Comments by "Taffy Terrier" (@taffyterrier) on "Sky News" channel.

  1.  @drjasminehoque  It is factually correct. Do some research.
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  2.  @Freshtoast01  Consultants got 6% bringing their average £130,000 salary up to £137,800. Junior doctors got an average 9% increase bringing their average £55,000 salaries up to £59,950.
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  3. Money Money Money
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  4.  @cup1966wow  NHS doctors are among the highest paid in Europe but provide one of the worst services in Europe.
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  5.  @Wonderkid44  Grade A in 2023 = Grade E in 1980
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  6.  @discool146  No - I suspect anyone who got three Es in 1980 would get three As by today’s standards.
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  7. NHS doctors are among the highest paid in Europe but provide one of the worst services in Europe.
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  8.  @humairaali2426  Only six other European countries pay doctors more than the NHS.
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  9.  @ThatHappyChap  It has everything to do with pay.
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  10.  @ThatHappyChap  If junior doctors go ahead with their proposed strike in July the government should reduce their generous 5% offer to 4%.
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  11.  @ThatHappyChap  If junior doctors prolong their unreasonable strike action into August said 4% offer should be reduced to 3%.
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  12.  @ThatHappyChap  If junior doctors prolong their unreasonable strike actio n into September the government should reduce said 3% offer to 2%.
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  13.  @synx7592  DUMBED DOWN DOCTORS
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  14. Only suckers banged pots and pans for the NHS.
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  15.  @anthonyhull1274  …. dependent on food banks.
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  16.  @Kuj0Jotar0  They are overpaid.
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  17.  @Hoozpoppin  Paying them properly would mean giving them a huge pay cut as they are presently overpaid. The vast majority of dumbed down British doctors would never clear the interview for a job in Australia.
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  18.  @Ben-ng4wt  Doctors are overpaid.
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  19. Become Kay Burley.
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  20. It’s probably Syrian sewage.
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  21. More hard pressed taxpayers money.
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  22. Doctors enjoyed an 18 month holiday on full pay during lockdown.
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  23. For playing Russian roulette with patients lives.
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  24. £29,000 a year basic plus £11,000 overtime = £40,000 in the first year of training
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  25.  @ThespaceDr  5% should have sufficed.
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  26.  @c2vranoutofnames  Doctors pay has risen over the course of the last decade. It has not been cut.
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  27. So they should - Starmer should not have caved in to junior whingers.
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  28.  @ganjamozart1435  a six figure salary is not good pay?
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  29.  @Cadeaux_Man  it doesn’t take much effort to get into medical school in dumbed down Britain.
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  30. Doctors?
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  31.  @stephenturner7949  The ones who don’t speak English and are only here for the benefits.
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  32.  @stevec6427  Australia can pick and choose and is only interested in hiring highly educated, properly trained, competent doctors which excludes the vast majority of dumbed down British medics.
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  33. £37 - 40k for an FY1
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  34.  @adamcunningham2511  Trainee apprentices.
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  35. Junior doctors average basic salary in the UK is £55,000. Consultants start on a basic salary of £86,000.
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  36. They are overpaid.
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  37. WHATABOUTERY ALERT !!! There is no money available.
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  38.  @kweenadafool  Receptionists are unaffected by inflation?
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  39.  @kweenadafool  Neither do first year medical graduate trainees taking their first tentative steps to learn the trade under strict guidance and supervision.
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  40.  @stevec6427  The government have offered junior doctors a generous 5% rise which is 1.5% more than the 3.5% recommendation made by the independent pay review body.
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  41. and poorly educated.
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  42. NHS doctors are among the highest paid in Europe but provide one of the worst services in Europe. British taxpayers are getting poor value for money.
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  43. Make them repay the cost of their “education”.
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  44. Only after he has paid back his debt to society.
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  45.  @HassanPoyo  yet there is no shortage of people wanting to do it - all the medical degree courses are oversubscribed several times over.
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  46. NHS employees are keeping the strikes going
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  47. Amazingly woke.
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  48.  @Bringon-dw8dx  Not many brickies and carpenters on £60k a year.
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  49.  @ThatHappyChap  If junior doctors go ahead with the proposed strike in July the generous 5% offer should be reduced to 4%.
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  50.  @ThatHappyChap  If junior doctors prolong their unreasonable strike action into August the government should reduce said 4% offer to 3%.
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