Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "NHS strikes: government U-turns with new pay offer" video.

  1. lol. "We're going to give you essentially the same offer we gave you before the strikes" "Brilliant, this is a great offer, best we're going to get". This is the nursing unions coming to realise there is actually no new money in treasury and their demands have zero chance of success. They're backing down in a way where they try to save face. They never should have gone on strike, the whole thing is a farce. The union bosses across all of these striking unions should all be sacked. People died, people lost years off their lives, people suffered through ailments and have been pushed back on the waitlist for a 0.5% increase over the previous offer. The nurses should all be ashamed of themselves. Edit: Maxine is off her head. She was asked about the fact people died for her 0.5% increase in pay and she quite disingenuously responded with patients dying in the back of ambulances because they couldn't get into hospital fast enough. Unless Maxine is trying to say she couldn't be bothered getting those patients from ambulances because she isn't paid enough (which I don't think she is saying) then it's totally and utterly irrelevant to the strikes. Nursing pay isn't going to fix ambulance wait times. An emergency department like all wards in a hospital is constrained by the number of beds. You don't fix those problems with pay, you fix those problems by building new hospitals or expanding existing ones. That's not going to happen for even longer now because the unions just gobbled it up. That £2Bn could have expanded several high use emergency rooms. If this were genuinely about conditions the strike would be about NHS funding NOT personal wages. The strike was about temporary high inflation which is now calming down and funnily enough that's when the government came to the table with a ceremonial offer and the union bosses gleefully accepted. But watch as the low IQs like Maxine vote the offer down because the unions promised them something that was never possible to deliver anything even in the same range as.
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