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Matt nails it again ...

Michael Ixer ● 2456d11 Comments

Brilliant.  From this morning's figures I think the Home Sec is expecting the cared for by themselves and just when the hospitals are going to Dubai and the Philippines and India to hire staff.  There are thousands of vacancies in the NHS.

Philippa Bond ● 2456d

Brilliant Matt - heartbreaking subject though!

Ivonne Holliday ● 2456d

Sorry but I don't get the 'humour' or relevance of this cartoon. How is an invasion by sea relevant to migrant seasonal, or care workers? Or could this cartoon be seen as a crude analogy of the U.K. being invaded by illegal migrants crossing the channel?  Not funny but certainly topical due to the current high spike in numbers of illegals using this method. Perhaps someone who finds the cartoon brilliant or hilarious could please explain to me what I am missing from it?

Sue Hammond ● 2456d

Best comment I've seen recently was that the majority of the British population would fail to get back in on this system.  Care workers are being called low skilled when they probably learn most skills through experience and not everyone has the patience and empathy for the job anyway.  Low paid and undervalued is what they are.  There are also a tremendous number of unpaid carers.

Philippa Bond ● 2456d

Hardly funny though?

Sue Hammond ● 2456d

"Hardly funny though?"Would it have been funny if it had been in the Mail?

David Ainsworth ● 2456d

Irony, to quote Ms Patel a "holistic" view of migration, just different to hers :-)

Michael Ixer ● 2456d

Those were Vikings and I wonder how many of us have Viking DNA?

Philippa Bond ● 2456d

To read this forum makes me wonder how we ever survived before 2004!?!I’m not as old as some here but I don’t think all the things this forum likes to grumble about were so much worse before the Blair mass immigration project were they?

Mike Warman ● 2456d

I just don't understand why schools in the UK don't have a model some other countries have.  I'm not sure if they still do it, but Germany used to give young teenagers hands on work experience with a view to them training in those skills.All kids who leave school need to have an apprenticeship placement at the very least, unless they can fund themselves and it should be mandatory, sorry it's not popular ….

Bunny Payne ● 2455d

Ms Hammond,One does not expect someone whose only instances of humour seem to be those derived from mocking those she disagrees with to 'get it'.Try imagining an ironic link between the great British public's long standing fear, or claim to it, of being invaded by foreigners with their other concern with or likely disappointment over the fact that the Government's immigration policy is likely to affect what could be considered to be very important to us - food production and elderly care.

John Hawkes ● 2455d