Kerrang! magazine / February 20, 1999
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101 Things You Should Know About the UK Tory Government
Thing 24
Nurses work 12-hour shifts. They risked, and in some cases lost, their lives during the pandemic. 14% are being forced to use food banks. We stood on our doorsteps and applauded their professionalism and dedication to their patients every Thursday evening at the height of the Covid crisis. Yet repeated Tory governments have taken them for granted.
Research shows that nurses have suffered real term pay cuts since the Conservatives came to power.
“Nurses’ wages down 20% in real terms over ten years despite raises.…the research suggests that to restore nurses’ real terms salary to 2010-11 levels by 2024-25, a nurse at the top of band five would require a pay rise of 45%, or around 21% each year. (Nursing in Practice: 31/10/22)
What does Steve Barclay, the new Health Secretary, intend to do to help rectify this shameful situation. NOTHING!
According to Barclay, nurses are “out of step” with economic reality, and their request for higher pay is neither “reasonable or affordable".
But when it comes to banker’s bonuses “Steve Barclay almost always voted against a bankers bonus tax.” (www.theywporkforyou.com) The Guardian had this to say earlier in the year.
“This week British bankers will start collecting the biggest bonuses since before the 2008 global financial crisis as their employers fight an “increasingly intense war for talent”. As most Britons face the biggest squeeze on their incomes since at least 1990, already very highly paid bankers are celebrating “particularly obscene” bonuses in the City’s pubs and wine bars.” (16/03/22)
So, for Barclay it’s perfectly acceptable for bankers (the perpetrators of the 2008 financial meltdown and subsequent period of sever austerity) to receive millions of pounds in bonuses but not for NHS staff to receive a living wage.
“In 2020-2021, the NHS doctor workforce revealed that roughly 17 thousand HCHS doctors had left the NHS, and according to the NHS nurse workforce, nearly 30 thousand nurses left. As of the third quarter of 2021, the NHS faces an estimated 110 thousand vacancies, from which about 40 thousand are among nurses. The vacancy rate of the NHS workforce in England stood at 8.3 percent overall and over ten percent among nurses." (statistica: 18/08/22)
For Steve Barclay, paying “obscene bonuses" to bankers to attract the best “talent” into the finical sector is to be encouraged. But to apply the same logic and policy in the recruitment and retention of nurses and other NHS staff is neither “reasonable” or affordable".
Is it any wonder that Steve Barclay has been described as:
“A real nightmare, vindictive, arrogant, a bully, hostile to the NHS and all its works." (See Thing 18)
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Tomar-Re is the Leomon of the Green Lanterns, isn’t he? :C
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It was a secret meeting, but the rumors had been whispered for more than a year. Outrages that had been accumulating all along took shape as evidence. A mother was knocked down the stairs by her cold-eyed daughter. Four damanged infants were born in one family. Daughters refused to get out of bed. Brides disappeared on their honeymoons. Two brothers shot each other on New Year's Day. Trips to Demby for VD shots common. And what went on at the Oven these days was not to be believed. So when nine men decided to meet there, they had to run everybody off the place with shotguns before they could sit in the beams of their flashlights to take matters into their own hands. The proof they had been collecting since the terrible discovery in the spring could not be denied: the one thing that connected all these catastrophes was in the Convent. And in the Convent were those women.
— Paradise (Toni Morrison)
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'It’s far easier to find scapegoats than solutions'
Why do some people in the UK decry any people on benefits, is this down to government policy and some areas of the media. The government are always pushing people into work and there were the dreaded ‘fit to work’ assessments for some persons on benefits and in some of these assessments on appeals it was proven that mistakes were made and some of the mistakes weren’t mistakes but deliberate…
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