The Left’s advice to striking junior doctors that they can choose picnicking over picketing is morally reprehensible
Strike shame
NO ONE in their right mind would think it’s OK for doctors to bunk off work for a picnic in the sunshine as patients suffer.
But then the hard-Left activists running the BMA union lost touch with sanity long ago.
Their advice to junior doctors striking from today, that they can choose picnicking over picketing, is morally reprehensible.
It should enrage anyone who cares about the NHS, as it will the hospital chiefs forced to cope without staff and 7.4million on waiting lists worsened by the militants’ fantasy “demands”.
The irony of the BMA warning medics that even manning a picket line may prove too gruelling — and that their “health matters” — is staggering.
What about the health of the genuinely sick during this five-day walkout?
What happened to the sacred oath doctors swear to “do no harm”?
This encouragement to down tools and “spend time with friends and family” would be outrageous even if theirs was a moderate pay claim the Government had rejected unreasonably. It’s not.
They want 35 per cent and the rewriting of history so that doctors, alone among the UK workforce, are fully recompensed for any pay erosion since the 2008 global crash. That is absurd.
The young hotheads in top BMA posts may think they are winning the public’s hearts and minds with this blatantly political confrontation with the Tories.
If so they are a sandwich short of a picnic.
Win-Windsor
CONGRATS to Harry and Meghan on their Hollywood award nomination in the “steaming fiction” category.
Sorry, “streaming” and “non-fiction”.
All that hard work spitting bile at the royals, media and Britain has paid off.
In fairness, their Netflix show got great ratings.
Car crashes do attract rubberneckers.
We’re just not sure how those tall tales and imagined victimhood count as non-fiction.
Still, it could garner them a gong from the Hollywood luvvie set to which they are so desperate to belong.
And if they lose? Well, there’s another hour’s worth of grievance right there.
Foul water
IT stinks that families are now expected to pay yet more to bail out the catastrophic incompetence of Thames Water.
The failing firm’s new bosses insist that higher bills, while inevitable, will fund fresh investment and not its mind-boggling debt payments.
But if it had not borrowed billions, paid lavish dividends and handed crazy salaries to executives, it wouldn’t need to fleece customers further for a basic service they already have a right to expect.
Nationalisation is not the answer. Even less would then be spent on investment.
But how did Thames and the useless regulator Ofwat allow this fiasco to fester?