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@Drac - thanks. I'll update my risk avoidance strategy to avoid Borders region too! 😉
I’m interested to see how effective the government line plus RW press propaganda actually is this time.
Do we really think they can make the narrative stick this time?
I'm not sure the Gov't actually has a strategy, beyond the anti-union posturing.
They are on a very sticky wicket IMO.
No strike in Scotland so I’m going to throw myself down the stairs
Same. Might even dress up as Princess Di for it.
I'll probably avoid doing this as well, just for these few days...
https://www.unilad.com/news/ww1-bomb-rectum-hospital-evacuation-france-611421-20221221
"Do we really think they can make the narrative stick this time"
I think not. Its much easier to 'other' groups like teachers and even miners but almost everyone in the country knows someone who works on the frontline of the NHS, mainly as most of it IS frontline and it employs 1.3 million people. There is no class barrier either - nurses and paramedics come from all walks of life.
Surely, even the most self serving daily mail reading Tory faithful know that when the chips are down its these people they rely on.
I'll be giving up wearing trousers;
In 1999 in Britain there were 5,945 trouser-related injuries requiring hospitalization.
I’m not sure the Gov’t actually has a strategy, beyond the anti-union posturing.
The government strategy is the same as it always is, to make ordinary working people pay the price for an economic crisis by suppressing wages.
Ambulance crews have been offered a 4% pay rise because the policy is to cut
wages in real terms.
It isn't specifically aimed at paramedics, or nurses, or anyone else in particular, it is a general policy to help the government deal with a crisis which is mostly their own responsibility.
The alternative would be to shift the burden onto the huge profits of the likes of the energy producers and the banks.
Politics is about priorities, and the Tories would no longer be Tories if they changed their priorities.
That last post of Ernie’s needs printing out and putting through every letterbox in the country.
Surrey Hills on the 28th, then if we need to drive ourselves to A&E, so be it 😀
In 1999 in Britain there were 5,945 trouser-related injuries requiring hospitalization.
Zip flies?
I wouldn’t want to be walking anywhere near Spurs’ training ground.
I live quite close and plan to cycle past a few times over xmas, I do where a helmet but even so, I'll be on the lookout.
Just to add, I had a bit of a moment earlier and had to walk upstairs to er, a work meeting.
Mrs K's Ambulance mate popped round because Mrs K has made some chocolate flapjack for her to dish out to her colleagues on Christmas Eve. She's on strike, but curiously was wearing her uniform, and I asked why.
"Because my morals don't extend to ignoring a Cat 1 call, regardless of the size of my pay packet..."
Flippin' 'eck.
Yup. Life threatening cases are still being covered, a change in law means they have to be.
Leaving the house.
Stet that, I’m perfectly capable of injuring myself badly within the house!
Phew, made it back from the pub with fish and chips for two and a mushy peas.
All intact.
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And that unfortunately is exactly what the Gov has been trading on for the past decade and some. That those in the caring professions have a moral compass. Whereas the Tory Gov don't give a sh1t about providing a public service to normal people because they don't have to use it themselves. Same with education, public transport, etc etc.
Yet unfortunately there's a sufficiently large number in this country that vote for them (and read shiite like the Scum, the Daily Heil, etc and take it all in).
Around this time of year I like to play a trick on my roofer neighbour. I pop round when he’s not in and lather up all his ladders with Vaseline.
So thanks workshy ambulance drivers, another Christmas tradition gone this year.