The NHS is on its knees because of deliberate underfunding. It is only still going because NHS workers have taken a 25-35% real terms pay cut since 2010. It cannot recover off the backs of its workforce, not least because that workforce can easily find work elsewhere but the NHS cannot replace them.
The Tories are doing this because they want to privatise health care. Don’t make it so easy for them.
The issue isn’t the current government, the issue is all the people (such are yourself) putting down striking workers instead of supporting them and their cause.
Frankly, we’re long overdue a general strike. But the British public are such masochistic pussies that it probably will never happen.
Then it isn’t realistic for the NHS to have junior doctors…
Though the Tories want nothing more than to finish off their destruction of the NHS, they still need enough of the working age population to have sufficient health to be in the workforce. As things stand, too many people cannot access healthcare in a timely fashion, and have had to leave work, with consequent impact on the similarly vandalised benefits system, and the nation as a whole.
This is not remotely sustainable, and their plans to privatise healthcare will only exacerbate the problem. Reversing the damage inflicted is the only way forward.
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The NHS is on its knees due to 14 years of deliberate Tory underfunding and sabotage. Asking for a reasonable wage is not a unreasonable act.
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The amount asked, is simply the amount lost due to inflation over multiple years without an inflation-matching pay rise.
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So how about the government actually open proper negotiations ?
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So what solution would you suggest
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The NHS is on its knees because of deliberate underfunding. It is only still going because NHS workers have taken a 25-35% real terms pay cut since 2010. It cannot recover off the backs of its workforce, not least because that workforce can easily find work elsewhere but the NHS cannot replace them.
The Tories are doing this because they want to privatise health care. Don’t make it so easy for them.
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The issue isn’t the current government, the issue is all the people (such are yourself) putting down striking workers instead of supporting them and their cause.
Frankly, we’re long overdue a general strike. But the British public are such masochistic pussies that it probably will never happen.
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Then it isn’t realistic for the NHS to have junior doctors…
Though the Tories want nothing more than to finish off their destruction of the NHS, they still need enough of the working age population to have sufficient health to be in the workforce. As things stand, too many people cannot access healthcare in a timely fashion, and have had to leave work, with consequent impact on the similarly vandalised benefits system, and the nation as a whole.
This is not remotely sustainable, and their plans to privatise healthcare will only exacerbate the problem. Reversing the damage inflicted is the only way forward.
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