> Anyone who genuinely is in a life threatening condition can receive treatment at NHS A&E hospital This statement is false. People have died as a result of w

> Anyone who genuinely is in a life threatening condition can receive treatment at NHS A&E hospital This statement is false. People have died as a result of withheld life-critical treatment under the hostile environment, and not by mistake. One immediately comes to mind who was in the middle of life-critical cancer treatment, when it was abruptly suspended by a hostile environment requirement, and then some months later they died as everyone knew they would. What you are thinking of is emergency treatement, which is not the same as life threatening. Unfortunately I also know of people who have avoided going to A&E despite facing a life-threatening emergency, preferring to cross their fingers than to risk being placed in prison ("detention centres") and later deported, when they turn up at A&E. After all, even if you get emergency treatement, enforcement sometimes turns up to take you away after the treatment before you leave hospital. Whether that fear is justified or not, it is a fact that some people believe that it is dangerous to go to hospital, due to the messages put out by the "Conservative" government and the "embedded" immigration staff at hospitals. There are also pregnant women who ought to attend hospital for the safety of their child, but again, are too afraid to attend hospital due to justified fear of the consequences. Another fine example: The Home Office sentenced a woman to death while she was still in a coma, saying she could recieve "palliative" care in the destination country instead of life saving treatment she was in the middle of receiving in the UK. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-immigration-deportation-woman-coma-home-office-crohn-s-disease-bhavani-espathi-a8903271.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-immigrati... In my view, it's not hyperbolic to describe those decisions as authoritarian bordering on totalitarian for those people. But it's because it only affects a subset of people that most other people don't think it's a problem. Those are completely different conditions to those faced by "any tourist". A tourist would receive life saving treatment in the above example.