Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
Andy, please don?t turn into TTR or start feeling sorry for yourself. There is a point in offering anecdotes?of course there is, but when they?re clearly flawed then they are going to be challenged.
As I remember, and I?ve got better things to do that trawl back, your ?nurse friend? claimed that her experience of working for the NHS was likened to feeling alien working WITH foreigners FOR foreigners. That view (of hers) isn?t accurate is it? That is what was challenged, not your relaying of the anecdote.
Likewise your recounting of the dodgy passport anecdote. You got the destination wrong and, again as I recall, it wasn?t dodgy at all as first claimed, but in that grey area close to expiry. It was your neighbour?s tale retold, something was lost in translation and you didn?t like being doubted, that was the problem.

You?re regularly amongst the first to challenge claims made by others, e.g. MA?s GP/patient equation. Don?t be surprised when people challenge the accuracy of aspects of your tales. It happens to everyone. Anecdotes are important but if they?re going to be taken seriously as indicative stories they can?t afford to be so obviously flawed and need to stand a little scrutiny.
I fear AF has gone down the same rabbit hole as the dim red one. I mean he must have some understanding that one persons recounted experience is not necessarily and indeed most often isn't indicative of the whole situation. But then I guess if your experience is narrow, your views blinkered, then you will believe what you want to believe!

I mean how anyone capable of rational thought can state that the so called mass immigration of the 1990's and the failure to plan and invest for it, doesn't include the phrase from 2010 until 2024 when successive Tory governments inflicted austerity and cost cutting on virtually all public services, is beyond me.

I haven't read the dim red fans *******s. but will no doubt consist of cherry picked problems with people with an ethnic background which are real enough, but taken as a whole not significant whilst ignoring factors that having nothing to do with ethnicity. Ah well I guess the blind will lead the blind.