DOCTORS’ union leaders are demanding pressing talks with the Authorities, threatening strikes till 2025 and past in the event that they don’t get the pay deal they need.
However they’ve already walked away from talks on non-pay points, they usually know ministers can’t probably entertain their ridiculous 35 per cent demand.
Docs’ union leaders know ministers can’t probably entertain their ridiculous 35 per cent demandCredit score: Getty
Whereas the union performs politics with the lives of sufferers, you’ll be comforted to know consultants received’t all need to lose pay whereas they stroll out on the NHS.
Senior medics, skilled at taxpayers’ expense and incomes a mean £128,000 a 12 months, will nonetheless be capable of do profitable personal work on strike days — on high of as much as £260 an hour they might have charged the NHS for protecting for hanging junior colleagues.
Nurses who accepted the most effective pay supply the nation may afford confirmed they valued their sufferers above cash.
The Marxist BMA bullies holding the nation to ransom? Not a lot.
DRIVERS are set to obtain a serious enhance at this time when the Competitors and Markets Authority is anticipated to advocate a PumpWatch comparability web site to reveal grasping petrol retailers.
It may see motorists save as much as £8 each time they refill their tanks, if forecourt homeowners are compelled to decrease their inflated pump costs as hoped.
Drivers are set to obtain a serious enhance at this time due to the PumpWatch comparability web siteCredit score: Getty
For years, via our Maintain It Down marketing campaign, we’ve been arguing that the freeway theft rip-off should finish.
Now it simply may.
FEWER than one in ten violent assaults final 12 months resulted in a thug being charged.
In the meantime, in London, the Met Police banned cops working on the weekend’s Satisfaction occasion from carrying a badge commemorating colleagues killed on responsibility.
The Met Police banned cops working on the weekend’s Satisfaction occasion from carrying a badge commemorating colleagues killed on responsibilityCredit score: Getty
Chiefs decreed that some within the LGBT group may take offence in the event that they mistakenly thought the badge, based mostly on a Union Jack, was vaguely much like an emblem with a US flag linked to transphobic teams in America.
So, officer, how’s the try to prioritise real crime-fighting over woke ideology going?
LABOUR yesterday backed The Solar’s Jade’s Legislation marketing campaign to cease killer dads controlling their youngsters’s lives from jail.
Shadow Justice Minister Steve Reed is spot-on in saying it’s “indefensible” that fathers retain parental rights over youngsters whose mums they’ve murdered.
If judges have the facility to take away these rights then they need to accomplish that.
And in the event that they don’t, then the regulation should be modified as a matter of urgency.