Demand a decent pay rise for the NHS

So the Government has recommended that NHS staff in England should receive a derisory 1% pay increase this year …. see here.

These are the people that have fought on the front line for over a year, literally putting their lives at risk for the rest of us.

A hypocritical "clap for carers" in Downing Street by Johnson and Sunak followed by a "slap for carers" ....

Graeme Bandeira is the cartoonist at The Yorkshire Post.

The Government disingenuously (pathetically) claims that a 1% pay rise for NHS staff is all that can be afforded.

Brexit has apparently been "done" according to this Government so why isn’t that £350m a week for the NHS now available to fund a pay rise for NHS staff and all the other investment required? Has there been some unexpected problem?

Oh, it appears that the UK Government has unilaterally decided to suspend the so-called benefits of Brexit. The "sunlit uplands" are shrouded in cloud and fog. And apparently, it's all the EU's fault for insisting on “Brexit means Brexit”.

Brexit .... the vote to take back what we never lost in order to lose everything that we had.

At Prime Minister’s Questions in May last year, Johnson said: “We will want to see our fantastic frontline workers paid properly. That is, I think, the best way forward. I want to see our NHS staff paid properly, our NHS supported.”

So he lied in respect of the benefits of Brexit and he lied in respect of his support for the NHS. 

Who would have thought it from such an honest and trustworthy politician?

Instead, the Government can find not just one “magic money tree” but a massive forestry plantation to …..

• Fund the £37 billion malfunctioning “Test and Trace” system

• Fund the ecological vandalism that is HS2 and already costing in excess of £100 billion

• Fund the “levelling up” of constituencies which vote Conservative and which, on the whole, don't require “levelling up” 

• Fund the luxurious refurbishment of Downing Street and a new media briefing centre

The list goes on and on and on.

And don’t even get me started on the corrupt procurement of Covid-19 related contracts, the billions of pounds awarded to friends, supporters and donors to the Conservative Party, many with limited or nil experience or qualifications to provide the services or equipment required from them.

For a funny take on what is an appalling decision by this appalling Government ....

Woman who thinks 1% pay rise for NHS is fine because they got clapping pic.twitter.com/sEJhxBCEWY

— Rosie Holt (@RosieisaHolt) March 6, 2021

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