Ramping up pressure on the #Tories over the #NHScrisis, consultants are staging a 3 day walkout during the #Tory conference.

This follows the 2 day strike starting today & further #strike action in October.

As Ministers & MPs go on news programmes to express their 'disappointment' in the action(s) & claim their offer to the BMA is 'reasonable'...

ask yourself, who do you trust more: #politicians or #doctors?

This is a crisis engineered in Westminster!

#supportourNHS
#SupportTheStrikes

Following the current #JuniorDoctors strike (yes, I know JDs are misnamed, they're a lot more mature than 'juniors' & have more responsibility), the #Consultants strike last next week will make it a pretty full spectrum of #NHS staff taking strike action....

What is there not to understand?

The #healthservice needs proper funding, well-paid/happy staff (with reasonable conditions) and an an end to the endless budgetary attrition from the #tories.

#SupportTheStrikes
#supportourNHS
#GTTO

Today the latest strike by #JuniorDoctors starts;

a lot of people will be angry about the disruption to the #NHS.

Don't blame the doctors; they've been pushed by the #Tory wreckers until this seems like their only option.

If you need to blame someone for your cancelled consultation, or delayed operation, then make sure you blame the #Tories!

This strike (as with the #nurses previous action) is a direct result of an #NHScrisis caused by Tory defunding!

#SupportTheStrikes
#supportourNHS

The current state of work in the 'Developed world', and we export the worst of this.

'Why UPS Workers Are Ready to STRIKE' from Bad Faith.

If you are working, Join a union and agitate!

https://invidious.privacydev.net/watch?v=3pEXkvehyrk

#Union #SupportTheStrikes

Gillian Keegan says 'Children have been through so much in the pandemic & I can’t think of a worse time to be willingly keeping them out of school'... but then blames the #teachers for the continuing #strike action.

No, they are out of school because of years of #Tory attacks on teachers & a current unwillingness to try and settle the dispute... as always, its never the #Tories' fault, oh no, there's always someone else to blame!

#SupportTheStrikes
#supportourteachers
#GTTO

Yeah, because none of us have ever met an NHS worker before.

Sunak on Twatter:
"Today the NHS is 75 years old.
For me, the NHS is all about the staff who run it. (They looked very surprised when I asked if any of them worked in finance)
I want to introduce you to some of these incredible people" (I don't want to pay them properly though)

Note he managed to get "one of each kind of staff". PR pro, through and through. Or his media manager is, anyway. 🤬🤬

#SupportTheStrikes #FuckTheTories

That's about as close as you're going to get to booing inside Westminster Abbey on an anniversary with such profound importance for us all. Well, not *quite* all. 🤬
From Polly Toynbee on the other place:
"Interesting. Here in Westminster abbey for the NHS 75th loud claps for Keir Starmer walking in, but bare smattering and much silence for Sunak. "
#SOSNHS #FuckTheTories #NHS75 #FairPay #UKPolitics #SupportTheStrikes

Looks like unless the Govt. is prepared to do something meaningful about #Teachers pay & conditions, we are heading towards an Autumn of discontent, with the prospect of a #generalstrike across the entire #teaching profession.

Given the Govt. (backed by the rabid right press) is unlikely to change its stance we need to prepare to support both teachers & parents weather this storm.

To win we need to:
#SupportTheStrikes
#supportourteachers
& do what we can to help

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jul/05/united-front-teachers-could-biggest-strikes-decade-england

More on the sources of #inflation:

Here are the (average) private school fee rises since 2000 - hmmm.... wasn't inflation running below 2% for most of that period?

But, of course, that must be wrong because its those greedy public sector workers who are causing inflation by asking for wage rises.... how dare they!

#SupportTheStrikes
#greeedflation

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This is absolutely spot on and so fucking sad and enraging.. ✊👏👏🤬 🤬😭😭
#SOSNHS #UKPolitics #CostOfVotingToryCrisis #FairPay #EnoughIsEnough #SupportTheStrikes #JoinAUnion #FuckTheFuckingFuckingTories
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WTF??? Tory Laura with a predictably bullshit story. Anyone who's not a Tory MP hate the #NHS? Didn't think so. 😡
I did enjoy seeing that her title has been downgraded to "presenter" though. Not BBC journalist or reporter. Presenter. 🤣🤣🤣
#UKPolitics #SOSNHS #SupportTheStrikes #FuckTheTories
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66068224

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#Solidarity #SupportTheStrikes #EnoughIsEnough #SOSNHS #JoinAUnion #FairPayForAll #CostOfVotingToryCrisis #Greedflation #CapitalistBastards #FuckTheTories https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/02/majority-back-nhs-strikes-despite-disruption-polls-show

@ChrisMayLA6 From an interview with Steve Barclay on GMB:
"- What about reaching a pay settlement with doctors?
- We've reached one with porters.
- Ok, but what about doctors?
- There needs to be movement on both sides.
- Have you moved?
- I won't negotiate on public.
- So what's your plan?
- We've introduced doctor apprenticeships"
So yeah, "plan" is *not* the word I'd use.
#UKPolitics #FairPay #SOSNHS #SupportTheStrikes

Thirteen years of Conservatives being in power and this is what it's come to:

"'I feel guilty for encouraging my daughter to join the NHS': Doctors on the staffing crisis"

https://inews.co.uk/news/health/nhs-workforce-plan-recruit-doctors-staffing-crisis-years-2443183
#UKPolitics #SOSNHS #FuckTheTories #SupportTheStrikes #FairPay

@ChrisMayLA6 A cynic writes:
It'll probably stay in "plan" form, at least until after the election, when Labour will write a different one;
It probably hasn't been costed;
The question of "where to get and how to retain staff" has yet to cross their minds.
#FairPay #SOSNHS #SupportTheStrikes

Finally, finally the #NHS has a #workforce plan which involves a doubling of the training places for #Doctors & #nurses.

This is (perhaps) a decade late, but welcome nonetheless. However, now the Q. is how to retain them once they've been trained?

Here's an idea:
listen to the #strikers & pay NHS staff properly!

as has been demonstrated conclusively by the #Tories defunding of the #healthservice, you cannot have a world class #publichealth system on the cheap.

#SupportTheStrikes

In a statement showing all the political acumen of a Dorries/Gullis lovechild (sorry), check out the weapons-grade stupidity of this guy who *actually wrote a book*.
"'If pay was the most important thing to them, they shouldn't have been doctors in the first place.'"
#FairPay #UKPolitics #EnoughIsEnough #SupportTheStrikes #SOSNHS

The #BMA is raising the stakes; now threatening that all doctors (from consultants & specialists to 'junior' doctors) will be taking #strike action before the next #election if the Govt. do not meet their demands for pay to increased to make up for its historic real terms decline.

Given that #SteveBarclay for now continues to want to play 'hardball' we are heading towards a long(er) period of disruption.

As always remember this all stems from #Tories defunding of the NHS;

#SupportTheStrikes

I see the usual "but they earn loads of money already" argument is being trotted out by government and their supine accomplices in the media against the latest public sector workers to vote to strike. 🙄🤬
#SupportTheStrikes #SOSNHS #JoinAUnion #FairPay #FuckTheTories #UKPolitics

As we head towards a(nother) #JuniorDoctors #strike... once again its worth emphasising that this is a strike that has been directly caused by the #Tories defunding of the #NHS, their callous attitude to the well-being of others & their strategy of driving (rich-enough) #patients into the arms of private #healthcare.

If #RishiSunak or #SteveBarclay actually wanted to reach a deal with the BMA/Junior Doctors they could, but they are choosing not to.

#SupportTheStrikes
#supportourNHS