The Women’s Equality Party took on Nigel Farage today as they released a giant billboard mocking his controversial “Breaking Point” poster.
The WEP, which is standing in London in the European elections next week, reversed the sentiment in Ukip’s EU referendum campaign poster.
Mr Farage’s poster, released when he was leader of the party, showed refugees walking through a field in Slovenia with the caption, “The EU has failed us all”. It was criticised for inciting racial hatred and reported the police.
The billboard unveiled by the WEP at Westfield Stratford City by its president Catherine Mayer shows a similar queue — but this time it is EU doctors, nurses and care workers leaving the UK over Brexit uncertainty.
Dr Hannah Barham-Brown, a WEP candidate for London, said: “Ukip claimed that we were at breaking point because too many people were arriving — when the truth is that our services are in crisis because too many people are leaving.
“There is now a shortage of more than 200,000 staff across the NHS and social care workforce and neither of the main parties has a plan to deal with it.”
In the past 12 months the number of European Economic Area nurses and midwives arriving to work in the NHS fell to 968.
The year before the 2016 Brexit referendum, 9,389 arrived to take up health service jobs.
