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@Mk3Gabs @ArsenalBallots Oh mate. That sounds grim.

@MSH446 @ArsenalBallots seen the amount of tourists there this season on midweek tbh one can hope anyway, ive made 30 games this season as a red member however 7 of those 30 was at away games in the home end even had to go in the citeh end for last Sunday painful 😒

I managed to get psg / Real Madrid last year so never say never but if you want a ticket for Burnley via the exchange against all the bots You’re gonna need to put in weeks and sacrifice your mental health, that’s the hard true and you need to go into it accepting that 99% you’ll fail, 1% you’ll get it

@Mk3Gabs @ArsenalBallots If that's what you're hoping for, you're going to be very disappointed. That's not going to affect availability. Last game of the season at home. Potential trophy lift. It'll be the midweek game with the least tickets made available for exchange.

@ArsenalBallots could do with us progressing in these comps and the dates being moved to midweek then if wont be as much a issue, we all know our fanbase hates midweek kick offs lol

@paulmilne @ajwillshire @v_j_freeman It's the UK wants to restrict its wage rises solely to the lower paid and not to the higher paid - that is fine. But there are costs and consequences to that. As we're seeing with the same approach with the minimum wage and national wage compression. ifs.org.uk/articles/minim…

@paulmilne @ajwillshire @v_j_freeman 2008 isn't a misrepresentation. You could start that chart at any point in the 2010s and the fundamental point still stands - they are not as high in the percentile distribution as they used to be. This is a fact not in dispute and has been covered here: ifs.org.uk/articles/pay-c…

"Funding cuts"? All we ever do is pour more money into the bottomless pit of the NHS, rarely with anything to show for it.

@ajwillshire @paulmilne @v_j_freeman (... And consequently then end up with larger pay packets, akin to their colleagues in Australia and the USA.) All I would say is be careful what you wish for. abc.net.au/news/2025-11-2…

@ajwillshire @paulmilne @v_j_freeman It's the old guard who want to keep the NHS. Comes from an altruistic place to be fair. The younger doctors are very much aware of how the public is increasingly hostile to them and have no qualms with seeing the public have to pay more for healthcare with alternative systems...

@outroparadiise Give it to Fabian. Won as many games and deserves a torrid time after his nonsense speeches on time wasting when Brighton are no saints in that department.

how are we gonna escape this time ffs

@paulmilne @ajwillshire @v_j_freeman Which is fair enough. But it's quite obvious what they are going to do in due course if that continues in terms of where they spend most of their time. Notwithstanding the fact that A&E doctors and plenty of other consultants don't have the option of private work...

@paulmilne @ajwillshire @v_j_freeman Would genuinely recommend reading the DDRB reports. Paying particular attention to the international comparisons. DDRB this basically said that consultants base pay had fallen, but it's okay because many of them make it up in private earnings elsewhere. gov.uk/government/pub…

@ajwillshire @paulmilne @v_j_freeman Also you can argue that the "gold-plated" final salary scheme makes it a great job (it doesn't appear to be stopping them leaving for Oz) but unless the current resident doctors joined before 2012, very few of the residents going on strike will have that type of pension scheme.

@ajwillshire @paulmilne @v_j_freeman All pension schemes were devalued in 2015 by changing to a career average scheme. Which leaves women in particular (medicine is becoming more feminised) worse off compared to before.

@paulmilne @v_j_freeman @ajwillshire 1. You could start the graph in 2024 and wages for the average person will have risen more than doctors. 2. The argument that job security means it's okay to throttle pay isn't a good one. 3. Pensions don't recoup the loss relative to what drs could earn in the private sector.

@MSH446 @v_j_freeman @ajwillshire I wonder why this graph starts in 2008? Also job security, pensions?

@asentance @Emmabarnett @BBCr4today So they should just suck up the throttling of their pay? Fairly certain the junior doctors who swan off to Australia isn't a great outcome for patients either.

Good to hear @Emmabarnett on @BBCr4today this morning grilling the doctor’s union representative about their Easter strike. While many public sector workers think they are entitled to more pay, harming people who need hospital care is not acceptable conduct from our NHS doctors.

@v_j_freeman @ajwillshire Yup, because their wages are still being throttled relative to the rest of the country. Those who don't like it can leave of course, but that will do wonders for NHS productivity too.

@ajwillshire We had to have the single biggest set of tax increases in over 30 years to increase funding to the NHS & they’re still striking.

@lunbeato @DrEilidhMaria So when they've made their bank and go, industrial action will be more impactful. There'll be proportionally less people taking up these locums. Why would you take PLAB to take a trust job and locum here for two years and leave when you can sit the USMLEs, match and climb there?

@MSH446 @DrEilidhMaria That’s assuming they will stick around for the 5yrs . Making bank right now is more important to some .

@finnmac79 @d_magpie @Debicemeler2011 @TheBMA @wesstreeting You Brits are obsessed with £100k like it's a magic number. £100k now in 2026 isn't the same as £100k in 2016 - it's worth £71k in 2016 money. Call them greedy or whatever but the pay of most of the country has risen in real terms, not for consultants who have better options.

@d_magpie @Debicemeler2011 @TheBMA @wesstreeting I’ll take that as a yes 😉 what’s the world come to when public sector workers on £100k plus, down tools demanding more money!

Resident doctors have been left with no choice but to strike. Weeks of negotiations with the Government have failed to deliver enough progress on pay, with the goalposts being moved at the last minute. We have called six days of industrial action to make the Government listen, stop the game playing, and come back with an offer that delivers fairly on both jobs and pay.