Gli incidenti razzisti contro gli infermieri del Regno Unito aumentano del 55%

I’ll never forget the day my wife came home upset that a patient had called her a ‘Stupid Paki’ and she was just… expected to accept that… and the patient was allowed to say it with no consequences.

The perk of having a monopoly healthcare system is that you hold the cards. Patients who racially abuse staff should either be kicked out (and whatever happens medically happens) or billed the full value of their medical treatment, with 30 days to pay, where failing to do so sees benefit cuts and assets taken. Would sort this crisis out very quickly.

We could clean house of these racists, using the might of the state, instead we make staff suffer.

Of course they will, when a racist Reform MP can say it upsets her that “adverts are full of black people” and not have to immediately resign in disgrace. Thugs and racists feel empowered to be racist as well.

Look at what the cowardice of people in power who will not directly challenge Racist Reform delivers to the country. Division, hate, and cruelty.

It is just as much the fault of those who will not hold Reform to account as it is those fascists themselves.

My father is currently in hospital, and I’ll be going to visit him later today.

The staff are generally great and I have no qualms over their medical competence, but of about eight nurses I now know by sight, I think only one of them is a native speaker of English. Several of the others do not speak English well enough for me to have an important conversation with them that I want to have. I’ve tried. They were confused. Several of them do, but they’re not always around. I’ve also had this experience recently with police officers and officials at a local council facility.

Now, let’s not get all excited about racism, because at least some of these people are – I would guess – Polish, or at least from eastern Europe, and are visually indistinguishable from people born and brought up in the UK. This is a concern about language ability, not anyone’s family background. My first girlfriend was Punjabi, so let’s get over that one.

The problem is that I suspect I’ll be decried for some sort of thought crime for raising this issue, and I wonder how much of that 55% is actually about language ability, not race. Do we know what the criteria were?