Saturday 6 March 2021

The Nasty Party Remember

It's not until the Conservative Party do something utterly despicable that people seem to remember just why they are called the Nasty Party.
After a year of praise and clapping them and heaping praise upon the NHS staff, the Government had decided to say thank you to them by giving them a pay-rise of 1%, £3.25 a week.
NHS Providers said that the Government were going back on a long-term plan set out by the government of an annual pay rise of more than 2% for healthcare workers in 2021/22 but the Government are sticking to the 'we can't afford to pay them more' and the 1% is the 'amount set by the regulator' lines.
The regulators, desperate not to be the ones left holding the blame, have come out and said that actually, they only rubber stamp the amount decided by the Government so the 1% is what the Government are recommending.
The largely useless privatized Track and Trace operation got an additional £15bn in the budget. That's 535,000 nurses salaries which makes the sight of Boris Johnson clapping for the NHS last year even more insulting, the same Boris who said 'The NHS has saved my life, no question.'
And yet they still get voted in. Time and again with today's polls showing they have a 13% lead in the polls over Labour which amazes me and makes me wonder just who are these people looking at Boris Johnson and his Governments awfulness and thinking they are doing okay?

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