The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #169486   Message #4096453
Posted By: Steve Shaw
07-Mar-21 - 07:37 AM
Thread Name: BS: UK budget 2021
Subject: RE: BS: UK budget 2021
So am I. Nurses were promised a 2.1% increase for the coming year under a settlement made three years ago and enshrined in law. After all the heroism they've shown over the last year, this government has snatched that away from them and given them what is, in effect, a pay cut instead. I seem to recall Johnson standing on the step to applaud them not so long ago. As an arch-Tory, Bonzo, you of all people should understand supply and demand. We are short of 40-50,000 nurses and low pay is a big factor in that. On top of that, thousands of physically and emotionally exhausted nurses are threatening to leave the profession, feeling with some justification that they are unappreciated by this government. A government that can afford to throw hundreds of billions at the economy in a desperate attempt to keep the country afloat can afford to keep its promise and pay our nurses properly.