Paramedic - I’m on strike tomorrow

bumface said:
And there was me, thinking that words like solidarity and socialism were no longer welcome on this board. I guess that I was wrong. Wouldn't be the first time.
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I still view myself as a socialist. I'd gladly pay tax at a higher rate to rejuvenate the welfare state that these a***holes have spent decades trashing. I'd also close up all the loopholes that allow multi millionaires to dodge paying their tax.

It's just that I'm also a pragmatist and a realist. I back the current Labour leader (sometimes holding my nose) just as I backed the last one, because it's the one and only chance the people of this tarnished nation have of replacing these repellent crooks.
 
I believe we are facing our biggest battle for our freedom in many a generation. Never been a supporter of strikes but my attitude has changed. Lied to about brexit. Lied to about Covid the serious underfunding of the NHS, the same can be said about education and infrastructure throughout.

With you all the way. The time for action is now the time for consigning this shambolic rabble of so called leaders to history.
 
Bobbygee said:
Such an upsetting decision to make, in 18 years of front line duties I never thought it could ever come to this.
This government has tore the NHS apart From day one. Reading the legislation today around rules to strike, spinning it as if we aren’t providing life threatening cover. This is like Putin’s government attempting to use the media as a propaganda tool.
Well the British public aren’t that stupid.
Everyone of my colleagues due on shift will start at shift start time to check the ambulance over and stand outside the station on a picket line with a radio attached to our belts ready to respond to life threatening Emergencies which we will, because that’s what we do,
It’s been reported it’s all about money which is part of the wider problem but this is more to ensure the publics safety. We genuinely believe we have been backed into a corner and run down so much we have no choice. People are dying because of it.
You would not believe some of the horrendous stories and sights I’ve seen.
F..k this government
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Solidarity.
Enoughisenough#
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Bobbygee said:
Such an upsetting decision to make, in 18 years of front line duties I never thought it could ever come to this.
This government has tore the NHS apart From day one. Reading the legislation today around rules to strike, spinning it as if we aren’t providing life threatening cover. This is like Putin’s government attempting to use the media as a propaganda tool.
Well the British public aren’t that stupid.
Everyone of my colleagues due on shift will start at shift start time to check the ambulance over and stand outside the station on a picket line with a radio attached to our belts ready to respond to life threatening Emergencies which we will, because that’s what we do,
It’s been reported it’s all about money which is part of the wider problem but this is more to ensure the publics safety. We genuinely believe we have been backed into a corner and run down so much we have no choice. People are dying because of it.
You would not believe some of the horrendous stories and sights I’ve seen.
F..k this government
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Good luck today, same applies to anyone in the public sector who has been shafted, and the NHS folk have had it worse than anyone, especially with covid and the recovery from that. I know some of us in the private sector have been shafted too (with pay and conditions), but not by the same degree, and there are other options in those sectors for easier "outs". For the majority of us it's not life and death for conditions and pay, but it will be if the NHS is not there (or functioning) to help us in the future.

Anyone with any ounce of sense is right behind you, which fortunately is the majority of people. Those who aren't are largely just the gullible fools following the right-wing media narrative, and the right-wing media don't like their boat being rocked, and the boat is nearly sunk.

Desperate times call for desperate measures and the Tories have had the opportunity to fix this countless times, but they have zero interest in doing so, unless their hand gets forced, and the power taken from them, which you are doing.

I know a couple might have doubts about the strikes and the issues this could cause to care, but it will be 100x worse if we continue to run the NHS into the ground. Some will only see the damage caused if they're forced to look at it, which this will do. Ignorance is not bliss, as people cannot be ignorant to what they may need in the future themselves, and 99.9% of people will need the NHS at some point, and probably an ambulance too. I've only had one ambulance ride, and that was in the US, and that ended up with an 11k bill, which was effectively for a one-night stay in hospital. We need to do all we can to avoid going down that road, and private healthcare will never cover Ambulances/ A&E.

Good to see that Labour are saying they will reverse any laws that the Tories implement regarding strikes.

It's not just about pay, everyone should know that, but here are a few charts to help show how the Tories have screwed the NHS.

The below chart is pathetic, we should be near the top of this list, for both.

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The next chart shows how much the Tories have screwed the NHS.
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The next chart shows how we will all be effected if nothing is done, we need to do an awful lot to get care to catch back up to when Labour were in power, and then it's going to take spending well above inflation to be able to maintain it. More old people = a lot more competition for care, as the requirement for care rises exponentially with age.

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Support the strikes and get the Tories out, everyone.
 
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Only the tories could want to destroy something that is/was the envy of the World.
It's maybe worth bearing in mind how the poor are treated in our PMs ancestral home btw to see how likely it is that he cares.
 
Why am I getting dragged into this @BoroFur - I was whinging previously about the co-ordinated nature of the strikes to f up Christmas after the year(s) everybody had had.

I did also mention that I had more sympathy for the nhs.

Anyway let BobbyGee do what he feels he needs to do. Sounds like it may be working as I expect there will be some sort of resolution one off pay offer coming soon.
 
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