In an interview with the Radio Times Henman was asked if he had any gossip from the changing rooms and said: “Well, the Czechs are a bit niffy”. What all Czechs? – Surely not – what xenophobic claptrap. Source: BBC & Daily Mirror.

The BBC website carries the story UK paying for ‘migrant baby boom’ what exactly is the BBC saying? The article opens.

The NHS is spending £350m a year to provide maternity services for foreign-born mothers, £200m more than a decade ago, the BBC has found.

Then talks about the decline in standards and the unacceptable service that some health authorities are supplying, and then we hit the nub of the article.

According to figures from the Office for National Statistics, in 2006 there were 15,000 more Eastern European babies born here than a decade earlier.

The statistics go on to show that 11,000 more babies were born to a mother from the Indian sub-continent, while 8,000 extra babies had mothers born in Africa.

This is Xenophobia, hitting all the targets, that the countries racists and xenophobes love, Eastern Europe, that’s, Romanians, Poles, Bulgarians, Slovakians. Then there’s Africans and Asians to satisfy the racists.

The implication of the headline is that the UK is paying for these spongers. What I don’t understand is what thought processes went on before writing the headline. By “UK paying”, I guess we mean taxpayers, which generally means everybody in work, which probably means these very mothers too. And that’s as it should be the UK paying its way. How much consideration of this important point was made before writing the headline? It would appear none.