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Nemo
Nemo
@iinavpov@mastodon.online  ·  activity timestamp 17 hours ago

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/feb/26/drop-in-overseas-workers-uk-hospitals-and-care-homes

Soooo, following the pretty large #Green win we've just seen, is the government going to do the decent thing, which is to march the whole of the Home Office into the sea, and do what's the standard everywhere else: give immigration to the Economy, which can at least be counted on to not try to kill the country to appease the racists?

Seriously #Labour, you only needed to be moderately not racist.

the Guardian

Drop in overseas workers is ‘car crash’ for UK hospitals and care homes, say experts

Care roles hit particularly hard by UK’s lurch to the right on migration, according to analysis of Home Office data
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Gillinger
Gillinger
@Gillinger@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 15 hours ago

@iinavpov @cstross
If all of these immigrants are leaving jobs at care homes and hospitals, that means the phrase "coming over here and taking our jobs" no longer applies. So where are they all when these jobs are now there for the taking?

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Charlie Stross
Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp 15 hours ago

@Gillinger @iinavpov The fash have been using that slogan as long as I can remember, since the 70s—it was a lie then, and it's a lie today. (Hint: immigrants *create* jobs.)

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