Starmer dà un ultimatum di 48 ore al sindacato dei medici sull’accordo

I feel that I can confidently say on behalf of all resident doctors, we don’t give a fuck about his shit deal.

The NHS is being destroyed inside out while Wes Streeting gives out dodgy contracts. This version of Labour isn’t anything close to the old Labour. I suspect Starmer is going to find out how much of the population works in or is related to someone in the NHS in the coming local elections.

The average person struggles to see a doctor on the NHS. There are long waiting times to see a specialist, and even if you ask to see your GP, chances are that you’re going to instead be seen by a doctor substitute (i.e. ‘I’m one of the *clinicians*’, because only the term doctor is protected by law) who has done a two year course to avoid having to actually do medical school and post-graduate training. So people who afford it are forced to go private to see a real doctor.

Up until now, I don’t think many people actually believed that doctors were struggling to find jobs or specialist post-graduate training posts, because it’s fundamentally at odds with their experience of not being able to actually see one. So when Starmer actually publically admits that he’s cutting 4000 doctor jobs as a threat against strike action, I wonder if this will make people finally wake up.

The truth is, this is a manufactured shortage. They are simultaneously preventing doctors from working while filling the NHS with knock-offs.

Streeting is heavily funded by the private health sector, having recieved hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations from them. They don’t care that you can’t see an actual doctor on the free tier of NHS healthcare, which is saturated with physician assistants and various clinician ‘practitioners’. Healthcare in the UK is pay-to-win. The government doesn’t even need to shut down the NHS to fully privatize it. They just need to make it sufficiently ineffective.