Letters to Editors
Letters to Editors
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Below are a selection of some of the letters our members have recently sent to editors:
Dear Editor,
When the NHS was founded in 1948, Commonwealth and other migrants answered the call to help establish the nascent service.
So, skilled, caring people journeyed to ‘Great’ Britain to practise their professions/vocations, but to their shock, were subject to racist abuse. (See Dr. Jak Beula’s anthology ‘Nursing A Nation’ for comprehensive first-hand accounts of foreign professionals’ contribution to the NHS and the challenges they faced.)
Fast forward to 2025, where, thanks to increasingly hostile immigration policies and the rise of far-right sentiments (à la schoolboy days Farage), many migrant NHS workers have had enough and now are, frankly, sick of it (pun intended), so feel compelled to seek work opportunities on other shores.Imagine trying to help the sick, only to be chastised for the colour of your skin or where you have come from! Foreign medical professionals don’t need to imagine as they live this reality on a daily basis. (Side note: migrants comprise only a tiny minority of management positions within the NHS, which must mean it is run as a beacon of productivity and efficiency. Oh, wait...)
Oi, oi Britain! Chase away the migrants without whom you would not have a viable health service and be left with a nation that is sick.
Some might argue that that is already (and has always been) the case.
Dear Editor,
Migrants are men, women and children who leave their homes, willingly or unwillingly, for various reasons. They do not seek charity, but opportunity, respect and a chance to rebuild their lives and live with dignity.
Migrants contribute to the UK economy by filling labour shortages or starting businesses and often pay more in taxes than they receive in benefits. They also contribute significantly to the financial services industry, helping make London the second largest financial centre in the world.
About 10.7 million people are foreign born, with migration accounting for roughly 16 per cent of the UK population.
Migration is a normal and perpetual social process, and has been a primary force in defining our shared history.
Today we face huge challenges around the changing political landscape that threatens and undermines multicultural and social cohesion that makes Britain GREAT.
Dear Editor,
The Labour Party is worried about faring badly in the local government elections in May and losing the next general election. Its solution? Punishing refugees who are legally settled in the UK. Will such an unjust, immoral policy work or will it empower racist parties and groups? Labour’s policy of doubling the time a migrant must live in the UK (from 10 years to 20 years) before they can settle permanently is unfair, unjust and arbitrary. It puts them at risk of deportation for years to come. Voters never voted for such an unfair policy: it was not mentioned before the 2024 election or in a subsequent White Paper on immigration. Refugees had no choice other than to escape wars or persecution, opting for a dangerous journey to safety rather than death or torture in their homeland. If such policies are to be implemented they should take effect from the date of enforcement and must not be applied retroactively to those already living in the UK.Unfair rules now or in future mean that refugees would be unable to feel safe and secure or to have a sense of belonging, and so would be barred from integrating into British society.