They have been given an unprecedented 22% pay rise by this government and improvements to their conditions.
I’m fairly sure they won’t have right to strike come the next right wing populist government with the narrative of LAZY DOCTORS GET BACK TO WORK. With cherry picked examples of how much they earn.
I’m sure they don’t want this, but it’s an unintended consequence of their actions.
It's largely reported (in the fascist sympathising press) as just being about money (no surprise there).
It's not.
We don't have enough doctors and nurses. We have 'sent them all back' in a lot of cases (many to a personal choice of "fuck this I'm outa here" - including 'our own' that we have trained. To australia and the like.). Yet there are doctors coming out of the academic proscess, unable to secure a training place in hospitals, because those training positions have been massively slashed.
If they do nothing, there wont be a functioning health service in not so long. If they wait until reform get in there definitely wont be a functioning health service much quicker.
It's important for key stakeholders in our essential services to draw attention to the erosion of capability and service. In order for it to be drawn attention to, it has to have a meaningful impact. Then people have to think, and make good decisions, rather than being told what to do by billionaires and russians.
I would choose to take it as a long overdue wake up call for society as a whole to have a more grown up discussion around where we want to be in terms of building or tearing down social capital, and how we structure things going forward to stop the roof leaking ever more. I would not consider it a suitable example of an opportunity to demonise doctors, who had a 22% pay pay rise, that was an effective 30-odd percent pay cut over ten years. A period in which their colleages were lost to a hostile environment, or on the frontline fighting covid - dying at a disproportionate rate to the rest of the country, or being hounded out and assaulted.
For me, we really need to step behind the headlines and actually make our contry something to be proud of again...rather than a petty little fascist state that knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing.
YMMV.
Whatever the reason, a strike is going to be counter productive. Normally I would be right on side, but this is ill judged. Of course they absolutely deserve more and better but right now, we're trying to crawl out of the mire and there's others waiting their turn for a bit of resource.
I’m certainly not demonising doctors at all (not sure you are suggesting I am) but just want to be clear on that.
However I am very disappointed with this action taken.
And they do fully deserve the 22% pay rise but every other public sector worker also saw similar levels of pay decline under the Tories and they got nothing like that.
And whilst I’m pretty sure Labour would want to reward all public sector areas, there isn’t the money and the doctors aren’t getting more.
Not as many had to go into a plague house, be kiilled in significant numbers, and suffer the stress of living seperate lives from their families to try to save your Nan while they did it.
But as I say. It's not a competion for me. This should be the trigger for us to have a grown up conversation about the social capital of our siciety. Do we want some, or do we want the fascists to roam free and take everything we had, including our freedom and health?
My nans were long dead. There was no saving them.
You kind of are making it a competition with comments like that though as all public sector worker also bodies can make a claim as to why they deserve more.
And the more these strikes play out the more likely we are to have Farage and his cronies in charge. You know the ones who think nurses spend all day on tik tok.
Let them. That's not the doctors responsibility.
See not making it a competition.
So the govt should restructure taxation to ensure the megawealthy pay for socialised healthcare, if that's what bothers you.
It's not 'me', it's 'us'. 'We' want doctors using food banks, so that foreign corporations can keep making a mint off us.
Bezos has only sent up 3 rockets this year, who's side are you on?
Oh good. Trump is suing the BBC . Cunt.
Flood the zone, flood the zone, don't leave space to think about the important stuff, flood the zone.
The patriots are very happy about a foreigner suing the British Broadcasting Corporation.
You couldn't make it up.
Pretty clear he can't win though, isn't it?
American free speech laws make it very hard to win anything like that, especially when they did use his words.
And it wasn't even broadcast or available legitimately in the US.
He seems to have found a minor minor distributor or something that may have shown it. Briefly. Which has allowed him to sue I think. Read the BBC article.
Whether he'll win or not? Well it'll keep getting bumped up the US courts until it gets to the high court which is stacked with his appointments won't it? Besides, his track record on this stuff isn't to win, it's to bully into a payout.
