It’s time the Left got used to the idea of tighter controls on immigration as it’s what the UK yearns for
MOST ordinary people will be baffled by the liberal Left’s hysterical rage over the leaked post-Brexit immigration plan.
Put aside that it is a draft and not yet Government policy.
It represents only the mildest taste of the controls the Leave majority voted for and more than half of Remain voters ALSO now back.
That hasn’t stopped out-of-touch politicians and journalists branding the slightest tweak to free movement “mean and cynical” — and Brussels predictably blowing a gasket.
In reality almost nothing would change for two years from us leaving in 2019, except EU citizens having to show a passport at our border, as millions of Brits did returning home from their holidays around the world this summer.
Sensible, tighter controls mainly on unskilled migrants would follow after a Brexit transition of up to three years.
During that period it is vital, as Theresa May rightly says, for firms to stop griping about losing cheap foreign labour and train up Brits instead.
The Left hates the idea of prioritising our own workers — but it is what all major countries do outside the EU.
Time they got used to it.
Reality for TV
WE welcome any BBC pay review which slashes the total bill along with the most obscene salaries.
We fully back equal pay for women there too.
But presumably female stars hope to achieve that solely by seeing their six-figure wages multiplied to the stratospheric levels of male colleagues.
Instead, there’s a simple way to do it and get vastly greater value for licence-payers who are forced to fund the gravy train: cut the pay of all the male millionaires by 50 to 70 per cent.
If those ageing newsreaders, radio DJs and part-time presenters of must-miss shows reckon they can do better in the commercial sector, good luck to them.
Reality has to set in at the Beeb.
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NHS leeches
IMAGINE how many nurses could be hired or patients treated with the £1.6billion the NHS pays out in compensation every year.
This scandalous sum is dramatically inflated by ambulance-chasing lawyers charging the taxpayer exorbitant fees often way beyond what their clients win.
Some hospitals actually enable them to drum up claims on their premises.
The compo bill has quadrupled in a decade.
Its fastest-rising component . . . legal costs, up from £77million to nearly half a BILLION.
Expensive mistakes will always be made in any vast health system, but Jeremy Hunt’s long-term campaign to cut them has never looked more urgent.
Even so, it is long past time for a cap on lawyers’ avaricious fees and for the health service to stop encouraging them.
These bloodsuckers are fleecing the NHS