With the NHS on the verge of mass strikes with the health service already on the brink

of collapse, you might just ask yourself, why do the government just settle?

So no brainer.

No brainer.

On a moral basis, the fact that nurses have been whacked with £5,000 less in their pockets,

their salary slashed since 2010, that in the last year alone, that their wages have gone

down by about £1,800.

If you look at paramedics, their salary down by about £6,000, almost two and a half

£1,000 poorer than they were last year.

If you look at the public health case, the NHS is on its knees, it's in large part because

of attention and recruitment of nurses, one in nine nurses left last year, there are nearly

50,000 nurse vacancies, that's obviously one of the main reasons if you have demoralised

nursing force when they're so low paid, you know, these people who were clapped and

applauded by Tory ministers, including Rishie Senac, from balconies and windows and porches,

they're not heroes, they're not that would be called heroes, they're just well-trained

professionals who do a very, very difficult job who have been paid way less than they deserve

with profound and terrible consequences for all of this.

To fact, that, you know, the economic case, because we're told, oh, it'll drive up inflation,

it'll cause a wage-price spiral.

Inflation's not because by wages going up.

The wages have gone down in this country in real terms.

The longest squeeze, and I say this a lot because it's true since the Napoleonic age, since

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