Comments by "Taffy Terrier" (@taffyterrier) on ""Money Has To Be Found From Somewhere" | Labour Set For £10bn Public Sector Pay Rise" video.

  1. Thatcherism was great until she ran out of other peoples houses, water, gas, electricity, telephone lines, railways etc. to sell off at firesale prices.
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  2.  @nickryder9669  NHS doctors are among the highest paid in Europe.
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  3.  @nickryder9669  It is well documented that France, Spain and Italy pay lower wages than the NHS but their doctors provide a far superior service. The UK is one of the few European countries that pays doctors six figure salaries.
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  4.  @nickryder9669  = gaslit by BMA propaganda. Doctors in the UK have enjoyed regular annual pay rises over the past 14 years. Junior doctors are medical graduate trainees with limited practical experience learning the trade under strict supervision and guidance and are extremely well paid. I don’t know many fruit pickers on a basic salary of £160k.
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  5.  @nickryder9669  If you get a pay rise of 2% and inflation is 3% you still got a 2% pay increase.
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  6. Doctors are overpaid.
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  7. They shouldn’t.
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  8. Doctors salaries haven’t dropped.
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  9. Junior doctors are well paid.
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  10. Thatcher ran out of poor peoples money because she wouldn’t tax the rich.
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  11. NHS workers are overpaid.
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  12. It performs poorly.
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  13. Spot the economic illiterate.
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  14.  @urbanyeti5233  The problem is that the money you would receive is significantly more than the 5% rises in other costs. The 5% rise would be more than any increase in the cost of living.
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  15.  @urbanyeti5233  The problem as I see it is that a 5% rise across the board means highly paid public sector workers receive significantly more than they need to cover their living costs. The “real terms pay cuts” argument only applies to relatively low paid workers who spend most if not all of their weekly wages on essentials - but the public seem to accept the economically illiterate stance that if every penny of someone’s six figure salary is not increased in line with inflation that amounts to an effective pay cut.
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  16.  @urbanyeti5233  The trouble is the public sector employees on £120,000 a year tend to receive double digit percentage pay rises while those on £20,000 a year put up with single digit percentage pay rises. It should be the other way round.
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  17.  @nickryder9669  Junior doctors are medical graduate trainees with limited practical experience learning the trade under strict guidance and supervision and as such are very well paid with unsociable hours premiums including night shift allowance, weekend enhancements and call out charges.
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  18.  @nickryder9669  “real terms pay cuts” are a superficial red herring.
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