Nurses

 So our nursing colleagues finally lost patience with the government over pay. What took them so long? 

This table shows starkly how poorly their pay has kept up with those who control the purse strings.

So nursing pay has risen only just over 11% over the last 12 years compared with almost 30% for MPs.  To put this in perspective inflation over the same period totals 34%, equating to a serious fall in real term earnings for Nurses. House price inflation over the same period exceeds 53%, so even more of their income has to go on simply providing a roof, eating further into their dwindling pay.

Only it seems a few months ago the nurses, and others were being lauded and applauded as "essential workers" putting their lives at risk to keep the NHS from total collapse. They know now that they have to make a stand to prevent this ongoing downward spiral. The various so called "independant" review bodies have totally failed in their function of ensuring fairness and adequate pay, having simply fallen into line as government puppets. 

And in those 12 years corporations continue to make record obscene profits and their CEOs take home seven figure salaries.

And don't even talk to me about fucking professional footballers, who can earn more for kicking a ball around for 90 minutes than a nurse for a year's work.

Oh dear, did you hurt yourself you fucking parasitic pansy!