Every time this MP speaks on healthcare, it’s the same pattern- blame immigrants!
So let’s start with the basics.
1. No foreign nurse “barely speaking English” can work in the NHS. To even begin the process, you must pass IELTS/OET with some of the highest language standards in the world, sit the UK’s own CBT exam, verify your licence from your home country, and still pass the OSCE after arrival.
These are your rules and we meet them.
If after all that you still think immigrants “can’t speak English,” then the issue is not competence, it’s the bias in your mind.
Raise the requirement to IELTS 8.5 if you like; people will still meet it, and you still won’t consider them “good enough” because the problem is not the score, it’s your perception.
2. You called foreign staff “potentially unqualified and incapable.” Based on what?
Where is the data?
Immigrants make up a massive percentage of the NHS workforce. If we were “incapable,” the outcomes, mortality rates, and safety records would show it but they don’t.
What you have is not a fact, it's just a convenient political narrative.
3. You asked why the UK “relies on foreign labour,” The answer is simple - it is cheap labour.
Every visa category requires a minimum salary of £ 41,000, except for the Health and Care visa, which is set at around £25k.
For a registered professional with people’s lives in their hands, in this economy, that is exploitation, not generosity.
British doctors are striking.
British nurses are leaving.
British student midwives are graduating into unemployment. And instead of addressing poor pay, unsafe staffing, and a system everyone is running away from, you turn immigrants into the scapegoats.
4. You also speak as if UK-trained staff are automatically superior. Let’s be honest. Even the three- or four-year nursing route or UK two-year fast-track nursing programmes, nurse associate routes, and the watered-down training pathways cannot be compared to the depth, rigour, and technical foundation of Nigerian nursing education.
I can only speak for Nigeria because that’s the system I trained in. Five years of university-level nursing science, one year of internship, and one year of national service. Strong anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, community health, and clinical practice. Nigerians go through hell and high water to qualify.
To have someone call such people “unqualified” is absolute nonsense!
And this is exactly why your rhetoric is dangerous. You refuse to acknowledge how much immigrant nurses actually contribute. You refuse to admit the NHS would collapse without them.
You refuse to face the fact that the real problem is your government starving the system of funding, good pay, and proper workforce planning.
Instead, you attack the very people keeping your health service alive.
The real issues are unsafe staffing, chronically underfunded hospitals, pay that cannot match the cost of living, outdated workforce planning, and policies that make healthcare unattractive to the very British workers you claim are being pushed aside.
But instead of addressing any of that, you always attack the people who keep the system running.
And yes, honourable MP, calling this out is addressing racism. When you imply an entire group of people is inherently less competent or less capable despite passing the exact standards your own institutions created, that is prejudice.
If you wanted a conversation about improving standards, we could have one. But this generalised, sweeping condemnation of foreign staff is not healthcare reform, it’s political theatre. Stop the theatrics please.
Immigrants didn’t break the NHS.
We are the reason it’s still standing.
@BBCNews@SkyNews kindly help me inform your MP in case he does not see this.
Thank you.
My primary fear in all of this is that this thing too would give birth and transmit her stupidity to those ones and those ones too will keep up the stupidity lineage, then those ones will now mingle with our children online.
God forbid bad thing!
I said IF THE BOY WERE TO BE DARK IN COMPLEXION NOBODY WILL SAY ANYTHING AND DNA SHOULD BE DONE .
Now this is it
The way genetics works is actually beyond anyone understanding and that’s the reason for our peculiarities.
The baby boy in question is light skinned compared to to the mom or the dad hence the reason why people were saying different things and I said that people will not say such a thing if the boy were to be dark skinned then I went further to say that DNA should be done
Reason is that we human being reaction to what we hear and see and I’m sure the husband must have seen all these so the woman should opt for DNA test so as to justify herself from her husband regardless of what anyone might say here .
This is just the basis of my tweet .
I am not saying that the boy is a bastard or the mother is a whore GODFORBID but I talk about the dna so that no one or any family will start behaving somehow or question her about the boy because she would have had a tangible result to back her up .
I am sorry for making you feel so bad .i have nothing against you and nothing against your home but i just felt it’s fine to have it done not for people on twitter but just for you to earn more trust and respect from your man because there are foolish people that might be telling him things .
I don’t know you so I can’t wish you bad,I have seen cases here where little things like this destroy relationships hence the reason why I said you should get it done and I am seriously sorry for my comment @lazymom_b
This language exposes brute force thinking and zero respect for Nigerian sovereignty. Threatening to send foreign troops into a sovereign African nation is colonial behavior dressed as moral outrage. Nigeria is not a battlefield for American ego politics or a stage for religious crusade rhetoric. Muslims and Christians die from the same violence. Turning our pain into a campaign performance is dishonest and dangerous. If the goal was stability he would support Nigerian institutions, intelligence cooperation, and regional strategy. Instead he threatens invasion and tries to divide Nigerians along religion.
It is reckless. And it is exploitation of African lives for political theater in the West. Because underneath the noise is the same old agenda: muscle your way into Nigeria, posture as a savior, and gain leverage over a country rich in oil, gas, minerals, and strategic influence. This is not about faith or humanity. It is about power and resources.
The only thing he protects is his applause meter back home and his Israeli master.
This is wrong, rude and disrespectful on all fronts. Nigeria is a sovereign state, and you cannot be issuing orders or directives like to another country like they are one of your colonies.
With this statement, you’d think that the US was the most Christian or righteous nation!
To the Government of Nigeria & @officialABAT:
President Trump has provided forewarning if you do not correct the current state of inaction to stop the killing of our brothers and sisters in Christ in your country. The days of the US looking the other way are over - it will never happen on @POTUS’ watch.
I urge you to cooperate with us in preventing this atrocity that worsens everyday. We want your people to live in peace - all of them, especially Christians.
The President has been clear. I would not test his resolve. Many have tried and all have failed.
We will not allow the gates of hell to prevail against the faithful.
Ignore the money part. You can already perceive the average man’s attitude toward a lawyer’s value from the tweet: “Prepare document.”
But one thing we should be thankful for is that those who have built legitimate businesses worth a billion naira rarely speak about lawyers’ work in this dismissive way. Many of them understand, often from experience, how essential a lawyer’s contribution is to what they’ve built.
Yes, there’s always room to negotiate fees, but never from a place of “what’s the big deal in the work?” That is what I have been seeing around.
While measures are being put in place to address this issue, I hope that, as a lawyer, you work well enough that your name never features in such conversations for too long, in practical terms.
There are lawyers, and not just those in big firms, who reject briefs at the slightest turn-off. I’m talking about sole practitioners who have worked hard enough to set a clear value on their work and refuse to compromise.
It’s the same profession where some lawyers charge ₦500 million to ₦1 billion for a case, and may not even communicate with a client until payment is made.
In 2010, someone bought 40% of Nigeria’s oldest airline for ₦1.
Not ₦1 million. Not ₦1 billion. Just one naira.
The buyer? The Ibru family.
The seller?
If only you’d read a little bit about the subject, you’d have understood the exclusivity of PPD to post-natal women. PPD is not just “sadness” or “exhaustion”. It is inherently biological, hormone-related.
But now, you have caused further misinformation. Really not fair, ma’am
You see this postpartum depression, men too go through it but we are not ready for that conversation.
When a woman gives birth, both the women and her responsible MAN go through postpartum depression but over the years, no one see the men's side.
While you are catering for the woman that gave birth, be caring enough to ask the man how he's feeling. He put on smiling face and hides in his shell cause once he shows how he feels, he will be questioned if he's not a man.
While we show much concern for women who suffers this disorder, let's as well create room for the men and let them know they matters too.
Stop trying to mute men when they crying out, find a solution for them on how to deal with it not judging them.