Three minutes after ten is the time. A very good morning to you. We're going to be talking nurses strikes in the first hour of the program today, just to give you a quick heads up, because I accept that occasionally I embark upon an introduction to a topic, and you could get halfway through it without being entirely sure what it is we're going to be talking about if I ever get to the end of my introduction. And we will be looking at it from essentially two angles, that of the Royal College of Nursing and that of the government embodied a course by Rishi Sunak who's given an interview to the daily mail this morning the house journal of the conservative party in which he reveals his favorite christmas album is Bublay Christmas, brackets, deluxe brackets,

and he uses lots of goose fat when he's cooking his roast potatoes.

He also pledges that he won't back down over strikes

and other government members reiterate the line that they're happy to talk to nurses,

but not about the thing that they're actually on strike over,

or the main issue that they have actually taken industrial action over,

unprecedented industrial action, generational industrial action.

And it must be said, deeply reluctant, deeply reluctant industrial action.

And that, I think, is the starting point.

Because I think they love it. The. Because I think they love it.

The Tories, I think they love this.

And I think they love it for the same reason

that they thought they loved quasi-Quarteng's disastrous budget.

I think we're dealing with such an intellectually desiccated government now

that they don't really see much further than trying to put on Margaret

Thatcher's clothes. In Litts Truss's case, literally, in Rishi-Sugnack's case, as far as we are aware,

metaphorically, they don't have anything left to sell to you, apart from utterly preposterous

refugee relocation schemes, which cast the government of the United Kingdom in the role of

people traffickers. We will close down the routes run by evil people traffickers by becoming state-sanctioned people traffickers.

Except we'll be paying money to the destination rather than the transportation.

I will get on to that later in the program.

So what do they stand for?

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