Exactly Libby. Many people use to get stumped because they'd go abroad in the knowledge health care is free, then run into all sorts of obstacles, especially when they couldn't get back home. I had to be flown home in a light aircraft which had doctors onboard (medic flight), it would have cost me my house if I hadn't taken out my £10 insurance, but saying it's free is misleading to people, then you hear about the horror stories and the fund raising pages to help get them home.
Yeah it's madness. People just assume that it won't happen to them until it does. No sympathy tbh. When I took nipper to Morocco I made sure to get cover which included quad biking as the last thing I wanted was for him to break his arm coming off a quad bike in the desert and not be covered for it. Cost just over double what a 'normal' level of cover did but worth every penny.
Youngest went to Mallorca couple of weeks back - cost me £27 with LVIC for their Premium cover - blanket on everything and only invalid if travelling against Home Office advice... 'Emergency medical cover and repatriation' - £10million! Had same policy when middle girl went to Vietnam and Cambodia a year ago...
Do we not own islands? Let's ship them all straight from the dinghys offshore on some anthrax island I like Rupert.
Not sure, what I'm sure of is the Southport riots peeps were hauled before a court in days and jailed. Thats what I know
I think this card has replaced the old EHIC, but it's only down to negotiations to keep reciprocal healthcare benefits for EU and UK citizens that we've kept it. The hard brexiteers wanted to bin everything off and have nothing to do with the EU at all
Camilla queen of the house of Buck or whatever she's called bought some stuff from me at a show once. She didn't know what to do when I asked her for payment and one of her aides quickly shuffled in and whipped out a Coutts & Co card.
Well no, but you quoted my response to Fosse, who had said Starmer had sorted the situation with his one in one out policy. Which clearly sorts nothing.
Makes no diff to me mate I live in London and we're full of em already you wouldn't even notice. It's the little places getting them shipped in on coaches at night that I worry for. See Saf for deets
used to watch Poles come into the jobcentre regularly and on a number of occasions saw ones who couldn't speak english leave having got a job after a friend/acquaintance translated for them . Presume they then went to the tax office to claim working tax credits .though
