Ambulance strikes: who will blink first?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Also on the podcast, after the high court ruled the government's controversial Rwanda policy to be legal, is the judgement a complete win for the government?
Cindy Yu speaks to Katy Balls and James Heale.
Produced by Cindy Yu and Oscar Edmondson.
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| 0:17.6 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House shots, the spectator's politics podcast. I'm Cindy you and |
| 0:21.8 | I'm joined by Katie Boes and James Hill are diary editor. So Katie today we are seeing |
| 0:28.2 | ambulance strikes and people are being advised not to do anything too risky. I'm cycling home after |
| 0:32.9 | this. I'm a bit nervous but where is the government with that? I mean clearly they haven't managed |
| 0:37.6 | to prevent the strikes from happening. Yeah this has been the strike there inside government and |
| 0:42.8 | inside Downing Street and they've been the most worried about just in terms of the practical |
| 0:47.4 | ramifications, the severity of ambulance stuff going on strike whereas I think when you look at |
| 0:52.9 | some of these other strikes there are political problems around them and also of course technical ones |
| 0:57.0 | but this is by far the one where there are big concerns and we've seen that and some of the |
| 1:02.0 | wording coming from NHS figures but also the government over the past 24 hours that this could |
| 1:07.7 | have and affect in terms of loss of life because of the strike action. It has not managed to be avoided. |
| 1:14.1 | You do have a situation where in terms of the most serious condition so he had a cardiac arrest |
| 1:18.5 | you was to be able to get an ambulance that is what they've said at least but otherwise you're |
| 1:22.8 | looking at the army stepping in and sometimes with some driving of ambulances but that is not a |
| 1:29.1 | a like for like because they can't do lots of the things that a trained ambulance driver can do |
| 1:33.3 | so it's not a direct replacement and then also suggestions that depending on the problems you |
| 1:38.3 | should get someone else to drive you, what about using a cab. So I think it's a very nervous day |
| 1:43.1 | in Whitehall just in terms of what happens. Yeah and you can see it from the government messaging |
| 1:47.8 | which was effectively yeah I think it will quince and it helped Minister saying if I like just |
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