The terrible cost of New Labour’s bankrupt immigration policy is borne not only by the indigenous population of Britain. It also weighs heavily upon some of the most needy nations in the world. Labour’s open door policy is enticing professional workers to migrate to Britain. Attracted by higher wages and easier conditions, health workers and teachers are leaving their homelands where they are needed most. And rather than invest in training our own doctors, nurses and teachers, New Labour is encouraging them.

Britain is stealing doctors and nurses from Aids-ravaged, war-torn southern Africa.

None can have failed to hear of the plight that sub-Saharan Africa now faces with Aids. Yet few may be aware that the greatest problem that it faces in dealing with this plague is not money, or lack of drugs, but a lack of health workers.

African brain drain

In February 2000, a United Nations conference opened to discuss the plundering of much-needed professionals from Africa by Western nations. The UN Economic Commission on Africa stated that this ‘brain drain’ was a major obstacle to African development. One commission analyst estimated that over 30% of Africa’s skilled labour was working overseas.

In October 2003, the World Health Organisation voiced growing concern over the poaching of doctors from the developing world. South Africa is now forced to recruit health professionals from China and Cuba - it has lost so many to Britain and other Western nations. Less wealthy African nations must do without.

The globalists push for immigration into Britain from Africa causes the source nations to suffer.









Despite agreeing to help curb this problem, the Labour government has done little to tackle it.

Labour have had plenty of time since this problem was recognised to encourage the training and recruitment of homegrown professionals. Instead, they have burdened British youngsters wishing to go to university with unbearable levels of debt. And still, they try to plug the holes in Britain’s ailing public services by recruiting from the third world.

• In 2001, the UK faced a barrage of criticism from southern Africa for pilfering teachers.
• During 2002, some 2114 South African nurses came to Britain looking for work and neighbouring Botswana lost 120 of its nurses to the UK.
• From 2002 to 2003, 13,000 non-EU foreign nurses registered to work in the UK. 3,472 of these came from the developing world.
• By October 2003, around 7000 South African doctors were on the permanent register of the UK General Medical Council.

Southern African countries have suffered severe shortages of skilled personal for a number of years, especially in the medical and teaching professions. The situation continues to get worse.

"Health tourism"

The shortages experienced by these countries in professional personnel holds back their development. The lack of health and education services has a knock-on effect leading to a weakening of the general infrastructure. All this cannot help but promote further migration to Britain of other sections of the third world population as their needs cease to be met at home. At the very least, it acts as an impetus for ‘health tourism.’ It forces people to come to Britain for treatment that Africa’s depleted health services cannot offer.

The arrival in the NHS of so many immigrant workers prepared to accept lower levels of pay leads to British workers leaving the service as wages are driven down. Around one third of British nurses are currently set to leave the service because of low pay and poor conditions. No doubt New Labour plans to fill the resulting vacancies with yet more health workers stolen from the third world.

The effects of BNP policies

The skilled people of the developing world need to be encouraged to make their own homelands better places rather than seeking an easier life in the UK. The BNP’s planned system of voluntary resettlement with generous financial incentives will enable these doctors, nurses and teachers to return home, to where they are needed most. Able to retain their staff, the services in these countries will be better able to answer the needs of their own citizens.

It is often argued that without immigrants the NHS would collapse, but rarely acknowledged that immigration adds to the pressure of numbers wishing to use the NHS and other services. The more immigration - the more services need to expand if they are to meet the needs of the increasing number of users. The BNP call for an immediate halt to further immigration, voluntary resettlement of those already here, and the immediate deportation of all criminal and illegal immigrants, will vastly reduce this stress on the system and reduce the need for so many foreign workers.

The BNP policy of addressing the real reason for recruitment and retention difficulties in the NHS – low pay and poor conditions – will help to keep, and bring new and returning, British health workers and medical staff within the service. The restoration of discipline and authority in the classroom will attack the main issue that has driven many healthcare teachers from the profession.

Our own people must come first

If our nation does not have enough doctors, nurses, teachers and indeed even plumbers and bricklayers, it is the education system that is to blame and the problem should be dealt with through education, not immigration. The BNP pledge to end to ‘trendy’ teaching methods and politically correct indoctrination that have led to this shortage of skilled personal, and concentration upon acquiring real skills, will ensure that the education system in Britain enables our own young people to fill the employment needs of this nation.