Really hard to overstate the damage the IMGwave has caused to the NHS. Have heard from, and been sent, a lot of messages like this from doctors around the country.

Foreign-trained doctors, often with poor English, are having to be handheld by junior British doctors. GPST (General Practice Specialty Training) schemes in particular have been a popular route that allow foreign doctors to get a foothold in the country as barriers to entry are relatively low. As they’re often much older than their UK counterparts, that tends to cause issues too.

Why would a Somali-run children's day care centre in Leicester employ four people when they have zero children enrolled? Behind on the accounts too. Oddly can't seem to ring them up to enrol a child either. None of the contact details work.

Interesting new LSE study on the 'ethnic wealth gap' in the UK, and changes between waves since 2012.

The report found that amongst 'the [UK-born] black African, black Caribbean, and Bangladeshi ethnic groups [...] median wealth [remained] at or near zero in all waves.' Since 2012, UK-born black Caribbean, Bangladeshi, and Pakistani ethnic groups have seen no rise in median wealth, in fact 'wealth among individuals from the Pakistani ethnic group dropped sharply'.

The story is essentially one of a constant ratcheting-up of asylum criteria, driven by NGO lobbying, court decisions, and weak politicians acquiescing.

Take, for example, asylum claims based on sexuality. Under New Labour, 98% of such claims were rejected. What happened next?

https://twitter.com/TomHCalver/status/1992713170000232531

Claimants were rejected if it was thought they could reasonably conceal their sexuality in their home country. Stonewall and other charities got v upset and put pressure on the gov't.

Theresa May 'vowed' to change this - and, with the help of a Supreme Court decision, she did.

'A row of 12 social houses has just been built opposite me. I'm feeling disheartened by how much higher their quality of lives are compared to mine. Can I get a reality check?' S106 agreements are evil. Work hard your whole life to buy that £500k new build? Enjoy having someone randomly placed beside you in an equivalent property who didn't have to pay a thing.

Non-UK trained IMG doctors in some hospitals are capturing departments, funnelling all hiring through foreign pools, while British doctors feel ostracised.

'If you're a UK grad, you're seen as an outsider ... [you're seen] as an imposter and they want nothing to do with you' Reddit mods have chosen to keep up the thread and there’s a lot of corroboration by other doctors of this going on across the country.

Average intelligence has been declining in developed countries over the past 20 years. ‘There has been a marked rise in reports of cognitive challenges’ amongst US teens

🚨 NEW: The Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, worked as a ‘complaints support manager’ and not as an economist in a bank according to a former colleague.

She resigned after being exposed ‘doing Labour council business’ under the guise of frequent doctor’s and dental appointments. Credit: @67keving

🚨NEW: Conservative front-runner Kemi Badenoch is being referred to as 'LATEnoch' by senior Tory politicians for her consistent lack of timeliness. She is often seen dishevelled, arriving well past the start time to meetings.

A 🧵on over a decade of tardiness: the LATEnoch tale Kemi's unpunctuality was first noted by Andrew Gibson, in Ashcroft's biography Blue Ambition, from his dealings with her in the late noughties.

Kemi Badenoch would regularly turn up to meetings 45 minutes late and spitefully glare at colleagues that asked her why.

A study conducted on attitudes within the UK Pakistani community towards consanguinity and the high prevalence of genetic malformations found that the majority of participants attributed 'the will of God', 'black magic' and bizarre factors to the plight.

heeoe.hee.nhs.uk/sites/default/… "[White people] just fantasise over mixed marriages"