Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "Senior doctors in England vote for two-day strike - but nurses strikes set to end" video.

  1. Are you kidding? Pull your head out
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  2. What they mean when they say it's gone down by 35% is buying power. Their wages have continued to increase and they're very well paid. The nature of inflation is to reduce buying power, for everyone across the entire economy without exception. You do not fix that by increasing wages, that just increases inflation further and drops buying power lower. You fix that by increasing productivity (working harder and more efficiently). If productivity increases sufficiently, you get deflation. This is a shameful, embarrassing and greedy ploy from doctors. This nonsense needs to stop.
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  3.  @KJ-js7pi  Where did you get that figure? The BMA payscale for consultants is ThresholdValue £1 (starting salary)88,3642 (after 1 year completed as consultant)91,1313 (after 2 years completed)93,8984 (after 3 years completed)96,6655 (after 4 years completed)99,4256 (after 9 years completed)105,9967 (after 14 years completed)112,5698 (after 19 years completed)119,133
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  4. Pay is eroded by inflation. When everyone goes on about "real wages" they're talking about the reduced buying power the pound in their pocket has under high inflation. It effects everyone equally and CAN NOT be resolved with wage increases. Increasing wages in this manner is Inflationary, it just reduces buying power even further for everyone even those who didn't get a raise. People demanding raises right now are hurting the entire country. Inflation makes everyone poorer. The answer is to get inflation under control as quickly as possible.
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  5.  @django3422  No it isn't. This is opportunistic behaviour
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  6.  dominionphilosophy3698  What?
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