Steve Black he/him retweetledi
It's always weird to see these bizarre claims that the committee is "hard left" or "corbynistas".
This is a wave of young people aged typically between 23-35 who see Broken Britain for what it is.
Raising rent, raising house prices, raising energy prices, raising leisure prices, raising taxes.
Meanwhile they look around and get told "not my job", "can't help you", "that exam's gonna be £1000", "cool wedding date, I'm still gonna need you to work", "sorry to hear your dad died... see you 9am".
None of them want any of that.
They want purchasing power comparable to the stake they should have in society.
They want to thrive.
And whilst money is frittered away to other causes, doctors have decided not to wait for the illusionary pot of gold at the end of the rainbow because there has always been another crisis and excuse to erode our pay and conditions to afford the next vanity project.
They're willing to use the mechanisms available to do so.
It's high time that other industries and young professionals re-invent the unions and political parties. Fucking grasp the nettle and take the power that can give them capital.
Re-invent the social contract.
And the media have a responsibility to be honest instead of their ludicrous spin. This 22-29% malarkey is another example of how the country is in a perpetual death spiral borne of tall-poppy syndrome. That figure was over 2-3 years and is actually approximately only ~2-4% in real terms.
Because if you're against the people who go through enormous competition, who focus on upskilling themselves for decades, and who actually go to work, over a ~2-4% real terms increase over 3 years (on a backdrop of 15 years of ~30% erosion) then you need to have a very fucking hard look at yourself and think what do you stand for and what do you want your country to be?
Do you hate aspiration?
Do you hate hard work?
If you do and if hard working doctors' anger fizzles out then next comes the toxic, contagious, corrosive, country destroying cloud of apathy that appears to be so pervasive today throughout the rest of society.
Because what will be the fucking point.
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