We'll Keep a Sick-Bed In The Hillsides

by john of gwent

Having problems getting medical attention ?

Are your doctors not quite up to the job ?

Do you find it so inconvenient to have your care team bugger off to the mosque five times a day - leaving your continued existence in this world up in the hands of allah until the mullah says they can come back to your bedside ?

Did the shrapnel from your last suicide bomb attempt not quite do the job ? Leaving you in need of patching up a bit before you have another go ?

No problem, boyo. We at the arse end of the madness of the Welsh Assembly have just the thing for you.

Just get yourself on the next Eurostar and then find a way to have your mates carry you west of Offa's Dyke. Once here, our lovely NHS in Wales will welcome you with open arms and bottomless cheque book.

You think I jest ? Read this and weep.

Failed asylum seekers in Wales will now be given free health care - unlike their counterparts in England. The Department of Health in England is taking legal action to restrict free access to the NHS to this group. Previously, the Welsh assembly had passed regulations to introduce charging for secondary healthcare for refused asylum seekers.

Now let me say right here, right now, that I believe if you fear persecution in the country you live in, through your colour, your politics, your religion, or a dozen other things, and you jump on a boat, a plane, a train, or yes even a rubber raft in that country and that boat, plane, train or piece of shipwrecked flotsam deposits you directly on our shores you have the absolute right without fear or favour to fall at the feet of our immigration officers, to plead for protection from that persecution, and have your pleas heard without fear or favouritism. Yes we have a duty to hear your case. This is not Zimbabwe. This is not South Africa. The United Kingdom's Government signed up to an international treaty agreeing to protect people from such persecution, and we are bound by that obligation. It is an honourable one. If you disagree with that position then perhaps this is not the site you are looking for.

But I say that if your case fails to persuade our authorities then out you go.

For our resources are not limitless and the numbers of people with just cause and rightful claim are growing. And I'm picking up the bill.

And right now, I see a pathetic New Liebour do-gooder making a useless gesture that condemns all with just cause and rightful call upon the limited resources of the NHS in Wales to have their access rationed further by a tidal wave of people with no rightful access to those same facilities were they trying to get them East of the River Severn.

This is what you get for leaving New Liebour holding the reins of power.

Don't think they wouldn't do it to the residents of Crewe and Nantwich next given half a chance.

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