The Resident Doctors strike action starts at 7.00 this morning & you'll have seen the shape of the optical pincer movement across the media;
On one hand, we're told the public are increasingly losing patience with doctors demands (supported by quick polling)...
and on the other, Ministers (and the PM) are calling for the doctors not to play into the hands' of the NHS' enemies & to think of patients.
Its going to get worse... take it from me.
Morning🌄
Just to let you know there are over 100,000 workers on #strike today in Northern Ireland - fighting for better pay & conditions, to save our public services.
All the while, the #DUP and a #Tory Secretary of State are warm, comfy and well-paid!
Using those freezing striking workers as pawns in their game. The DUP are responsible for this, no-one else. Remember that when they come knocking for your vote.
In response to news about UAW (United Auto Workers) securing battery production under the UAW master contract:
Now let's get those batteries into bikes, minerals under the sovereignty of Indigenous peoples, and production into the hands of @UAW unions workers. ✅✅✅
(Post on twitter if you want to boost: https://twitter.com/sambutlerUS/status/1710413981788070088)
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On Wednesday, the #NHS #strikes reach a crescendo with the two separate #Doctors walk-outs dovetailing so all doctors are out on strike.
I know I keep saying this, but its worth repeating.
The #Tories are not only engineering the general #NHScrisis they are goading the Doctors into continued action, to serve the political Tories narrative...
Don't be taken in... this balme for these strikes lies with the Govt.
I was enjoying all of the cosy and heartwarming memefication of Drew Barrymore’s loveliness.
What a difference a day makes. Urgh. She now goes on the list of scabs alongside that asshole Ryan Murphy and the AHS people.
Ramping up pressure on the #Tories over the #NHScrisis, consultants are staging a 3 day walkout during the #Tory conference.
This follows the 2 day strike starting today & further #strike action in October.
As Ministers & MPs go on news programmes to express their 'disappointment' in the action(s) & claim their offer to the BMA is 'reasonable'...
ask yourself, who do you trust more: #politicians or #doctors?
This is a crisis engineered in Westminster!
Healthwatch England concludes that the continuing #NHS #strikes compounded an already severe issue of #patients waiting for treatment & its impact on wellbeing.
Indeed, while in the short-term they are right this may make things worse, lets not forget that political pressure (short of striking) has had little impact on the #Tories defunding of the NHS which is a direct cause of delays.
This is a battle for the health of our country.
In just over an hour the #NHS #radiographers start their #strike.
I know I keep saying this, but if in the next couple of days your #treatment is delayed due to their action, please remember no-one in the NHS wants to harm #patients.
The strikers have been backed into a corner by an aggressive policy of defunding the NHS carried out by a party contemptuous of our #HealthService!
Lay this at the #Tories door and...
Following the current #JuniorDoctors strike (yes, I know JDs are misnamed, they're a lot more mature than 'juniors' & have more responsibility), the #Consultants strike last next week will make it a pretty full spectrum of #NHS staff taking strike action....
What is there not to understand?
The #healthservice needs proper funding, well-paid/happy staff (with reasonable conditions) and an an end to the endless budgetary attrition from the #tories.
Today the latest strike by #JuniorDoctors starts;
a lot of people will be angry about the disruption to the #NHS.
Don't blame the doctors; they've been pushed by the #Tory wreckers until this seems like their only option.
If you need to blame someone for your cancelled consultation, or delayed operation, then make sure you blame the #Tories!
This strike (as with the #nurses previous action) is a direct result of an #NHScrisis caused by Tory defunding!
Gillian Keegan says 'Children have been through so much in the pandemic & I can’t think of a worse time to be willingly keeping them out of school'... but then blames the #teachers for the continuing #strike action.
No, they are out of school because of years of #Tory attacks on teachers & a current unwillingness to try and settle the dispute... as always, its never the #Tories' fault, oh no, there's always someone else to blame!
Looks like unless the Govt. is prepared to do something meaningful about #Teachers pay & conditions, we are heading towards an Autumn of discontent, with the prospect of a #generalstrike across the entire #teaching profession.
Given the Govt. (backed by the rabid right press) is unlikely to change its stance we need to prepare to support both teachers & parents weather this storm.
To win we need to:
#SupportTheStrikes
#supportourteachers
& do what we can to help
More on the sources of #inflation:
Here are the (average) private school fee rises since 2000 - hmmm.... wasn't inflation running below 2% for most of that period?
But, of course, that must be wrong because its those greedy public sector workers who are causing inflation by asking for wage rises.... how dare they!
Finally, finally the #NHS has a #workforce plan which involves a doubling of the training places for #Doctors & #nurses.
This is (perhaps) a decade late, but welcome nonetheless. However, now the Q. is how to retain them once they've been trained?
Here's an idea:
listen to the #strikers & pay NHS staff properly!
as has been demonstrated conclusively by the #Tories defunding of the #healthservice, you cannot have a world class #publichealth system on the cheap.
The #BMA is raising the stakes; now threatening that all doctors (from consultants & specialists to 'junior' doctors) will be taking #strike action before the next #election if the Govt. do not meet their demands for pay to increased to make up for its historic real terms decline.
Given that #SteveBarclay for now continues to want to play 'hardball' we are heading towards a long(er) period of disruption.
As always remember this all stems from #Tories defunding of the NHS;
In advance of the #JuniorDoctors' strike, we need to be clear what is going on here.
A group of #health professionals have been pushed & pushed until they see no alternative but to strike; while a Govt. that is trying to find ways of distracting us from what is really going on will seek to blame the #strikers for the disruption.
So:
The #Tories have engineered the #NHScrisis, of which these strikes are merely a symptom.
#SupportTheStrikes
#supportourNHS
#GTTO
& revive of #healthservice
@ChrisMayLA6
Yes!
These are the people we clapped for
...who we celebrated in the Olympic opening ceremony
...who had record low wait times and high approvals (until the Tories)
#ToriesUnfitToGovern
#SupportTheStrikes
#supportourNHS #SaveTheNHS
As we head towards a(nother) #JuniorDoctors #strike... once again its worth emphasising that this is a strike that has been directly caused by the #Tories defunding of the #NHS, their callous attitude to the well-being of others & their strategy of driving (rich-enough) #patients into the arms of private #healthcare.
If #RishiSunak or #SteveBarclay actually wanted to reach a deal with the BMA/Junior Doctors they could, but they are choosing not to.
Save the NHS. Support the Jnr Doctors. Support the Nurses. #InternationalNursesDay #BloodDonor #TonyHancock #WhatstheBleedingTime #SirLancelotSpratt #SupporttheStrikes #GTTO #FBPE
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