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FatticusInch | 12:06 Thu 06th Oct 2022 | News
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https://www.bbc.com/news/health-63150632.amp

In the current climate I reckon it’s a strong possibility.

/The Royal College of Nursing is balloting all of its UK members for strike action for the first time in its 106-year history.
The union is recommending its 300,000 members walk out over pay, with the result of the ballot due next month.
If strikes go ahead, the RCN says they would affect non-urgent but not emergency care.
The government has urged nurses to "carefully consider" the impact on patients./

……just after it removed the cap on bankers bonuses and attempted to increase the wealth of the top 1% in the country?
As a great character once said:
The impudence, the audacity, the unmitigated gall.

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"The country has a difficult winter ahead but the unions will make sure it’s even more difficult." I don't think we need worry too much now that we have a crack team in place with real world experience and the good of citizens at heart. Reasonable negotiations and not knee-jerk reaction will surely be the order of the day.
16:01 Thu 06th Oct 2022
In this country, people who do important jobs like trying to save lives by working in health, or driving vehicles with hundreds of passengers behind them, are not respected and are not considered worth paying well, whereas those with sticky fingers whose job is playing with money for their own gain (and sod the consequences for the low-life) are considered as indispensible and requiring extra money to make them work hard.
//Not on this thread, //

No - but you'll try to drag anything in from anywhere to try to validate your arguments or diss your opponents. You're a twerp.
//In this country, people who do important jobs like trying to save lives by working in health, or driving vehicles with hundreds of passengers behind them, are not respected and are not considered worth paying well, whereas those with sticky fingers whose job is playing with money for their own gain (and sod the consequences for the low-life) are considered as indispensible and requiring extra money to make them work hard.//

What a complete load of tripe - not even worth a response!
Davebro; thanks for your "response". Very well-reasoned and succinctly put.
er - remind me how much train & tube drivers get paid
The nurse who said Tory voters shouldn’t be resuscitated because of what the Tories are doing to the NHS….worked for a private healthcare provider.

She’s a moron.
davebro; err - remind me how much you get paid, and how important your job is.
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//Not on this thread, //

/No - but you'll try to drag anything in from anywhere to try to validate your arguments or diss your opponents. You're a twerp./

Better to advise help for you in my thread than spoil someone else’s.
Your major problem is that you have no arguments, bar using automatic weapons.
Where do you get that mindset from?
Once the unions are overcome tube & train drivers could (and will) be replaced by technology - far easier than driverless cars!

I'm retired on a liveable income. When working I earned about the average wage - but that's neither here nor there is it?
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Careful Deskdiary/Davebro, one of you got a post deleted earlier for using that description.
You post so similarly I’ve lost track so thought it best to cover both bases.
//Where do you get that mindset from?//

What a stupid effing remark - where does anyone get their "mindset" from if "mindset" is actually a meaningful concept?
davebro; I think it was Bertrand Russell who said that you can predict a man's politics by knowing his income. I'm retired also, and I don't know what the average wage was in those days, but I wasn't hard up. Did your job involve willingly doing good for your fellow humans despite your only being on average wage, or was it because that was all you could manage? In my case it was all I could manage, but it was rewarding because it was working on behalf of society - I was lucky.
The best job you can have is one you would do even if you didn't get paid to do it.

I was a computer programmer - we wouldn't be talking here were it not for computer programs.
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//The best job you can have is one you would do even if you didn't get paid to do it.

I was a computer programmer - we wouldn't be talking here were it not for computer programs.//

I was a soldier. We most definitely wouldn’t be talking anywhere if it wasn’t for people prepared to sacrifice themselves in the name of democracy.

Remember:

https://www.scrapbook.com/quotes/doc/2448.html

Basically, you spout utter rubbish and racist views but in the UK you have that luxury because of HM Forces, that’s what it boils down to.

You’re welcome though Davebro, I defended democracy, not you specifically.

//Basically, you spout utter rubbish and racist views but in the UK you have that luxury because of HM Forces, that’s what it boils down to.//

Rubbish - because I usually disagree with you?
Racist - I don't intend to be, can you embarrass me with examples?

Army - good place for those who can't think for themselves, just follow orders. In what way did YOUR service in the army defend our democracy? I don't think the UK's been under attack for a while.
ALL the nurses I know are VERY well paid.. student nurses are students and like ALL students whilst training get less.. but other students get loans etc for 4 or 5 year uni courses and would love a wage ! there is this public myth that they are so hard done by.. NOT true !
the two nurses i know, one is my niece is very well paid. The other i suspect is just as well paid.
If it was my job to discover why 40,000 fully qualified nurses left the NHS, first place I'd look is on the books of the agencies.
Don't get all angry if I'm wrong, it was just a suggestion. For all I know the agencies train their own fully qualified nurses.
^got it in one.
because AGENCY nurses get quite ridiculous remuneration ! ^^^

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