Our country is virtually on it economic knees, energy and food process are rising. The crumbling edifice of the National Health Service continues to crumble long after the Covid ‘pandemic’ was declared over, and unrest is breaking out across Europe in addition to a protracted war. In at least one country, a government has been overthrown by a popular uprising.
My profession—I am a Registered Nurse—played every sympathy card at its disposal during the two years of the Covid panic; milked every drop of praise, sympathy and banged saucepan and crushed dissenting voices who spoke out in contravention of the Covid narrative. Some prominent nurses had the temerity to speak regularly on the mainstream media to tell us all what a hell of a time they were having, sitting against the backdrop of an empty Nightingale hospital. They mumbled their moans from behind face masks, urged widespread uptake of an experimental vaccine and never let on that a great many of them were sitting twiddling their thumbs in NHS hospitals which had been all but completely closed in an effort to ‘save them’. Thankfully some of my fellow nurses had time to put on song a dance routines and to make Tik-Tok videos for our entertainment. Talk about ‘cocking a snook’.
Now the hospitals have been ‘saved’ they are reluctant to provide a full service to patients, many dying ironically as a result of their local hospital having been ‘saved’. They continue to implement mask mandates and refuse to allow families to see their loved one. We no longer hear much about this as it is no longer news and we now have a general election to distract us with such a grim array of candidates that I tend to agree with Peter Hitchens who, when asked why he is not writing about the election said: “What is your favourite disease?”
So, against this background of economic misery and existential crisis, having been paid in full throughout the duration of the ‘pandemic’ while others were furloughed—if they were lucky—or lost their jobs my fellow nurses have decided that they need more pay. They have come out in sympathy with rail staff and bin men and, unless they receive a 16% pay rise they are threatening to strike. There are two significant problems here and the first is that the National Health Service seems so paralysed in the wake of Covid-19 that if the whole service shut down again then they run the risk that the general public may not notice. But the other problem is that nurses are the largest single group of employees in the UK. We are already facing galloping inflation—largely as a result of policies they supported—that such a pay rise can only be met by printing more money and adding to inflation. On the one hand we’ll have to fund the pay rise and on the other hand suffer the inflationary consequences as prices rise even further.
I have no doubt a modest pay rise is deserved by nurses but even if they were asking for a modest one, this is not the time. We are reaping the harvest of lockdown in the shape of increased excess deaths, millions of people have surrendered to the vaccine propaganda and now, if they are lucky, have side-effects; many have died. People were forced to give up their lives and loved ones for months on end to save the organisation in which they are employed and now my colleagues have the temerity to ask us for more. I used to say that I was proud to be a nurse. I think that the public is also losing patience.
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