Wednesday, 21 March 2007
Pay Rise - What Pay Rise
As is so often the case, Nurses in the UK have been shafted by the Government.
With inflation at 3.5% - and rising rapidly - we've been awarded what amounts to 1.9%
OK, hands up who expected more ....
With an excess of nurses at this time, due to an overprovision of education (still increasing last academic year), the government knows that they have got away with it again, despite all the kind words and genuine support for nurses that exists out there.
But, as ever, short term thinking by a short term bunch of cheap crooks. Yes, there is an election coming one day, and it's close enough for nurses to remember. Not 'New Labour' care, of course. But what will get them in the end is the downturn in nurses that will happen within a few years; they have guaranteed that no intelligent teen will enter nursing, just as the major retirement wave hits the profession.
Stupidly, they've done this just after cutting off the theft of nurses from developing nations, and are relying on stealing from the new members of the EU - but that is bound to fail, as far too few of them can speak enough English to get by. Sure, they'll try anyway - but having stirred up anti-immigrant feelings, that one will fail.
Nobody likes being shafted time after time; but at least we get to laugh at the idiots who are ruining the NHS one more time. Where do they find these people?
It is unlikely, of course, that this years stupidity will whack Gordon Brown in the eye, despite his native Scotland choosing to be more generous than the England and Wales bosses. But I suspect he's miscalculated.
He was probably intending to be mean - sorry, 'prudent' - this year, allowing him to appear generous next year, when the election is much closer. But with inflation beginning to slip from his grasp, he won't have that safety net. So he'll be even tighter next year. And that will end his 'honeymoon period', assuming it lasts that long. ¶ 01:44
With inflation at 3.5% - and rising rapidly - we've been awarded what amounts to 1.9%
OK, hands up who expected more ....
With an excess of nurses at this time, due to an overprovision of education (still increasing last academic year), the government knows that they have got away with it again, despite all the kind words and genuine support for nurses that exists out there.
But, as ever, short term thinking by a short term bunch of cheap crooks. Yes, there is an election coming one day, and it's close enough for nurses to remember. Not 'New Labour' care, of course. But what will get them in the end is the downturn in nurses that will happen within a few years; they have guaranteed that no intelligent teen will enter nursing, just as the major retirement wave hits the profession.
Stupidly, they've done this just after cutting off the theft of nurses from developing nations, and are relying on stealing from the new members of the EU - but that is bound to fail, as far too few of them can speak enough English to get by. Sure, they'll try anyway - but having stirred up anti-immigrant feelings, that one will fail.
Nobody likes being shafted time after time; but at least we get to laugh at the idiots who are ruining the NHS one more time. Where do they find these people?
It is unlikely, of course, that this years stupidity will whack Gordon Brown in the eye, despite his native Scotland choosing to be more generous than the England and Wales bosses. But I suspect he's miscalculated.
He was probably intending to be mean - sorry, 'prudent' - this year, allowing him to appear generous next year, when the election is much closer. But with inflation beginning to slip from his grasp, he won't have that safety net. So he'll be even tighter next year. And that will end his 'honeymoon period', assuming it lasts that long. ¶ 01:44
