Racist candidate to be NHS England boss wants to clear ‘foreigners’ out of the service
Dido Harding: now we find she’s a racist as well as a Tory money pit and expertise vacuum.
This is blatant kite-flying.
Dido Harding has suggested a racist employment policy for NHS England, if she gets the job as boss.
She’s probably doing this to gauge whether there are enough ignorant racists in the country to support it – and thereby support the dismantling of the National Health Service in favour of a profit-making business in which your health is a commodity that you can only afford at the right price.
She says – well, read it for yourself:
Dido Harding is vowing to end the NHS’s reliance on foreign doctors and nurses if she becomes head of the health service in England – despite Matt Hancock previously urging a ‘new Windrush generation’ to help fill jobs.
The Tory peer has made ending the ‘prevailing orthodoxy’ that staff are better sourced from abroad part of her pitch to take over from Sir Simon Stevens next month.
However, two years ago Lady Harding penned a report admitting that the NHS must ‘increase international recruitment in the short to medium term’.
My mother came to Britain in 1949 as a first-generation NHS nurse. When I hear Dido Harding saying 'end NHS reliance on foreigners', I hear what she's really saying.
— David__Osland (@David__Osland) June 20, 2021
Dido Harding wants to "end NHS reliance on foreigners."
I want an end to xenophobic dog whistling and categorically say #NoToDidoHardingForNHS
— Katy (@KatyJayne101) June 20, 2021
You see, the NHS cannot function without doctors, nurses and support staff from other nations. It never could. There aren’t enough home-grown medical staff in the UK and Harding knows it (see the last paragraph of the quote from the Mail, above).
But by omitting to mention that fact, she’s trying to fool you into believing that Johnny (and Janey) Foreigner aren’t needed and shouldn’t be wanted.
Result? If she gets her way, it’ll be the removal of foreign national employees from the NHS and the subsequent collapse of the service.
And you’ll get the blame because you’ll have supported it.
Fortunately, it seems few people do:
Around 170,000 NHS staff are of non-British nationality. During the pandemic they courageously & selflessly risked their own safety to keep us safe. They are heroes who deserve our thanks & gratitude. Imagine what they must think reading this headline https://t.co/t0wx7injeH
— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) June 20, 2021
Dido Harding is not fit to lead the NHS https://t.co/HTr0ZZPDzK I am staggered by Dido Harding’s comments on ‘foreigners’ working for the NHS. Surely they rule her out of contention?
— Richard Murphy (@RichardJMurphy) June 20, 2021
Dido Harding’s statement about removing foreign NHS workers wasn’t just a blatant dog whistle to racists, it was fact free. The likely cost of replacing foreign NHS workers £42 billion
This government is already choker full of racist idiots, we don’t need one more to run the NHS https://t.co/ipOqPxLtJL— Devutopia (@D_Raval) June 20, 2021
RT if you support the ‘foreigners’ who are an integral part of the NHS workforce, caring for our country and making homes in the UK.
We value you 💙
— Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 (@JujuliaGrace) June 20, 2021
Dido Harding can't be for real. The NHS would completely collapse without foreign doctors and nurses.
— Daniela Nadj (@DanielaNadj) June 20, 2021
Dido Harding saying she doesn’t want foreigners in the NHS has one objective – let the ones there now know they are not welcome, get them to leave and throw the NHS into crisis. This has been going on for years so this is just saying it out loud and accelerating their efforts.
— Angela M. 🇺🇦 (@angiemythen) June 20, 2021
I like this idea – praising foreign-born medical staff working within the NHS for their life-saving work:
Some of the NHS workers I'd like to thank for saving me from cancer:
The Polish surgeon who performed emergency treatment when I was brought in, screaming in pain
The Filipino nurse who held my hand for an hour when I was having a weep in the middle of the night …
— Russ Jones (@RussInCheshire) June 20, 2021
The Pakistani ward sister who led the team caring for me during my 7 weeks in hospital.
The Belgian professor of histology who identified my tumour after surgery
The Greek doctor at Christies who leads the experimental chemotherapy that prevented a relapse…
— Russ Jones (@RussInCheshire) June 20, 2021
Obviously, millions of British people work in the NHS, but the key contact points for me were almost all immigrants.
28% of NHS doctors were born overseas.
For 2 years they, and hundreds of thousands of their colleagues, risked their lives to save yours in a pandemic…
— Russ Jones (@RussInCheshire) June 20, 2021
Immigrants are 9% of the UK population, but 28% of NHS doctors.
You are 3x more likely to be treated by an immigrant than in a queue behind one
If we got rid of immigrants, services would be worse. Queues longer. Survival rates lower…
— Russ Jones (@RussInCheshire) June 20, 2021
So what is the reasoning behind the idea of an NHS employing no immigrants? Who does that help? What does it achieve?
It helps nobody. It achieves nothing. The "rationale" is simple racism.
Thank you, NHS. Thank you, immigrants.
Fuck you, racists.
There. I've said my piece.
— Russ Jones (@RussInCheshire) June 20, 2021
Of course, Russ added this…
Boris Johnson would be dead if it wasn't for #ForeignDoctors
Sorry, I'm undermining my own argument here.
— Russ Jones (@RussInCheshire) June 20, 2021
I also like this – NHS staff of foreign origin pointing out the good work that they do, in contrast to … whatever it is Harding claims to get up to:
Hey @didoharding I worked in the NHS today at the Out of hours dental emergencies clinic in Hull. I’m from India and my colleague this morning is from Ghana. Did you do anything useful today?
— Pramod Subbaraman 🦷 (@briteeth) June 20, 2021
Will a backlash stop Harding from getting the job?
Probably not…
I mean, take a look at her record (courtesy of Private Eye) and you’ll see a catalogue of disasters – none of which have stopped her from bagging increasingly important and high-paid roles, which she then trashed.
Today’s nasty stuff about getting foreigners out of the NHS is clearly designed to distract from her CV. Recent history suggests it will work. pic.twitter.com/OwuaTB6A2y
— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) June 20, 2021
It’s an outrage that Harding is doing this.
So, what are we going to do about it?
Report her for racist hate speech?
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Oh dear just another devil in disguise whot a bramer these are just hate filled people are the toerags oh we had a chance with a decent man has our leader but hay no they bring damnation down on the rest
It depends on HOW she wants to reduce reliance. If this is a long-term plan to be achieved by improving pay and conditions and providing more training places, this would be a good thing. Sadly, I don’t think it’s what she has in mind.
I don’t think that’s what she has in mind. I think she just wants to (with apologies to people of colour across the UK and the world) “clear out the darkies”. Absolutely despicable that this kind of small-minded Little England racism still exists in the UK in the 21st century. She needs to be taken in hand and given a mandatory education in why she is a racist.
Fascist tories and their little fascist dictator duck johnson do not want any nasty foreigners in little england so therefore Dido Harding is enacting the male fascist masters’ orders!
Remember these ‘foreigners’ are stealing (sic) English men’s and women’s jobs within the NHS so therefore it is not ‘racist’ to demand these migrants be removed and deported!
Racism is only racism when the fascist tories say it is! This is fascism because fascists have always demonised certain groups and now the term ‘foreigners’ is being used by fascist tories to justify their war on women and men who are not ‘little englanders!’
Racism is not the same as saying migrants must not be allowed to enter the UK – this is will be the fascist tories’ mantra. And I have no doubt many stupid women and men will claim the fascist tories are right – ‘get rid of all those nasty foreigners because little england has innumerable nurses and doctors available!
Hey duck johnson where’s the 50,000 nurses you promised?
FFS how many levels are this woman stupid on with this BS she is spouting – First, it’s sodding racist!!! Let’s get that out the way, she is trying to flag shag. Next practicality it takes what 7 years to train a doctor and 3 for a nurse? Sorry not sure and there are less than 20 medical schools in the UK. Maths don’t work there methinks…
So unless the Tory scum is going to massively invest in the NHS??? Yeah, I don’t see that EVER happening do you? So can someone please just shut her up! Like everything else this woman has failed at every job look how much she F’ed up the track and no trace for billions of wasted money because she is incompetent!
Now she wants to mess up something bigger more complex and important this is so stupid and she needs to be stopped!
Tories don’t give a monkey’s what you and I think and will carry on unopposed.creating that 1930’s dictatorship utopia that pathetic buffoons like Reece Mogg and Bojob could only have dreamed of before.
This Dido appointment,
The regression of stopping 16/17 year old’s marrying in England (David Mundell Conservative MP for Gretna rubbing his hands with glee)
That Nazi style British song the Education Department endorsed,
Prosecution of even a single protester raising his/her voice
Blatant misuse of Covid funds on political electioneering (Bojob laughed today when SNP confronted him)
Wholesale (opt-out only) NHS records for sale to anyone willing to pay
I could go on but it’s too depressing to think about it any more, project creep has become Project “Try and stop me”