Award-winning nurse struck off after sharing anti-immigration posts on social media saying 'foreigners' coming to Britain will become 'your rulers'
Roberta Batchelor was stripped of her licence after a disciplinary panel concluded a series of her social media posts 'sought to cause offence to immigrants...and those of Muslim faith'.
An award-winning NHS nurse has been struck off after sharing anti-immigrant posts online saying that 'foreigners' who come to Britain will end up 'being your rulers'.
Roberta Batchelor was stripped of her licence after a disciplinary panel concluded a series of her social media posts 'sought to cause offence to immigrants...and those of Muslim faith'.
She bizarrely claimed to have been acting out of anger over the Labour government's cuts to winter fuel allowance and was 'caught up in all the unrest in the country'.
It proved an ignominious end to a career spanning 40 years at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, which had seen Mrs Batchelor work her way up from a cleaner to managing a ward.
In 2015, she won a 'pride of nursing' award in Birmingham.
The senior nurse was also regularly trotted out by the hospital to speak about her work in interviews, including a 13-minute Instagram video posted on the trust's account in which she celebrated diversity. It has since been deleted.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) heard Mrs Batchelor's anti-immigrant posts began in August 2024 and included sharing an image of Arab men chasing a child with a knife.
Its caption said: 'Next time when you pay your taxes, remember that some of your money goes to the "protection of Mosques".'
Another post included a split image showing a boat filled with people arriving at the beach captioned 'these give nothing and get everything' and a homeless veteran captioned 'these give everything and get nothing'.
A third post claimed to highlight a section of the Bible, stating: 'Foreigners who live in your land will gain more and more power, while you gradually lose yours.'
It continued: 'They will have money to lend you, but you will have none to lend them. In the end they will be your rulers.'
Her final social media post had a split image showing a security inspection captioned 'YOU AT THE AIRPORT' and a man departing from a boat captioned 'MUHAMMAD AT DOVER'.
In the same month, the Trust received a complaint from a member of the public about Mrs Batchelor's social media, alleging that the posts were racially abusive.
An investigation was launched, and the posts on her Facebook account which targeted Muslims and immigrants to the United Kingdom were found.
During the investigation, the nurse admitted to making the posts and apologised.
Roberta Batchelor was stripped of her licence after a disciplinary panel concluded a series of her social media posts 'sought to cause offence to immigrants...and those of Muslim faith'