Vote No, here’s my take.
We’ve done this before. September 2024, we accepted a deal on the promise it was the start of a journey to pay restoration. Streeting had agreed that the DDRB would report by the start of the 2025/26 financial year. It didn’t. It came in at 5.4% and he called it enough. We went back on strike because we trusted a headline and not the detail.
Now here we are again. An offer dropped at the last minute, strikes action called off, and the full terms still not published. That is not a coincidence. Releasing headlines without substance, under time pressure, is a tactic. It creates exactly the uncertainty that nudges people toward Yes. Don’t let it.
The 4500 jobs are not new. They appear to be existing LED posts repackaged as NTNs. That’s not solving the training bottleneck. That’s renaming it.
FPR is not in this offer. There is no timeline. No mechanism. No commitment with substance.
What’s even more concerning is a union only publishing headlines, whose interests are being served?
Each round of strike action costs circa £300m.
There’s been 16 rounds of strikes in all.
That’s about £4.8bn.
Full pay restoration for residents would cost treasury circa £1bn.
Not tabling a credible offer to settle is what’s “unrealistic, unaffordable, and unsustainable”.
I have not seen a single mainstream media outlet give this the attention it deserves.
Israel blew up an entire Lebanese town, an ancient place. It should be headline news. There’s footage of it happening.
Imagine this was your town, and you saw every building blown up by a terrorist army to prevent you from ever returning. You would at the very least expect wall to wall coverage. Instead it passes without a word.
It’s not the only town Israel has blown up. And sadly it probably won’t be the last.
'When I took office I was struck by the mismatch between the numbers of resident Drs & available training places. My commitment to you remains that this is too important to treat as a transactional matter.’
-Wes Streeting MP, before making it a transactional matter
"You'll barely notice your student loan repayment when you get paid."
That was the line we were fed at school, too - at the age of 15/16 when we didn't really know any better.
How is it fair that a student accumulates has to pay more than they borrowed for literally decades?
Dr Sham is an oncologist who is also a cancer patient.
She was seen in clinic by a PA who was introduced as a doctor & who chose not to correct this, thus masquerading as a doctor when they were not.
Please read how this made her feel.
And ask why @gmcuk is pushing this 🤷♀️
30 years ago, over 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were murdered in the Srebrenica genocide.
Today, politicians will say "never again". But they are letting it happen, again, in Gaza.
We remember all victims of genocide, and vow to build a world that respects the humanity of all.
The Lineker case is very illustrative. If you oppose the establishment you will have every move scrutinised and framed in bad faith until they eventually get rid of you. If on the other hand you support it there is no upper limit on the bigotry you can publicy engage in.
BREAKING: DIRECTOR OF ‘NO OTHER LAND’ BEATEN AND ABDUCTED
A group of Israelis just LYNCHED Hamdan Ballal, Director of the Oscar winning movie "No Other Land."
Soldiers INVADED the ambulance he called and TOOK him.
This is what the scum state of lsraeI does to truth-tellers
Today, I got my job allocation as an incoming doctor. After 9 years studying at Cambridge, a PhD, and scholarships for ranking high up in my cohort, I’ve been placed in Northern Ireland - hours away from any friends or family and one of my lowest choices. #NHS#FY1#UKFPO
Absolutely abhorrent.
This trust apparently spent £3.5m of all our money to attack NHS staff.
Doctors, and everyone working for the NHS, need to see this.
Next time your local NHS management try to guilt or otherwise coerce you into doing extra work, remember this.👇🏼
Say his name Shaban. The man, the human, the soul behind the photo seen around the world. The man who was burnt alive by an evil regime, while being attached to an IV in a hospital.
The word war crime doesn't even begin to cover this. He is not a number. Not one single person murdered is.
His name was Shaban.
May he rest in peace and rise in power.
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If there were videos of children being burnt alive while still on IVs in hospital tents in almost any part of the world, it would be the only headline today.
But it’s just Palestinians in Gaza again. May every criminal who has participated in this evil burn for eternity. Ameen
The world could have stopped the genocide in Gaza.
Instead, our political leaders allowed Israel to act with total impunity.
That is why they are now murdering hundreds of civilians in Lebanon, putting millions more lives across the region at risk.
When will our government wake up to the horrors they have normalised? When will they call out this reckless aggression? Or do Arab lives not matter?
We need a full arms embargo to Israel and economic sanctions, now. Our common humanity demands nothing less.
Our lawyers have written to the General Medical Council (GMC) to say they have acted unlawfully, by failing to set safe and lawful practice measures for AAs and PAs.
We are seeking legal challenge on three grounds.
The costs of fighting this are considerable though, and we need to raise up to £500,000 to take on this case and ensure patients get the care they expect.
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