Xmas turkeys
LIKE turkeys voting for Christmas, NHS doctors yesterday opted to proceed with this week’s strike.
Public support for their action has already plummeted.
A five-day walkout starting tomorrow will likely push it towards rock-bottom.
Abandoning patients in winter during a rising flu epidemic will have a terrible impact on our hospitals.
More operations will be cancelled, more elderly will be left in corridors on trolleys.
Some may even die as a result of the staff shortages.
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But it seems nothing will get in the way of the BMA union and its Marxist leadership.
Forget any notion of caring for the sick. They have made a cold calculation to cause maximum damage.
Having turned their back on Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s new offer on jobs and training, the medics have proved these walkouts are about nothing more than greed.
Sir Keir Starmer — who handed the doctors a massive pay rise last year, in order to supposedly end the strikes — says he is “gutted”.
The PM now needs to set aside his disappointment… and defeat the militants once and for all.
The country cannot afford for him to give in to the BMA hardliners a second time.
Lost youth
ONE in eight young people — around a million — are not in work, education or training and languishing on benefits instead.
That is not just an unaffordable scandal, it is a national tragedy.
Kids have been thrown on the scrapheap by a welfare system that encourages handouts over work.
Former Labour minister Alan Milburn — leading a lengthy review of the welfare system — calls them a “lost generation”.
He’s right, but what is the Government prepared to do about it?
What is urgently needed are tough decisions to get unemployed teens into work.
That means slashing mental health claims driven by online sick-fluencers.
And giving young people the chance to build new lives through jobs.
Hard Labour
LABOUR came to power after winning the support of big business who believed its promises to deliver growth.
After two damaging anti-business Budgets, entrepreneurs and employers have been left sorely disappointed.
Outgoing CBI boss Rupert Soames says he has actually been shocked by Labour’s decisions.
That includes the National Insurance rise and minimum wage increase which make it much harder for firms to employ young workers.
Question: do even Labour’s own ministers still think any of this economic lunacy was a good idea?
