Merciless cruelty of striking doctors
YOU’LL never see a poor doctor.
The old saying is borne out by the revelation that striking junior medics can earn as much as £100,000 a year.
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Dr Ross Nieuwoudt, co-leader of the BMA’s resident doctors committee
Remember these are the grasping mercenaries Labour immediately handed a 28.9 per cent pay rise after the mayhem they caused last year.
Sure enough the Marxist militants of the British Medical Association saw this as an invitation to strike for even more and slapped in a staggering 29 per cent pay demand.
The union fanatics use despicable tactics to keep strikes secret from trusts, making it harder for them to plan cover.
Dr Ross Nieuwoudt, co-leader of the BMA’s resident doctors committee, told his members: “You do NOT have a legal responsibility to disclose whether you are striking.’’
This kind of merciless cruelty would make Arthur Scargill proud. Last-minute strikes are bad enough in any public service dispute but in the field of patient care this amounts to a dereliction of duty which the BMA must know will cost lives.
Not all doctors go along with this madness. Almost half of the BMA membership didn’t vote in the strike ballot. Professor Lord Winston, the IVF pioneer and highly respected medic, has understandably quit the union in disgust.
As he says: “Doctors need to be reminded that every time they have a patient in front of them, they have someone who is frightened and in pain. It’s important they consider their own responsibility much more seriously.”
Wise words.
But totally lost on those money-grabbing BMA medics who see patients as collateral damage in their single-minded pursuit of cash.
It makes Zero sense
SIR Keir Starmer seems profoundly deaf to dire industry warnings that his crazy £800billion dash for Net Zero will cripple the economy.
But will the PM listen to his own MPs?
A commission headed by Labour MP Henry Tufnell says eco levies imposed on businesses to curb carbon emissions could destroy manufacturing jobs for good.
These ideologically driven taxes are far higher than those imposed by other countries, undermining our global competitiveness.
They could force giant oil and gas producers to move abroad.
When Britain is mired in financial woes, it is ludicrous to be chasing unaffordable and unachievable climate dreams.
When are you going to see sense and scrap Net Zero, PM?
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