NHS will flatline if juniors strop

AND SO they’re back - those greedy junior doctors who since 2022 have been on strike 11 times, resulting in 1.5million cancelled appointments — and still they’re peddling the lie that the strikes were never about the money but all because they cared about the NHS and patients’ lives.

- Carole Malone

And the minute this craven Government came to power, one of the first things it did was cave in to the execrable BMA union — jam-packed with leftie militants and activists — and stuffed those doctors’ mouths with gold (a quote from Nye Bevan, not me). More specifically it gave them a 22% pay rise, which the stupidly naive Wes Streeting gave them with no strings attached about not coming back for more.

Now, having already been given an inflation busting 5.4% pay rise for this year — more than the consultants and nurses are getting — they’re now demanding 30%. Which proves all their moralising and noble protestations last year about wanting to save patients’ lives, and the NHS, were just tosh. This is all about greed and a weak Government who the BMA believes will cave into its outrageous demands because it’s done it before.