@RupertLowe10 In Spain if you don’t speak Spanish and you’ve a medical appointment you have to arrange for your own translator and pay.
Why are the NHS wasting our money paying for others who don’t speak English?
A senior whistleblower, who has spent decades in the NHS, has told me how foreign patients who refuse to speak English often get priority from certain NHS trusts.
Why?
Because the translators are incredibly expensive, so management speed up the patient through the queue.
This may reduce cost, but it is utterly scandalous.
There is a simple solution.
Scrap ALL foreign language translation/interpretation costs in the NHS.
If you live in England, you speak English.
Not complicated.
@afneil Never even showed signs of growth, why would it when there's no reason for growth. None.
Vast majority have their tin hats on, sitting on their hands, waiting.
I know a UK multi property owner who has switched all his properties to short term holiday lets and air B&Bs. Taking out of the market a sustantial number of long term lets...Good plan from you and Milliband...
@SteveReedMP Renting = An agreement between the landlord & tenant.
Employment = An agreement between employee & employer.
That's it.
Government interfering never helps as then no one cares.
Milliband floundering how on earth did he get anywhere near government an absolute failure..never done a days work in his life and has no clue of the damage he is doing to the economy.. #trevorphillips
Just watched on BBC news the plight of a woman with three children moving from Hotel to Hotel and finally to a flat. Not once was a father mentioned or involved ..She keeps having Children despite her circumstances.. I was surprised at her attitude that she was entitled to a home
Dreadful new staging James Cleverly will be going home with a stiff neck... #PoliticsLive
The good thing is that the guests cannot keep looking at their notes but its not a comfortable view..bring back the old format or lose viewers...!!
Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey is boycotting the state banquet tonight to send a message to the US President over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
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For the past few hours Labour MPs have been voting to protect your rights at work and stop the Tories and Reform dragging us into a race to the bottom.
If you do a fair days work you deserve fair treatment. It's not radical, it's just the right thing to do.
We're in the midst of a long night of voting - but it's all worth it as we deliver the biggest upgrade to our rights at work in a generation.
A landmark moment for hard-working people and families who deserve security.
I voted last night for the biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a generation.
Our members campaigned for it.
The British public voted for it.
Today, this Labour government is one step closer to delivering it.
Just seen an interview on Sky News with Labour MP David Pinto- Duschinsky…what an absolute buffoon….Repeating parrot fashion the party mantras Focused on this Focused on that Clear about this Clear about that, fixing the foundations bla-bla-bla no empathy with the electorate…