#KeirStarmer outwitted by dim #Tories as they leapfrog #Labour #NHSpay demand
Pennies: The Tories offered the NHS a tiny pittance and all Starmer could think to do was offer a tiny pittance more. So the Tories have offered more again and can now say that they are better for working people than Labour.
Doesn’t this just demonstrate the hopelessness of the Labour Party under Keir Starmer?
Seeing the Tories offer the National Health Service a one per cent pay raise – but unwilling to demand the 15 per cent that would level up (to adopt a current vogue phrase) their pay to pre-2010 levels, Starmer’s Labour demanded – what?
Two per cent.
And now the Tories have shown how easy it is to outwit Starmer’s dimwitted band of fake socialists, by offering three per cent.
They can now say that they are offering the workers a better deal than Labour and there is nothing Starmer can do to deny it.
Three per cent is still an almost-useless offer. Inflation currently stands at 2.4 per cent, meaning NHS workers will get a real-terms improvement of 0.6 per cent.
Then there’s this:
There is also speculation that just 1.5% of the 3% would be added permanently to salaries, with the other 1.5% given as a one-off payment. If that proves to be the way the offer is structured then workforce representatives are likely to criticise the 3% figure as a sham and too low.
So the Tory offer could be – in essence – a lie.
But people only notice the headline figure and in it they will see that the Tories are offering more than Labour.
The Tories aren’t clever. But Starmer is plain stupid. He will never beat them because he can’t. He simply doesn’t know how.
Source: NHS staff in England could be offered 3% pay rise | NHS | The Guardian
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I can’t understand why he didn’t insist on AT LEAST the 4% that Scottish NHS workers are getting. This is being done from existing budgets and therefore proves the lie of ‘affordability’
This single missed opportunity would’ve seen the Tories have to do better than SNP and Labour being able to claim victory (in that they shamed them in to it) For Labour a win/win.
Starmer is the worst leader Labour has had in my lifetime – yes, even worse than Blair..