It’s high time our dedicated NHS were rewarded

Who would you want in the ‘trenches’ with you when the proverbial hits the fan?

Not Sunak, Starmer nor ‘Dumbo’ Davey or any of the other Rolex wearing cretins. It would be the NHS nurses surely. All our lives are in their hands, they were there when we were all hiding away safely indoors during the Covid pandemic and they are always there when we need them, no questions asked.

Pay rise or not they have now been pushed into a threat to strike for the first time in 106 years.

They must love their job because they certainly aren’t doing the job for the cash or benefits.

They are asking for five per cent above inflation which now has 20 per cent less buying power for a senior nurse than it had in 2010.

Not just nurses but other NHS workers deserve better pay, so I say to this government pay them a decent wage and stop giving us all these excuses of not being able to afford it. Take it out of the billions we send abroad in foreign aid and pay to economic migrants. Wake up Health Secretary Barclay and remember ‘charity begins at home’. Don’t keep telling us we can’t afford it, we can.

All the nurses require is to be underpaid a little less because they can’t live just on ‘clapping’.

Get the claim into perspective, if a train driver is worth £70,000/ annum what is a fully qualified nurse or carer worth? Especially when we need them.

It’s not just the Tories that take them for granted either. Labour had 13 years in Downing Street and did no better for them, hence the problem now.

It is time we had a total clear out of Parliament and put a party in with sense and feeling.