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Junior doctors strike back on

As ever an attack on one is an attack on all, sadly this truth and it's consequences are apparently meaningless to many in this country these days.
I'm organising a screening of Pride in April and I'm starting to think this will be a good theme for a Q&A afterwards - how we should all be supporting each others' fights, not just tackling our own disputes. For example, I'm going to look into how my union can support the junior doctors.

Lots of reading and learning to do, obviously... :oops:
 
Lord Camomile, this is a relevant way we can all show support and concern. I know over the years we all at some point have taken a stand and got involved over a wide range of issues. It would be a boost to those less fortunate if by galvanising the nation to stand by the doctors, but more so the NHS and show some defiance and that not everyone agrees with this vicious little cabal that currently occupies the cabinet.
I just wish something would shake the people of this country out of their torpor and wake them before they reach that cliff edge and lose the greatest service left from the formation of our welfare state.
 
As so often happens, the wrong people are on strike here.

In Americas 'fight for $15' is taking place. Home care workers, child care workers, supermarket and fast food workers are on strike.

In Britain 'junior' doctors- who already earn more than most people can ever dream of earning, and will earn even more in years to come are on strike.

Says it all IMHO.
Your saying it certainly says it all. I think you'll find the politics of envy train vis a vis junior doctors left the station a long time ago. Nobody seriously thinks they're greedy overpaid fat cats largeing it up at the taxpayer's expense - that notion only exists in the rather half-arsed (and half-hearted) propaganda exuding from the Department of Health.
 
Any updates at all kb?
Raised voices and lots of tutting or bricks at fifty paces!:)
not seen owt sorry.

this is 'funny' - there was a (short) list of 20 NHS trust chief execs given in Dalton's letter to Hunt who apparently supported the imposition of the contract - on being contacted to confirm, 7 of them (so far) have said they did no such thing...
 
Any updates at all kb?
Raised voices and lots of tutting or bricks at fifty paces!:)
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They'd throw anyone under the bus if political expediency required it. But Hunt is only doing his job, if they moved him elsewhere they'd only put someone else in to do the same thing.
 
As so often happens, the wrong people are on strike here.

In Americas 'fight for $15' is taking place. Home care workers, child care workers, supermarket and fast food workers are on strike.

In Britain 'junior' doctors- who already earn more than most people can ever dream of earning, and will earn even more in years to come are on strike.

Says it all IMHO.

In Britain, eh? I thought the strike was in England. The reason this is worth pointing out is that it does seem to indicate that you haven't really read up very much on the strike.
 
They'd throw anyone under the bus if political expediency required it. But Hunt is only doing his job, if they moved him elsewhere they'd only put someone else in to do the same thing.
Cameron seems to use him to do the shitty jobs, he knows that just about everyone thinks Hunt's slime already so Hunt can be as unpopular as he needs.

Anyway solidarity to the doctors.
 
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There is one area many of us can legally support the doctors with some secondary action. As patients (or customers as they will no doubt soon be calling us) we can refuse any elective treatment at weekends requesting a weekday appointment, thus rendering Hunt's 7-day NHS pointless.

I suspect the whole 7-day NHS thing is nothing to do with patient welfare and a lot to do with 9-5 firms not wanting to give employees time off for medical appointments during working hours. And the whole dispute is a ruse to get doctors to leave the NHS so that they can employ lots of cheaper overseas doctors via private agencies of course.
 
Showed this to a colleague who chuckled and said "let's get Hunt sacked". Sadly, I'm not sure that would stop anything :(

Unless... if public opinion was so against it would the government throw Hunt under the bus as they u-turned?

This generation of Tories seem to think that this is their miners strike, they won't back down and can't afford to be seen to.

eta, hope I am wrong about this.
 
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