Nurses. We're talking about nurses. I say that because we're now at the demonized nurses stage of a crumbling conservative government.

Now the narrative we've all been fed is that nurses going on strike is a threat to our health,

the threat to the natural health service, or because these notoriously greedy fat cat nurses

want their pie in the sky, astronomical pay rises. Now let's just listen to Rishi Senak,

who unfortunately happens to be our prime minister.

And there is a human cost. Alex from Chester has been waiting for a gallbladder operation

for nearly six months. He's in so much pain he's been off school since then. His operation has

already been cancelled twice. His mum, who I spoke to this morning, is worried sick. When she

heard that strikes could be called off, she was massively relieved. She's desperate for the

prime minister to resolve this. All he needs to do is simply meet the nurses. Now Alex's mum

is listening to this. She doesn't want to hear him blaming everybody else. She doesn't want his

usual ducking of the question. She's tuned in now because she wants him to explain what is

he going to do to resolve the nursing strike?

Yes, Mr Speaker, it's not just Alex. There are millions of others across this country.

Millions of others who will have their health care disrupted because of the strike.

Now, the honourable gentleman says to get round the table, but we all know what that means,

Mr Speaker. That is just simply a political formula for avoiding taking a position on this issue.

If he thinks the strikes are wrong, he should say so. If he thinks it's right that pay demands

of 19% are met, then he should say so. What's weak, Mr Speaker, is he's not strong enough to

stand up to the union?

God is pathetic. Now, we should all be unapologetically supportive of our nurses who enter the

profession for one reason and one reason alone because they care because these are the army of

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