it would show that the government controlling it all is what we need to make it work.
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#1249 13 Apr 2020 at 9.48am | | |
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I think we need some serious changes in this country, it seems at the moment we look far too quickly abroad to fill jobs, that's not just nurses but all sorts of jobs. Obviously increasing wages is one way and consequently we'll have to pay more for our services but we also need a change in peoples mindsets, we need to get our own lazy layabouts off their arses and the rest of society should not look down at others. At the moment we are thanking the likes of our shelf fillers, delivery and dustmen. Unfortunately when this is all over the majority of people will probably slip back to their old ways and look down their noses at those type of workers 
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#1248 13 Apr 2020 at 9.00am | | |
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No we don't have 1000s of young women wanting to go into nursing. Why would they want to go into a underpaid job. I for one was very greatfull for every Spanish, Italian specialist Nurses that kept my Dad alive in 2018 and gave us an extra 6 months together. They didn't just come over here on a whim hoping to find a job they were recruited by the NHS to fill positions that they could not fill. When I worked in a care home the company actively went to Poland to recruit staff.
As for your comment about Training there are plenty of people that have been trained in the UK and then gone back to there home countries or in the case of British citizens have gone to work aboard as they can earn more money.
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#1247 13 Apr 2020 at 5.55am | | |
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The NHS has been begging for people to sign up for years now as there is a lack of nurses. You even get all your tuition fees covered, plus paid for the work you do whilst training. Not like there isn’t incentive to sign up, but there’s still a lack of interest clearly.
It’s a shame people have the mentality that foreigners have ‘stolen jobs’ even now with everything else going on. Especially when they are risking their lives too. You can’t ‘steal’ a job when it’s vacant and there is no one to fill it.
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#1246 12 Apr 2020 at 10.06pm | | |
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Hi BB
I never use the phrase 'our own' when it comes to people. Too easily slips into a them and us mentality that's easily manipulated for some of our more right wing friends... It's been hijacked for an agenda that I don't like.
That aside, I'd say it's lucky for the NHS and for every person Luis has treated, not just the famous ones.
I'm sûre there are thousands of young women - and young men too - who would like to train to become nurses and I'd hope that after this is over the whole approach to nursing as a career is made more accessible and viable for them all.
Mal
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#1245 12 Apr 2020 at 9.34pm | | |
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Hi Mal,
Lucky for whom do you think? Her or us?
It cost her home country a lot of money to train the admirable Ms. Pitarma.
Don't you think she should be serving her community there?
We have 1000s of young women who would like to become nurses.
Don't you think we should be training our own?
BB.
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#1244 12 Apr 2020 at 9.33pm | | |
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I think he was busy giving Gordon Ramsay an earful....
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#1243 12 Apr 2020 at 9.32pm | | |
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Wandle had invited them down for the weekend.
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#1242 12 Apr 2020 at 9.01pm | | |
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So Boris makes a point of thanking two specific nurses for his NHS treatment
One of them is a Portuguese nurse named Luis Pitarma. Luckily Luis was employed as a nurse here before Brexit eh...?
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#1241 12 Apr 2020 at 5.07pm | | |
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Good on the police for sending a family home and handing them a fine.Travelling from London to Devon for a fishing trip,#stay at home 
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#1240 12 Apr 2020 at 4.00pm | | |
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 He might report him to his MP
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#1239 12 Apr 2020 at 3.28pm | | |
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 don't tell wandle that 
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#1238 12 Apr 2020 at 3.06pm | | |
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#1237 12 Apr 2020 at 2.58pm | | |
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Good news, Boris is out of hospital
And off to his second home
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#1236 12 Apr 2020 at 2.38pm | | |
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Some people should hang their heads in shame with their behaviour,all I have done is stick to guidelines and help out my neighbours.I had to tell a guy at sainsburys a few weeks back to calm himself down,he was being abusive to the lady controlling the people going in and out of the store.She was just doing her job and did not deserve to be sworn at 
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