**"But profits erode clinical care. Take the controversial PFI initiative, under which more than 50 NHS hospitals are being handed over to companies such as Jarvis, Tarmac, Siemens, Rentokil, and Initial to run. Across all the first 15 British PFI hospitals, the number of hospital beds has been reduced by a third."

**"But why is this population of illegal immigrants viewed with an equanimity which would be entirely missing if they had arrived in boats?

Let us be charitable. Perhaps, just perhaps, someone might have recognised that - were it not for the cruel conditions under which they are living - a decent population of hard-working, committed immigrants might even be good for the country.

And without them, what would people do when they needed a bathroom tiled on the cheap, a shonky watertower built, or fancied screwing a heroin addict with the body of a child?"