Jen Dodds: Why UKIP is not a Deaf-friendly party (BSL)

Good post.

Added to that, if you hadnt registered to vote, then you don’t have any right to a voice. Protest vote, spoil your paper (if you think no parties are worthy of your vote), whatever, as long as you’re registered!

Tim, I dont think the Tories care much about Deaf or disabled either.

Martin, that doesn’t say a lot..?

Andrew, if I answered your question, we’d go way off topic… 😉

This article displays lies we face from the elite class pro-lib/con/lab jibe as I have read all of the above from other party supporters, none of what they state are true we do not need a UN res on human rights when we will have a British bill of rights that already will have anti-discrimination laws etc. we already have the DDA that ensures that non one with disabilities can be mistreated that already takes into consideration the Human Rights Charter on disabled people, we also have the equalities act on disabilities that enshrines the principles of Human Rights, UKIP are not anti-immigration but UKIP want to limit net migration not stop migration altogether, in countries like South Africa and Australia etc. if you want to live in these countries you already need a work visa and a residential permit why is that wrong that we want the same for the UK, the comments the people made are their own opinions and not representative of UKIP and UKIP as a party did not say they agreed on those views as an official position proves that they are using their freedom of speech as individuals, this also demonstrations that UKIP are ran by ordinary people and not politicians.

The person’s last comment

“Our NHS depends on immigration, and has done since it was set up, especially as some people trained here take up the option of working abroad.”

UKIP stated they want foreign workers who are trained doctors and nurses keep the NHS free at the point of delivery

– £3bn more invested in to NHS directed to frontline services this is false information I am reading on this blog concerning our NHS

UKIP stated will provide 20,000 new nurses, 3000 midwives and 8,000 GPs. UKIP will also invest in training, in equipment, in research. Now I don’t know about you, but I think that’s a much better way to spend our money than giving it over to the extortionate, out of touch, ‘members only’ EU club whose own financial profligacy is so out of touch that it hadn’t even had its own accounts signed off for the last nineteen years.

UKIP will invest funds into training more GPs, and encourage those who have left the profession to come back into work. UKIP is particularly keen to encourage the 40% of women GPs who leave the profession before the age of 40, back into the surgery. We will do this by allowing women to take time out from their five-year free tuition fee qualifying period to have families if they wish, and by not charging either women or men for their own re-training on returning to the profession.

To cut GP waiting times UKIP will also free GPs from the burden of unnecessary data collection, target chasing, revalidation and appraisal work that actively prevents them from engaging with patients.

These measures will ensure GPs can meet UKIP’s requirements to open surgeries at least one night a week and one weekend a month in order to meet demand.

There is also one area, that still isn’t spoken about enough, probably because the sufferers feel too ill and too vulnerable to make their voices heard when they are not getting what they need from the NHS. That is mental health.

UKIP recognises that the health of our nation is not just about physical health, but about our mental wellbeing too.

UKIP will:

• Increase funding for mental health services to improve and speed up access to treatment for both adults and children as part of our £3 billion injection into the NHS.

• Ensure there is capacity for all pregnant women and mothers of children under the age of 12 months to have access to specialist mental health treatment.

• Make sure clinicians take a ‘whole person’ approach to physical and mental health, signposting patients diagnosed with debilitating long-term conditions to local mental health services, and ensuring those diagnosed with a mental illness are given support.

And then, of course, there is the huge issue of dementia. Dementia is the biggest killer of women over the age of 55 and the fifth biggest killer of men, but research into the condition is woefully underfunded. With an ever ageing population, and more people than ever concerned about the effects of dementia, UKIP will ensure researchers receive the resources they require in order to tackle this disease effectively. We will pledge an extra £130 million per year to dementia funding.

Secondly, we will stop outright wastage and bad management.

We will stop up to £2 billion pounds being lost to the NHS every year through ‘health tourism’; foreign nationals who come to Britain specifically to get free NHS treatment or prescriptions, or who don’t pay their bills, or who are living in Britain only temporarily, or who are here illegally.

We will cut this bill by insisting migrants, students and visitors to Britain must have approved medical insurance: it’s not fair to expect British taxpayers to pay for foreign nationals to use the NHS. This is Britain: our NHS is the National Health Service, not the INTERNATIONAL Health Service.

• UKIP will not give NHS numbers to overseas visitors. Only once they have contributed through taxation for five years, will their requirement for health insurance expire.

UKIP had stated skilled foreign workers such as nurses would be given work permits it recognises the benefits of “limited, controlled” immigration. Work permits would be issued to fill skills gaps in the UK jobs market such as in the health service. But EU workers, who currently have the right to live and work in the UK, would face the same points-based system and time-limited work permits that currently applies to non-EU migrants.

Foreign health service professionals coming to work in the NHS will be required to speak English to “a standard acceptable to the profession” and they will be properly qualified for the job. The policy comes against the backdrop of a rise in the number of foreign nurses joining the NHS. Data from 103 English NHS hospital trusts show that 5,778 nurses were recruited from overseas in the 12 months to September 2014, with the largest numbers coming from Spain, Portugal, the Philippines and Italy. This compares with a figure of just 1,360 reported by 40 trusts in the previous year.

Those coming to work in the UK must have a job to go to, must speak English and must have accommodation agreed prior to their arrival under Ukip diktat.

Nigel Farage has previously said: “I want to live in a country that is at ease with itself, where we speak the same language.. Where our kids can play football with each other, and we all get on.”

For me I will be voting UKIP in spite of the demonisation, misinformation, nonsense and attacks at the party.

Peace, im off.