A juniors doctor’s salary is pretty paltry at around 25k/year last time I checked, when I was a newly qualified physiotherapist I started on around 23k/year for a 37.5 hour week, and I was doing around half their hours. I don’t think I’d begrudge them a decent rise, especially as Boris has just freed up bankers to start creaming as much bonus money as they like again.
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Firstly, 30% - seriously??
Secondly - they want this applied across the board to include consultants who are already earning 6 figures - they are quite specific about this because this is where they will earn their “millions” later on.
Its not like consultant surgeons struggle (well maybe Verbier is a stretch after school fees). Surely that money would be better spent on the poor sods in the hospital on or close to minimum wage
As for bankers and Landlords - I agree - there was one guy in the telegraph whinging that his pension plan had been knackered by Gove’s new rules and that he would have to sell his 30 (thirty) buy to lets. He was despairing how he would provide for his family
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No point starting lower when trying to negotiate pay rises in the public sector. Physio union asked for 3% for NHS physios about 12 years ago and got ground down to 1% spread over 3 years (£70/year extra for me before tax whoop de fuckin whoop). If you start low government (any government) will find a way to go lower.
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Yeah, I work in the public sector and we get told about the pay negotiations. I think this year the negotiations wanted 5% and they were being offered 1%.
Of course the negotiations started well before the “cost of living crisis”
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Actually it turns out its not 30% - that is “pay restoration”. They also want 2% above inflation
So that a 41% pay rise they are after.
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At my firm the more we save on salary increases the bigger the bonus 
This is what happens when you don’t give people decent pay rises every year and your idiot fuck of a PM decides to exacerbate an inflation crisis by cutting off access to about 40% of available world energy reserves.
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Or 40% of the world cheap Labour
Since 2010 MP’s pay has increased by 19k a year from 65k in 2010 to 84k in 2022, pretty much a 30% increase over that time, maybe that is what they’re basing their request on?
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Maybe - who knows
Not sure that the MPs are a good example - they are woefully unpaid hence the dogshit quality of people in there
I wouldn’t mind being poorly paid if I could claim travel, food, utilities etc on expenses, had a subsidised bar and restaurant at work and could secure a lucrative nest egg by a nod and a wink to businessmen requiring a little favour or two.
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So sack all that shit off and pay them properly
20 people at Southampton council earn more than an MP and no doubt get less grief
We want good people running the show - £84k doesn’t get you that - it gets you mediocrity or narcissism
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And a closed shop stopping anyone with morals getting a job
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Surely this is corrupt, the guy was Education Secretary less than a year ago. Woefully underpaid my arse, I shall save my sympathy for those who need it.
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If it keeps that cunt away from front line politics, it’s worth every penny and more
Pincher by name…
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The old politicians aren’t helping themselves - how many of them have been undone by getting shitfaced in the Westminster bars?
Actually - not at Westminster - but at a club
Can we call him Crab Grabber?