Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "Nurses to stage 48-hour strike in March as pay dispute escalates" video.

@tezinho81 No, the UK is broke in the way that it's taking loans to pay for ordinary basic services, and paying high interest on those loans. Revenue from taxes is significantly below expenditure. The budget is in a ~£500 billion, with a B, deficit. That means every YEAR half a trillion dollars of new debt is added. The UK is even taking loans to pay interest on existing loans. This all started in 2000 under the Blair labour government, and the Tories haven't fixed it. Because the truth of the matter is no budget passes the house without both sides of the house saying ok.
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Oh noes we kicked and screamed and threw out little tantrum but for some reason money wasn't thrown at us, and I was hoping to go on holiday next month. So now we're going to throw an even bigger tantrum and people will die because of it so surely they'll give us more money When are these spoilt upper middle class brats going to get it through there heads, there's no more money for pay. The longer this goes on the more disgusting RCN appear. Please don't insult our intelligence with this nonsense about vacancy and retention rates, which has nothing to do with pay and is a complex social issue which will take at minimum 4 years to solve because you have to train the young people and get them interested. More likely longer though because there's significant changes that need to be make socially first. Nursing isn't the only under staffed profession, every OECD nation has a skills shortage list, every single one. All of them have trades, seniors carers and healthcare staff on their lists. It's an aging population ans universities have convinced everyone they have 1) go to university and 2) to get one of a small number of degrees to be successful in life. What do you all expect? The only real solution is immigration but no one wants to fill their wards with people from developing countries. Grow up and get back to work
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@stephenwalker2924 No
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Let's stop pretending this is about the NHS, because it's not. It's about the pockets of nurses whom think they're special after being treated that way during lockdowns. It's about nurses upset they can't afford second holidays and other upper middle class junk. This isn't about the NHS, the RCN are actively destroying the NHS and risking patient lives in the process. You want to talk Ukraine funding? That shouldn't be happening either but it's being funded from existing foreign aid/military budgets and from borrowing. Yes, British tax payers will be paying for Ukraine for decades to come. The UK is genuinely bankrupt. It's been borrowing money to pay it's basic bills for the last 23 years. If you want more funding to public services, you're going to have to pay significantly higher taxes. 32% base rate gets the UK to break even, that's a 8% tax increase. To fund services as they are to a higher degree you'd need even higher tax increases than that. Are you on board for those increases? Funding isn't the cause of vacancies, that's a larger, complex social problem effecting hundreds of industries. The nurses need to stop throwing their little tantrum and get back to work.
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@Christinebanks11 The Donbas region holds several trillion pounds worth of untouched oil and gas reserves. It resides under the towns and villages of the region. It's the sparking point for the 2014 coupe, the sudden yankville support of said coupe, the murder by Ukraine of more than 14K of it's own citizens in the 8 years following, in the attempt of Donetsk and Luhansk to secede and immediately following those attempts ultimately in the yankville led war itself. Giving this money to Ukraine means you can leverage it against Ukraine if they win to gain cheaper oil and gas for the UK. More importantly though many of our political leaders in the countries supporting Ukraine directly have personal or family help investments in the Ukrainian company granted extraction rights for the territory.
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