"Staffing levels are unsafe, those wards are horrendous and the pay is absolutely shocking."
On a freezing cold picket line in Liverpool this morning, with the bright sun bursting over the clear skies, one nurse perfectly and succinctly explained what today's historic strike is all about.
No nurse wanted to walk out on strike today, they desperately hoped the government would listen. They wanted to be with their patients. As one nurse of over 20 years put it: "Nobody believed it would ever come to this, I can't believe we are stood here in this position today."
