Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
I have never had that pleasure, no. Whether there will be any dentistry in much of Britain before long is a question well worth pondering. If a Romanian dentist wanted to set up here, then that would, at the very least, be better than no dentist at all.
Romania is not all that backward a place, you know. Romanians become very annoyed at the suggestion, and not without cause. Borat is not real even where Kazakhstan is concerned. And neither Romania nor Bulgaria is Kazakhstan.
Yes, precisely. Medical tourism has us going to Eastern Europe these days, so what would be more logical than for those same Romanian professionals to up-sticks and set up business here?
It was always a myth to suggest it could only be the low-paid positions that got colonised by the Poles and continentals in the last wave of EU migration.
I suspect that's why there's so much more of a consensus in general against this sort of thing now: people have cottoned on that it's their own professional and academic jobs that are stake.
And that's why they will come, but this time to drive down wages in the white collar sector as well.....
It will be what the New Right always wanted: the complete withdrawal of public services as such, with an unrestricted global market filling the void. I can hardly wait...
You've obviously never been to a Romanian dentist then?
ReplyDeleteI have never had that pleasure, no. Whether there will be any dentistry in much of Britain before long is a question well worth pondering. If a Romanian dentist wanted to set up here, then that would, at the very least, be better than no dentist at all.
ReplyDeleteRomania is not all that backward a place, you know. Romanians become very annoyed at the suggestion, and not without cause. Borat is not real even where Kazakhstan is concerned. And neither Romania nor Bulgaria is Kazakhstan.
Yes, precisely. Medical tourism has us going to Eastern Europe these days, so what would be more logical than for those same Romanian professionals to up-sticks and set up business here?
ReplyDeleteIt was always a myth to suggest it could only be the low-paid positions that got colonised by the Poles and continentals in the last wave of EU migration.
I suspect that's why there's so much more of a consensus in general against this sort of thing now: people have cottoned on that it's their own professional and academic jobs that are stake.
And that's why they will come, but this time to drive down wages in the white collar sector as well.....
It will be what the New Right always wanted: the complete withdrawal of public services as such, with an unrestricted global market filling the void. I can hardly wait...
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