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Beth Rigbys interview with Truss on Sky was excruciating, and compelling. Obviously Truss offered wooden repetitive irrelevant off topic confusing answers to some serious questions about leadership

Basically making the same points in the same language since the mini budgie. How long will this go on?

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The interview.

Really hard to watch. She's literally repeating, verbatim, the shit she's been spewing since she turned up again at the end of last week.

Catastrophically out of her depth.

Sunak has to be worth a punt.

Oh god - that last question about the mortgage, she was completely thrown at having to change the direction of her thought patterns

I've started a Liz Truss thread so other news gets airtime here

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/380345/#comment16709647

You can see her brain screech to a halt in real time.

Watching health secretary Coffey's lacklustre speech. (masochistic I know). At least the images of rows of sleeping and yawning delegates are entertaining.

They need coffee

I see what you did there.

The world really does feel like a horrible dream at the moment.

https://twitter.com/jake_hanrahan/status/1577296142303481861

fuck!!

Twitter delivers, as ever

Nurses balloted to go on strike.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-63150632

Are they still heroes or are they now enemies of progress?
(Or should they just go and get better paid jobs?)

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/conservative-party-chairman-anger-earn-more-money/

Didn't clap hard enough

From memory quite a large percentage of nurses wanted to strike several years ago but the RCN rolled over for the government. My wife joined GMB after that because they wanted to pressure for a realistic payrise. They have been fucked over pay for many years.

Would love to see wage ratio limits imposed in law.

I recently found out corbyn had it as a policy, who knew....

Sounds like a nasty incident on Bishopsgate this morning - 4 stabbed after challenging a bike theft? Hope all are ok?

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/four-people-have-reportedly-been-stabbed-in-bishopsgate/
(excuse LBC link)

Nurses are clearly part of the “anti-growth coalition” even if they’d never heard of it before Truss introduced the term yesterday.

I’m expecting it to appear in a Sarah Vi E/Alistair Heath column as Antigr before the month is out

Straight from Trump’s “Enemy of the people” playbook.

Something else 'Truss is not for turning' will almost inevitably u turn on

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/05/uk-prepares-for-winter-blackouts-as-energy-rationing-campaign-discussed

They have been fucked over pay for many years.

Earning significantly less than they were in 2010.

"People know that when their bills arrive, they can either cut their consumption or they can get a higher salary, higher wages, go out there and get that new job,”

Maybe these militant nurses should look for a second job, like giving strategic corporate advice to a law firm if they are struggling.

Is there a particularly free market for jobs like nurses and doctors? Like if you wanted to 'go and get that new job' is that plausible or would the pay be in the same constraints at the other (NHS) hospital you applied for (assuming no promotion).

I assume that private hospital jobs are relatively scarce?

The market alternative is locum jobs rather than private work, I would think. Better day rates, more flexibility (reflecting the true value of the services) but less potential for career advancement and (from what I observe) a weird sense of professional guilt.

ms_com was recently in a private hospital (#GCT) and was chatting a lot with a nurse there. She took a pay cut to go from NHS to private. The big draw was the reduced case load. 2 patients instead of "many".