Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 5:20pm On Mar 27, 2025 |
jedisco: That's the reason you pay your tax and vote so someone whose role it is can worry about that. The way I see it, I'm hardly paid enough for the job I do, why take on someone's role?
In same vein- If you're a border officer and you encounter a stranded migrant boat at sea, you don't let them drown because the country is broke as you'd rightly go to jail. You rescue them do what you're paid for. If you work at Tesco and see folks stealing- you don't go fight them cos you'd get sacked, you do your job. If you work on a paediatric ward and see that young girl spending weeks on the ward cos she has refused to eat or being admitted multiple times cos she keeps taking paracetamol, you don't go scolding her, you do your job. If you work as a paramedic and are dispatched to that persons house who have threatened to kill themselves for the umpteenth time, you dont cancel the case because you rightly know they are wasting money which we don't have. You follow relevant processes. If you wirk in a school and see a child having temper tantrums, throwing sand your way, you don't go teaching him or her African discipline and get sacked, you do your job. If you work as a social worker and decline people care 'because your council is broke', you'd get into serious issues and your council will sack you.
There was a case of late where someone who attended A&E with back pain and certain worrying features and didn't have a scan. Coincidentally, he heard someone mention that an MRI was expensive (wasn't the reason he didn't have one). Turned out the chap had a rare medical issue (which should have been picked on a scan) that is regarded as an emergency as it should be fixed in a few hours once detected. He went on to lose some control of his bladder and subsequently sued the hospital and got a payout of £1 million. I listened to the Trust's Director narrate this- one of the issues that came up in court was narration that someone mentioned the scan was expensive- guess how much the scan would cost the hospital? £350. That staff must have been repeating discussions they heard in house. p.s this doesn't mean everyone with back pain needs a scan- very few actually do.
When you talk about depression, you first need to understand the system you are in. Look at the care pathway many hustle for and give testimony after securing a visa. Put an average Brit through that and they'd return depressed and rightly so. Even I would. When I issue sick (fit) notes, I make a conscious effort to ensure the prevailing media narrative has no influence on what I issue or not. I pay enough taxes for someone else to worry about that. It would interest you to know that a recent ocuurence has been the DWP calling people's doctors late in the day cos during an assessment, someone mentioned they had self-harm thoughts. You ask them why they are in a hurry to tell you, and they start mumbling. Of course, its to share the blame should something go wrong..
I can go on and on but can't stress this enough. Understand the country you're in and do your job. Rachel Reeves think otherwise. PIP gone. |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 12:44am On Mar 27, 2025 |
Lexusgs430: Anyone seen the list of properties, the UK government are about to inherit....... 57 Nigerian's with no known NOK, are about to lose their assets to the crown........ 😁😂👑👑👑 I said it. Africa is always there to exploit. Our rulers will rather bring the money here and buy houses where they wont sleep in for years than to invest on their own people. No other way to put it .Something is definitely wrong with black race. |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 7:18pm On Mar 26, 2025 |
Goke7: I will report you to them you’re one of those people always complaining about benefits make dem find you come your house to carry you 😂 Dem de ment. |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 6:52pm On Mar 26, 2025 |
Goke7:
on top Benefits matter abi You wan remove their birthright |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 2:36pm On Mar 26, 2025 |
Lexusgs430: That girl from account department, is about to unleash her dragon...... 😂🐲🐉🤔 Spring statement |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 2:18pm On Mar 25, 2025 |
jedisco: Hehe.. I knew this would come up.
For starters, I can guess what you're thinking, no be 9ja be dis. The first thing you do when you come into the UK is understand the system you work in. First, what is your understanding of someone not being fit for work. Then secondly, what is your understanding of the benefit system? As a medic, you soon learn your job is not to be a fit note police -been there, done that, na you go tire that is if you no enter wahala.
Look widely, there are children wards where not uncommonly upto 1 in 5 kids admitted on an average day are not there because they have a physical health issues but because of mental health related issues i.e they are not eating, took paracetamol overdose, self-harming e.t.c. What would you do if you encounter such kids who would ultimately grow to become adults? You support them. In this country, hospitals would pay 4 people to sit all day and only be brought into action if a child refuses to eat. Abi is it the one of a hospital building a house for someone so the person could get off the ward. Or those that have called out an ambulance visit them over 200 times in a few months cos they keep threatening to kill themselves. Outside health, what happens when you see folks looting a store- do you start boxing them? Even the grocery chains sack their staff who accost thieves. If you have not worked in public facing roles, then there's the part of British life that'd take a while to understand.
It has nothing to do with inate strength. Some of the things you see as work, others see as suffer. If you have the system you have here anywhere, it would get abused overtime. The govt knows what to do to make it sustainable but again, this is Britain. A colleague of mine completed a work assessment for someone in Canada, chap had lost part of a limb in a freak work accident. Their DWP equivalent callen the chap in for an assessment and afterwards told him to go and be a motivational speaker - him self weak for the guy. Here, outcome would be different. If you want a free for all, you get a free for all. Benefits are there as an essential safetynet. It maintains human dignity in a society but everything has a cost. Not when the nation is broke. If the money is there thats fine. desperate times desperate measures. Have you seen the huge borrowing rate. The IMF projects a 9% increase in the UK’s debt-to-GDP figure by 2025. dem go dey alright Africa is there to exploit. |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 2:30am On Mar 25, 2025 |
Goke7: Rather I just see a Guinea pig scenario where once you’re thinking of revenue increase you turn on immigrants and when you want to rant on society ills you also turn on immigrants. So they are both your problem and revenue tap. phew! And they cry that China is taking over or the immigrants are taking their jobs and dont adopt British values. Their matter tire me jare. Make I face my African biz |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 2:24am On Mar 25, 2025 |
jedisco: The kinda things one sees sef. More should be done to support many young minds back into work which we all know they'd find beneficial.
Why should we be bringing in tens of thousands of farm workers when we have almost a million young NEETs? Same also applies to care which is only slowly being adressed.
Holly, 17, had to drop out of college for having too much time off and explained she has a long-term condition that makes her sick, as well as autism and ADHD. "I'm still living with my parents but I'm also on PIP," she says.
"I'm working on getting a fit note at the moment," she says, referring to a note from her doctor that could lead to her being signed off. It would mean she'd get more money in benefits - around double the amount a jobseeker receives with no condition to look for work - but she'd then risk losing it if she got a job, a situation she believes is perverse. https://archive.is/t21X6 As a dr you should know better. You are thesame people that issue out fit note like you are doing give away. Someone comes to clinic with unshaved beard and old clothes. Boom you guys just issue fit note and say they are depressed and they go on benefit. However, put aside those gaming the system and going on benefit. There are many genuinely sick people in this country. Could it be that white folks are naturally not strong, could it be the cold or their genetics or maybe it’s a publicly funded health system. No matter the incentives the government provides I know one thing for sure that it wont make them work. They see that benefit money as birthright. |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 5:44am On Mar 21, 2025 |
Zahra29: Important changes to the skilled worker route, effective April 9:
- Recruitment of care and senior care workers from overseas, or other immigration routes, will be banned in effect (applies to England only):
Employers will be required to prioritise care workers who have lost their sponsorship and/or are looking for new employment before they can consider overseas applicants or those on other immigration routes (doesn't apply to applicants already in a sponsored role).
- Minimum salary for sponsorship is to rise from £23,200 to £25,000, which means that Band 3 entry level roles will no longer meet the salary threshold for sponsorship
- Where an applicant is claiming a ‘new entrant’ salary reduction based on training towards a recognised professional qualification, this must be a UK qualification.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules/updates Problem no dey finish. |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 6:27pm On Mar 20, 2025 |
OgbeniOptional: I have a feeling this will put more strain on mental health services, people are so predictable in this country. They have perfected the art of gaming the benefit system. This is not sustainable as the country is broke as they keep saying. It’s alarming the number of people going into benefit monthly. What do I know make I mind river states business. |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 6:23pm On Mar 18, 2025 |
Good one
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Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 2:34pm On Mar 18, 2025 |
Goke7: The tax system needs reforms, you can’t be collecting too much from people and asking them to work their ass out. That maths is not adding up any longer. Uk Pay less tax compare to other european nations. |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 1:39am On Mar 18, 2025 |
UK needs to tackle benefit welfare system while they can. Many people haven’t become lazy and not ready to work. |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 1:40pm On Mar 17, 2025 |
jedisco: But wait o... is it not easier, safer and faster to use any of the available apps? Na scammer. |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 4:04am On Mar 15, 2025 |
jedisco: All this talk about benefit claimants is beginning to sound like that against migration- if Labour wants to act, they should get on and act.
But seriously... 1 in 8
Why do we need care worker or seasonal farmer visas where almost a huge chunk could be put to use in the care or farming sector? With this, anyone who pays tax without claimimg benefits is an asset already
"A wasted generation, one-in-eight young people not in education, employment or training, and the people who really need that safety net still not always getting the dignity they deserve... As of January, 9.3 million people aged 16 to 64 in the UK were economically inactive - a rise of 713,000 since the pandemic.... Last year, the government spent £65bn on sickness benefits and that figure is forecast to increase by tens of billions before the next general election. Yes |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 4:01am On Mar 15, 2025 |
justwise: Who else is regreting not selling his/her Tesla share? I went from green to red and its not looking better anytime soon.
Not sure buying now is a wise move But the dip |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 3:56am On Mar 15, 2025 |
Santa2: Its incredible how Tesla can go from one of the best companies to invest in to the state it is now in just a few weeks. Elon's actions and timing is very bad because even in his own words before his recent alignment, he was already facing fierce competition from the Chinese EV car makers (BYD, Li autos, Zeekr, Changan etc) that he dismissed a few years before. Have you seen the state of the EVs from China, they are extremely innovative, with loaded features for half the cost of EVs from the west. China's gone from a copy cat manufacturing state 20 years ago to making and leading innovative strides in AI, robotics and EV. Its amazing how D Trump is just making the case for China's rise, alienating America's goodwill with its allies (Canada, EU) and pushing them East. The next four years are going to be very interesting. They have only perfected the art of espionage. All they do is spy and improve on it. Most of their student in the west are spying for their country. Ultimately, may the best spy win as the us and the west do thesame. |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 6:41pm On Mar 01, 2025 |
Zahra29: Coke head? Wow, says it all really. You saw him do coke? Stop saying what you don’t know. |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 6:20pm On Mar 01, 2025 |
Kenn55: I believed in non proliferation of nukes so I was against the likes of Iran, NK or others from obtaining nukes. But given the Ukraine hopelessness, I now support nukes for everyone. Iran should have it and other countries who want it should get it. We are going to hell. If nukes don’t end us all, then Astroids will. Humans are greedy. |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 6:12pm On Mar 01, 2025 |
Zahra29: This is inaccurate.
Russia invaded Crimea, a former part of Ukraine, in 2014 and annexed it. It had nothing to do with NATO. The west stood by and did nothing. Years later and Russia has come back for more.
Russia also invaded Georgia in 2008 and will no doubt be back for more.
Poland is relatively safe because of its NATO membership. Sweden and Finland were previously neutral but have since joined NATO after Russia invaded Ukraine.
Any eastern European country that is not already in NATO is very much fair game in Putin's imperial ambitions. nuclear war heads = Big balls |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 6:00pm On Mar 01, 2025 |
Cyberknight: Mad people. Musk shows up in a Tshirt, jeans and a cap at a so-called Cabinet meeting and no planted journalist asks him why he isn't wearing a suit. The billionaires have utterly capture America. They are in control now. |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 4:15am On Feb 28, 2025 |
Goodenoch: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/starmer-accuses-badenoch-desperate-search-123457910.html
The brave, straight-talking Kemi Badenoch had another catastrophe at PMQs today, and ended up complaining to daddy the Speaker about Starmer being patronizing when he dismissed her flimsy questions (even the Spectator said they were ineffective) as 'a desperate search for relevance' from someone who had 'cast herself as the saviour of western civilisation.'
You'd almost feel sorry for her...until you remember how she reffered to care workers as butt wipers.
It looks like her real value lies in her ability to provide entertainment, and she's doing well at that, to be fair. He who forgets his root will be reminded of where he is from outsiders. You see that Africa wey una no want to work ehn the effect go touch all of una no matter your position. |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 1:31am On Feb 24, 2025 |
Lexusgs430: It was £450,000..... 😂🤣 Heard it was 500k |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 2:17am On Feb 22, 2025 |
Lexusgs430: When I said LISA is like ISA, it's full of sarcasm.... 😂
Have you thought about what happens to a LISA account, after home purchsse or not eventually buying a home...... 😁
You can keep paying into your LISA, until you turn 50 and HMRC would continually credit you 25%......
Only snag is, you can't access the funds till you retire, or you get penalised...... Now why would I do this, when I could rather open a SIPP account and have full investment opportunities + full exposure to the largest market in the world...... 😂🌍 Palatir says hello |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 3:36am On Feb 13, 2025 |
Lexusgs430: Those that supported Labour Party, could you kindly explain to me why, the minister of border and security in the United Kingdom...... Would be working from his home in Finland?? m Uk is too hot for him. |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 6:17pm On Feb 10, 2025 |
Lexusgs430: This is the problem with British Judicial system (amongst other problems) ......😁
A criminal could not be deported, because his child could not eat foreign chicken nuggets.... 🐔😂
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdUx88nN/ The British people are intrinsically compassionate, honest and care for humans except the tax paying immigrant who came in legally.  |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 3:28pm On Feb 08, 2025 |
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Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 3:03pm On Feb 08, 2025 |
Zahra29: That's exactly how I feel when you, Jedi Jedi and your unmerry gang pile up against me  I saw what you did there….Jedi Jedi and pile up in one sentence. 🤣 |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 6:42pm On Feb 01, 2025 |
Zahra29: Not sure, but same question applies to the UK. We give out millions in aid to developing nations including India (who many have argued is no longer in need of our aid if they're capable of sending rockets into space) :/
Bdw the new US secretary of state has put a pause on foreign aid pending a "review". They even said uk aid is peanut. So why keep giving them free money. No brainer
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Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 2:24am On Feb 01, 2025 |
Goke7: 1. A Thank you gift for allowing us to explore all your mineral resources a.k.a goodwill
2. Soft Power so you don't abandon us for China Dashing out these billions in foreign health aid while the tax payers are one health issue away into debt and overwhelming debt. |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 9:02pm On Jan 31, 2025 |
Can anyone explain why Americans give out these humongous foreign aids to country’s. What do they stand to get in return? |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 9:00pm On Jan 31, 2025 |
Barclays Down |