Well, as always when a Govt. & top managers have lost trust of a public sector work-force, and fail to settle a long running industrial dispute, the next step is pretty much always the consideration of a ban on striking altogether.
So, you'll be unsurprised that NHS senior managers, after three years of on-off conflict with Resident Doctors, are asking Wes Streeting to consider a legal ban on strikes by doctors. Streeting has so far demurred but how much longer?
@otfrom @raymierussell @ChrisMayLA6 Given the level of vacancies in the NHS, I think we've been there for a while.
Problem is that this is accelerating the move to privatisation, and the creation of a two-tier system, moving from a "strongest shoulders cary the most" to a "only if you can afford it" system.
Which may well have been the plan all along, certainly on the right (and that includes Blue Labour).
They've needed a name change for some time
I've been referring to them as the Capital Party for about a year.
And would that be the final straw that leads the unions to go looking for a better party to give their political fund money to?
Yes, this was my thinking too....
How much of the Employment Rights Act 2025 is still waiting on commencement orders? I guess until that's all done and dusted, ministers have the unions over a barrel.
@ChrisMayLA6 I'm of the view that anyone who suggests doctors shouldn't be allowed to undertake industrial action shouldn't be allowed healthcare of any description.
Not just limited to operations in NHS hospitals- nothing in private hospitals, no ambulances, no therapies, no GP visits, not even aspirin for a headache or a plaster for a cut.
I honestly don't see this as a *less* extreme view than theirs.
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