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  I was discharged from the William Harvey hospital at Ashford this afternoon after a successful total hip replacement. I have nothing but praise for all the staff who treated me from surgeons to tea ladies. If it wasn't for immigration that hospital would grind to a halt and that includes sugeons and tea ladies.
  
  I believe that we are short of surgeons and nurses because our own (who have been trained by the NHS) up sticks and move abroad for richer pickings. It's a free market of course so that is why we have to import people to replace them.
  
  The day that I was assessed for the operation I had to wait adjacent to the kitchen that provides all the tea trolleys for the patients and all the workers making up the tea trolleys were Phillipinos. (I like Phillipinos Marek before you go blasting off). Surely we don't advertise in the Phillipino press for tea ladies and men, I thought that people had to have some qualification before getting a work visa.
  
  Where are our own tea ladies , have they upped sticks and moved abroad for richer pickings?. I doubt it. We know where they are and they don't want to work for the minimum wage. There were some English tea ladies but they seemed to be in the minority.

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