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Don’t believe Nigel Farage’s denials. He targeted me for being Jewish – and it hurt | Peter Ettedgui (www.theguardian.com)

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This is really worth reading in full if you had a single doubt about what Farage is.

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[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

oi won’t my country back from dem forrneers, innit”.

Theyre not all racist cunts. Some of them just want jobs, and this is the easiest way viable to them.

I'm not even talking unskilled jobs. Fully trained F1 and F2 doctors are unable to get jobs in the UK because careers are points-based and other countries hand out those points easier.

You might say, "well this is all smoke and mirrors - there's plenty of demand for doctors, UK and foreign, the issue is the goverment isnt funding it",

And you'd be right: increase the number of doctor placements, and there should be enough space for everyone.

But no government seems to want to do that. So in that case, if there are only limited doctor placements, they should go to doctors that were trained (with taxpayer money) in the UK.

That's not what's happening. I'm seeing so many medics leaving for Australia and Canada, despite being trained here.

I don't think people are voting Farage because he's a slippery racist billionaire serving cunt. I think he's just the closest thing to getting jobs for a lot of disenfranchised people.