Northern Ireland’s nursing shortage is real. The RCN says there are 1,875 nursing vacancies in the HSC, and Belfast openly recruits overseas medical and nursing staff because the health system needs them.
If your issue is cheap labor, blame the people who exploit migrant workers to cover staffing failures instead of investing in local workers, students, wages, training, and staffing.
The immigrant nurse didn’t create that system. She’s just trying to survive in it while helping keep your hospitals running.
@bartm0ss_@EO_Halloran@TheLaurenChen Belfast has a nursing shortage and actively recruits overseas nurses. Calling them “replacements” while they’re caring for your sick is disgusting.
@JGarubo@HydroStarmie@harryjsisson Jesus literally says caring for the hungry, sick, poor, stranger, and imprisoned is caring for Him. That is Matthew 25. This is not even debatable.
This hasn’t gone viral the way it should.
Jamie Corry, an Irish lad from east Belfast, has lost his home of 13 years after masked rioters set fire to cars outside and it engulfed his house in last night’s violent chaos.
He stood right there and begged one of them:
“This is my house. This is my house.”
They didn’t care.
They burned it anyway.
“They’ve done it to one of their own.”
These racist, uneducated thugs and street urchins destroy everything in their path. They don’t care who gets hurt: locals, families, their own community. Just mindless arsonists ruining innocent lives with no excuse.
EVERYONE:
This young woman, who lives in Belfast, really wants her truth to be heard. Please take the time to listen to her very wise & powerful speech about what is ‘really’ going on, despite what some parties & people are portraying. Please share after so her message gets out.
Jesus sat with the poor, the sick, and the rejected. The fact that your first instinct was to use poverty as an insult says everything.
You can claim Christ all you want, but mocking the people He centered is a pretty loud confession that you’re not actually following Him, little man. God bless you though. That cross is in your name is doing a lot of cosmetic work 😂
@JGarubo@harryjsisson “Devout Christian” in the bio while saying the exploited poor don’t matter is crazy work. I can’t wait to see you in burn in hell brother. I’ll be the guy by the fire asking how you managed to miss the entire red letter part of the Bible.
“Advanced humanity” is a nice phrase, but humanity includes the people at the bottom of the supply chain too.
Do the miners digging cobalt, the communities displaced for extraction, or the workers exposed to abusive supply chains feel the advancement? Or do they just get the suffering while billionaires get called visionaries?
Brother, you’re going to be waiting a while, because I never mentioned Ireland.
The UK is the sovereign state being referenced, no? Benny framed his tweet around a “UK caller,” the video headline said protests were happening “across the UK,” and Belfast is in Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK. I responded to the framing in the post.
I’m not the overly emotional one here 😂 You filled in the blank with Ireland, argued with yourself, then started spamming ad homs like that was going to move me.
God bless your heart. Stay curious, little fella.
No. Violent crimes should be punished under the law. Full stop.
But my claim that migration has causes is not the same thing as saying violent crime is justified by historical context. That is a strawman.
If the West is supposed to represent law, order, and civility, then mob violence against unrelated families because of one suspect’s alleged crime is a terrible example of those values.
A civilized legal system investigates, charges, and punishes the person responsible through due process. It does not use one criminal case as permission for vigilantes to treat every migrant like an invading army.
That is the difference between justice and collective punishment.
Crime is now being viewed through an entirely racialised lens – but only when the perpetrators aren't white.
When Chas Corrigan stabbed a Saudi student to death, or Paul Doyle mowed down Liverpool fans, white people didn't have to fear being a target of collective retaliation.
Mehdi Hasan on the Belfast attack,
"As far as we know this person was here legally as someone who was approved by the then Conservative government"
"He's from Sudan. Most people would agree people fleeing from Sudan are genuine refugees"
"Whatever your politics we can agree there is a genocide going on in Sudan"
"That doesn't excuse the horrific crime that he committed, obviously"
"But the idea that we suddenly reduce this to illegal immigration"
"And Elon Musk pushing this is absurd, because Musk was an immigrant to the Unites States"
"His own brother claimed that they were both illegal immigrants at one point"
"People exploiting this for political gain.. Making everything about immigration.. Like the murder of Henry Nowak"
"The person who killed Henry Nowak was born in Britain. His father was born in Britain. But that's been made an immigration story as well"
You’re so close to seeing it.
I’m not pro mass migration. Mass migration is usually what happens after something has already failed: war, poverty, extraction, exploitation, bad policy, labor abuse, or instability.
The trick is blaming the people desperate enough to move instead of the people who helped create the conditions that made staying impossible.
That is how power protects itself. Native workers and immigrant workers get pushed into conflict while landlords, corporations, politicians, and war profiteers keep benefiting from the mess.
You are mad at the smoke while defending the people who lit the fire.