Well at least Nigel noted my point that we are part of The EU..

I'm jealous Dave, really bleedin' jealous. How can you be the worst person Akenaton has encountered when all three Muskets go out of our way to be the opposite of anything and everything he can or does stand for?

😂😂😂

Yes, there is transfer of labour within EU states, hence it was easier for me when it made business sense to be based in Ireland, Germany and Italy at particular times. It allowed us to offer a promotion to a quality manager in the Italy factory to our operation in The UK, which he accepted, and moving was as simple as moving from Manchester to Sheffield.

Where xenophobes fall down in their rants and lies is to assume British people are being disadvantaged in the job market for being British. These days, I know a bit more about healthcare than engineering, and it is a fact that the level of training for doctors in some Eastern European countries is not as good as many other countries, especially those that mirror the British medical school model, which includes most Commonwealth countries and to a degree, U.S. and Western European countries. But here's the thing.. You don't have to employ them if they are not up to the mark. There is a lot of twaddle doing the rounds that we have to employ doctors and nurses that wouldn't have qualified under our system. Not so. There are many Eastern European doctors at the trust where I last was involved, and one failed to be given a permanent contract at the end of the trial period. In the meantime, The Daily Ma*l was saying we couldn't sack them...

The others by the way are excellent. The best in a bad training regime overlap the worst in a good one. On the other side of the coin, the shortage in general does mean some temporary or locum posts are being filled by doctors who have restrictions on their practice until they have demonstrated competence through appraisal. That is an issue, but not one that any immigration regime could or would address.