A ‘fair and reasonable’ pay offer for nurses? You’ll get psittacosis listening to these Tory parrots!
Mark Harper: like a parrot, he’s repeated endlessly that the Tory pay cut for nurses is “fair and reasonable”. You’ll need a nurse to treat you for psittacosis after listening too much to him!
Tory ministers have been doing the media rounds, telling us how “fair and reasonable” their latest real-terms pay cut for nurses is.
Watch the clip of Mark Harper, sitting on his massive ministerial salary (that has risen at a rate within one per cent of the rate of inflation) and trying to convince Sky’s Sophie Ridge that a pay rise that’s half inflation is “decent”:
#Ridge – The average pay for nurses has fallen by 8% in real terms since 2010 & nurses pay declined at twice the rate of private sector pay…
Mark Harper(Transport Secretary) – They were offered a decent pay rise
SR – 5%, half the rate of inflation#bbclaurak pic.twitter.com/xRlmh8aCMl
— Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@Haggis_UK) April 30, 2023
Now listen to the ever-brilliant Peter Stefanovic, telling us the facts that people like Harper don’t want us to know.
Jeez. Watch in disbelief and if you stand shoulder to shoulder with our loyal nurses RT it widely pic.twitter.com/guMWRIEdVh
— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) April 30, 2023
But still the Tories adhere to their “Big Lie” philosophy – tell a lie often enough and enough people will believe it.
Psittacosis, also known as parrot fever, is an infectious disease that people can contract from the tropical avians, with flu-like symptoms accompanied by a kind of pneumonia.
The most anybody can expect to get from listening to these Tory parrots is a hefty dose of that!
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Even those of us on benefits get a better deal than the nurses. Not suggesting our benefits shouldn’t get an inflation matching raise, but surely those who save lives deserve at least the same (and, I would argue, more)