• Hackney's Homerton Hospital, in Abbott's constituency, was experiencing staff shortages.
I am surprised that they chose to bring in blonde, blue-eyed girls from Finland, instead of nurses from the Caribbean who know the language and understand British culture and institutions. [...] Are Finnish girls, who may never have met a black person before, let alone touched one, best suited to nurse in multicultural Hackney?
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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I am surprised that they chose to bring in blonde, blue-eyed girls from Finland, instead of nurses from the Caribbean who know the language and understand British culture and institutions. [...] Are Finnish girls, who may never have met a black person before, let alone touched one, best suited to nurse in multicultural Hackney?" in the context of "On the recruitment of Finnish nurses in Britain from an article in the Hackney Gazette, as cited in "Abbott denies attack on nurses was racist", The Herald (Glasgow, 28 November 1996)
• Hackney's Homerton Hospital, in Abbott's constituency, was experiencing staff shortages." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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