Nurses voting to strike nationally would be an absolutely damning indictment of a UK Conservative Government that’s lost the confidence of NHS staff and the patients they treat.
The first national walkout in the history of the traditionally moderate Royal College of Nursing is good, caring workers driven to industrial action by Tories who clapped them during Covid then clamped their pay way below inflation, reducing the living standards of people earning far from a fortune.
Blame is with the Government, not nurses taking what they feel is the only option left open to them. Abuse anyone for too long and they’ll eventually bite back.
Strikes will be averted if the Conservatives pay fair, giving nurses a decent wage rise. And if they aren’t because they don’t, from Rishi Sunak down we will all know where guilt lies.
That it’s come to this is a tragedy driven by short-changing nurses who deserve better from a country that must match praise with pay.
Rishi at COP27
U-turning Rishi Sunak attending the UN climate emergency summit in Egypt will be Conservative greenwash unless the Prime Minister is a loud, clear, determined voice to save the world from catastrophic damage.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warning the planet’s sending a distress signal is a call that must be heeded with actions as well as words when the past eight years are likely to be the warmest on record.
Reducing emissions, insulating homes, expanding renewable energy, switching to electric cars and scores of other changes will be good for Britain and the earth, guaranteeing a sustainable future.
The question isn’t whether we can afford going green when the answer is we can’t afford not to.
I'm A Celeb's biggest creepy crawly
I”m A Celebrity returning to our TV screens last night wets our appetite for what promises to be a vintage series of the jungle show.
Ant and Dec are warming up for the biggest creepy crawly in the show’s history when Matt Hancock, a disgraced former Health Secretary, joins the campers and is forced to eat unsavoury cuts of kangaroo by viewers wanting revenge for years of Tory torture.
