DEAL WITH HUGE MEDICAL STAFF SHORTAGE IN NHS

It takes years to train up medical staff, so we need international non-citizen staff now. 

• Huge recruitment drive, worldwide, once pandemic ends, of doctors and nurses. 

• End UK visa fees for NHS staff from anywhere in the world.

• (Back in 2021, for example, £624 visa fee charge is also paid by spouses and children, meaning the total cost can reach £8,000 for a family of four on a five-year work permit.)

• Recruit fully trained mental health nurses worldwide. 

• For care homes (all ages) to pay £15 per hour, from age 16, to paid carers, citizen or non-citizen paid carer. 

WINDRUSH GENERATION 

• Repatriate back to UK, Windrush Generation who have not committed serious criminal offences, and grant them automatic free British citizenship and rights to free NHS care / treatment.   

BRITISH JOBS (all races and religions) 

• Jobs first offered to UK citizens and only when no-one suitable found, offer job to 

non-citizen worker, who will be paid the same as British worker and must join the appropriate British trade union for the job. 

• Stop overseas-only recruitment practices. 

• A tailored mix of Employer sponsorship, work permits and visa regulations.

• Increase contributory element from investments required for High Net Worth Individual Visas of non-citizens.  

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS 

• Crackdown on fake colleges. 

• Full payment of university tuition fees by non-citizen students, with no recourse to public funds. 

TRADE UNION MEMBERSHIP AUTOMATIC 

• Automatic trade union membership, whether citizen or not. 

• Working with trade unions to end workplace exploitation of non-citizen workers.

• Non-citizens will be paid the same as British workers, so not used to undercut British workers’ wages and work conditions, 

• Non-citizens with the same workers’ rights and requirement for trade union membership,

• Increasing prosecutions of employers evading the minimum wage,

• strengthen safety-at-work inspections. 

• This includes for non citizen domestic workers, exploited in modern day slavery.  

EU SEASONAL FARM WORKERS 

• Permit EU workers employed across farming, fishing and food manufacturing, to do their seasonal work in UK, reinstating the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme. 

But ensuring the caravans they temporarily live in, are of a habitable standard. 

SLAVERY 

• Help UK asylum seekers who do not seek formal asylum to escape slavery, usually of their own culture / language group. 

• Work with business to ensure the provisions of the Modern Slavery Act are fully respected, including reporting on due diligence in supply chains. 

REFUGEES 

• Take fair share of refugees. 

• Refugees / asylum seekers can apply at any British Embassy or Consulate worldwide, with us testing refugees for skills shortages in UK. 

• Absorb RNLI lifeboats, who rely only on charitable donations, into a fully-funded, direct employed Coast Guard, to save people from drowning at sea. Giving current RNLI volunteers who wish, first offer of those new full-time jobs. Also part-time out of season work for fishermen. 

• At same time as huge increase in social housing being built for UK citizens, put up social housing for refugees in cities within same language / culture groups. Utilising brownfield sites. 

INTEGRATION / PREVENTION OF STRESS INJURY OF CULTURE SHOCK 

• Fully fund further education colleges, with free, lifelong education that enables you to upskill or retrain at any point in life to citizens and resident migrants with UK permanent resident rights. Including free English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). 

• Have separate ESOL English classes for
non-British children in school and adults in further education, with teachers of their own culture / language citizen migrants here for generations, teaching elocution (how to pronounce English) and British culture. 

This is reverse of what done during British Empire, when the colonial officer had this kind of training before going out to a colony (but the local big-wig did the direct ruling of local people). Still wrong, we know, to be colonial. 

The children can then ask a question about English language to a teacher who understands their language. 

This is how the world out there prevents the stress injury of Culture Shock in foreign cultures. 

• ESOL English classes for adults to voluntarily include how to speak the local English dialect, as well as standard English, which standard pronunciation is a world communication tool between all language speakers. 

• Teach the original language spoken at home of migrant children (citizen or not), to 

O and A level exam level at school. As they also have the culture, useful in doing business when adults with that country of their ethnicity / language / culture. 

• Once basic English is taught, undertake the different levels of Cambridge Proficiency exams in English in schools.