Online editor's blog: Is it OK for nurses to join the BNP?
- Published: 25 November 2008 16:30
- Author: Gabriel Fleming
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- Last Updated: 25 November 2008 16:59
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The four nurses appearing on the BNP membership list has have opened up quite a can of worms. Nursing Times online editor Gabriel Fleming joins the debate
Debates like this tend to inspire quick and harsh opinion, so Mental Nurse's measured response was a welcome voice of reason. If you haven't got time to read it, at least take the chance to laugh at the BNP.
Personally, I wouldn't fancy being a black patient in a busy A&E department with a card-carrying member of the BNP making the triage decisions.
But it has to be said that the BNP is a legal and legitmate part of the UK political system, so why shouldn't nurses be allowed to join? Perhaps because being a member of a party whose founding principle is disliking foreigners contravenes the nursing ethos of caring for everyone. But maybe it's more complicated than that. The debate goes on.
This blog also appears on nursesuniverse.blogspot.com
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