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Jeez, why am I still trying to explain this: I am not against industrial action, I believe the conditions of service and pay need to be improved - I don’t believe there is any justification for this five day strike when there is no fvcking government to negotiate with. The only outcome from the latest action is to let down patients and shit on every non-striking member of the NHS…and lose support in the public thereby watering down any potential settlement. This isn’t hard to understand.

Labour didn't put Corbyn forward. Entryists took advantage of the lax rule regarding membership/leadership voting to foist a hard left candidate on the party. He had been put forward to engender debate, Tories and Militant/Momentum signed up and obtained a vote they used to ruin Labour. Marxists and Tories made Corbyn leader.

I don’t. I think that’s what most Tory voters think.

I have/had sympathy. This latest 5-day strike is not only ridiculously stupid, it is short-sighted. The argument about inflation is entirely relevant when it comes to optics. Over the next 12 months no one you know will be walking home with anything better than 2% - they needed public support, they have pissed on it.

The timing couldn’t be more stupid - it reflects poorly on Labour in the final stages of the election, the union was pleaded with, five days instead of one for disruption - not to mention the loss of support from colleagues and socialists. It displays a level of ignorance and selfishness that mirrors the fatuous 35% claim. That isn’t starting high to accept lower, it’s taking drugs and making up a number while waiting for pizza. One that will rightly be slapped down against the backdrop of a 2% inflation rate. It plays into Starmer’s hands. Patients, colleagues, traditional supporters of their cause will all be fvcked off at this - and all of them will be happy to see Starmer tell them 3.5% and no more.

доброе утро, comrades

This five day junior doctor’s strike is absolutely pointless. I couldn’t be more supportive of improving their conditions of service and pay - but to go out for five days when there’s no government, and a new one coming in a week? Fvck me. The patients who are going to be messed about again - the lives at risk in already overstretched EDs - the industrious support staff’s lives made hell. Never thought I would say it, but what a bunch of cvnts.

"If I had an argument with a player Jon, we would sit down for 20 minutes, talk about it, and then decide I was right."

It’s one of those rare occasions that I agree with Jon.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/reform-candidate-leslie-lilley-said-he-would-slaughter-migrants-d7rl2dgt6

That's as far as I got

Love it! Now focus on Ronaldo's face

Daughter is becoming a permanent fixture on my sofa so I'm hunting for graduate jobs/training ops for her to boost her along. Milkround.com seems to think offering the role of a teaching assistant as a graduate entry job is taking the piss in the extreme. If anyone knows of a graduate training prog/apprenticeship in HR let me know - unlike me, she's lovely.

Dad: "Hi Julian, I'm going to chat to some reporters." Julian: "Fine, just don't do or say anything to suggest I am and always was a Putin stooge fed information by the GRU." Dad: "Okies..."

Staggering.

Has anyone posted about this? Corbynites high on copium shit in Sunak's lake. This is what happens after 14 years of starving mental health services of funding.

Sell the FA to a business (preferably a billionaire arms company like Lockheed Martin or something) Turn the England fanbase into happy customers Charge £250 a shirt and implement a £1000 membership scheme to buy tickets Job done

I can but apologise to you both yet again.