My college roommate is a Salvadoran-American who has lived in Deal, Kent with her (pasty-white) British husband for 20 years. She’s a fairly brown person, and immigrated to the U.S. at 11 and now speaks with a kind of bizarre Salvadoran/Long Island/British accent. (And her English is, of course, perfectly fine; she also speaks French and Italian.)
In Deal, everyone knows her, and it’s fine. If she goes to Dover without her husband, everyone assumes she’s an asylum seeker and is nasty to her. But that’s been the case as long as she’s lived there, not just in the aftermath of Brexit. I’ve visited her there several times, and it’s a pretty pasty-white place. I literally don’t recall ever seeing another person of color where she lives.
That assumes there are enough people entering medical school right now, with the right attitude, knowledge, interests… to substitute all those foreign doctors and nurses.
What professions are supposed to lose an equivalent amount of students, and where are the medical professors coming from? Boris Johnson’s left armpit? Are IT folk and business consultants also going to be replaced in the minimum time required for graduation, and in that case again where are the people coming from?
Right central Gov just plucked a policy out of its ares without extensive consultation and analysis.
Fwiw, over half a million students a year enter higher education; 1,500 more places in that ebb and flow is literally nothing once the infrastructure is in place
The issue isn’t so much university medical schools, though numbers there are fairly tightly controlled, as the post-university training jobs in hospitals.
So was the announcement that the extra (post-university) training jobs in hospitals would be funded within the existing NHS budget. As indeed, 7-day working is supposed to be.So the existing funding is suddenly to pay for an extra 40% of staff time for 7-day working, and an additional however many training placements.
And the RAF is shortly to be re-equipped with several squadrons of Gloucester Old Spots.
To what extent are course fees subsidised for medical students - fwiw, I see part of the deal is they agree to work in the NHS for 4 years post qualification, I don’t know on what salary level.
You must have a sense of where more medical students will come from in a society that - here’s the clue - has historically not trained enough doctors: students who have wanted to train have been excluded by greater competition resulting from a low number of training places.
I have no idea what infrastructure you are referring to - be specific, there are over 100 uni’s and uni colleges in England alone. If your maths aren’t good that would be 15 students per year per university institution.
Hmmm, I think there is a certain amount of searching for a self fulfilling effect, report on the racist incidents and see if raising the profile of racism brings about a few more.
Some stories are only reported because its fashionable in the media, I remember that all dogs were Rottweiler’s whenever there was a story of a dog attack - then they magically turned into pit bulls, then into pit bull types - until it turned out that that dog attacks were pretty much similar to previously and cut right across all breeds, including chihuahaus.
I also remember the story of a little know recreation among teen druggies in Glasgow, this made glue sniffing much more widely known, and what a surprise to find that the nasty habit then spread nationwide - it was almost as if the Sunday filthies were trying to sell glue sniffing as a hobby to the masses.
I’ve seen reports that there was not going to be a shortage of salt, which then caused a wave of panic buying - thus fulfilling the requirements of the self fulfilling publicity effect.
The Brexit vote came as a huge shock, and now there seems to be a wave of self flagellation over it, where we seem to be accusing ourselves of being racist, and of course we have to justify that self accusation, or at least our media does.
Truth is, racism in the UK is an absolute tiny fraction of what I have seen and experienced in the past, you just do not hear of Pakki Bashing or Wog hunting like you did in the 1970’s.
Yes there are incidents, and the total might seem like a significant number, but against literally tens to hundred of million social interactions across the country every day, its really not a lot at all.
OK don’t take it for granted but lets get a sense of proportion, we are a far better society than the panic stricken self flagellators would have you believe.