Not just insidious, Steve. It also (erm) strikes me as straight-out counterproductive ....

* Nurses take time and money to train.
* Them Up Top bleat "efficiency savings" and deprive the NHS of money.
* The NHS is understaffed and overstretched (therefore inefficient).
* Nurses start going on strike to make Them Up Top aware that this is not a Good Thing.
* Them Up Top threaten to sack nurses who go on strike.

.... Does not compute. MELON MELON MELON. Out-of-cheese error, and other computational protests to attempting to divide by zero.

On behalf of the rest of the Untied Kingdom, I wanna declare UDI from Planet Headbanger.