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       And so they’re back – those greedy junior doctors who since 2022 have been on strike 11 times, resulting in 1.5million cancelled appointments – and still they’re peddling the lie that the strikes were never about the money but were all because they cared about the NHS and patients’ lives. And the minute this craven Government came to power one of the first things it did was cave in to the execrable BMA union – jam-packed with Leftie militants and activists – and stuffed those doctors’ mouths with gold (a quote from Nye Bevan, not me).

       More specifically it gave them a 22% pay rise which the stupidly na？ve Wes Streeting gave them with no strings attached about not coming back for more. Now, having already been given an inflation busting 5.4% pay rise for this year – more than the consultants and nurses are getting – they’re now demanding 30%. Which proves all their moralising and noble protestations last year about wanting to save patients’ lives and the NHS were just tosh.

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       Of course the greedy junior doctors are back for more (Image: Getty)

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       This is all about greed and a weak Government who the BMA believes will cave into its outrageous demands – because it's done it before.

       It’s also demanding we now call them resident doctors not junior doctors, presumably because it makes them sound more experienced than they actually are and so more deserving of a 30% pay rise? Well sorry, I’m not calling them that because they ARE junior doctors and it’s why their pay is considerably lower than that of experienced, senior doctors.

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       But the big difference between now and last year is that these medics are already losing public support because people are finally seeing through their greedy demands and those money-grubbing chancers at the BMA.

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       Because anyone who believes the fantasy figures put out by this union about junior doctors’ pay needs to do some proper research.

       Because whatever their basic salary is they earn shed loads more in overtime – time and a half for more than 37 and a half hours a week, overtime for unsocial hours and working at weekends. They also get obscenely large pensions from the state which you and I don’t.

       As for their claims that their pay has declined by 23% in real terms since 2008 – don’t believe that either. That figure has been debunked by the Institute of Fiscal Studies yet the BMA keeps using it to gain public sympathy.

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       Yes, doctors work hard but so does everyone else. And no-one put a gun to their heads to be doctors. They chose the profession knowing exactly what it entailed. And presumably they chose it because they had a calling – not because they believed they were going to make millions.

       And these people are hardly in the bones of their backsides as the BMA would have you believe. And once they’re senior doctors and consultants they will earn upwards of ￡250,000 a year.

       And no more of this nonsense about how they’re all fleeing abroad to work because they get more money. There’s a very simple reason for that and it’s because the countries they’re going to don’t have national health services – they have private ones which obviously pay more. But suggest a private health service here and there's uproar.

       This claim for a 30% rise isn’t just tawdry and greedy, it’s damaging the hard won reputations of the good, decent doctors who are seeing their status devalued by their greedy, militant union.

       If junior doctors really cared about the NHS they wouldn’t be making these outrageous money demands that will bankrupt it. Because the NHS isn’t a profit-making organisation it’s a health service that is funded by us all and which THEY are now endangering with their reckless threats of more strikes.

       As for this Government it needs to tell the BMA to stick its demands where the sun don’t shine. Because if it caves in again to them the NHS is finished.

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       I don't know what it is yet but there’s something “off” about the story surrounding Liverpool tragedy suspect, Paul Doyle, who’s been charged with dangerous driving, and six other offences including grievous bodily harm, attempted GBH and wounding with intent, following the carnage at Monday’s football parade.

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       There were no drugs charges even though it had been suggested Doyle was "off his head" on them at the time of the tragedy.

       Turns out he was a Royal Marine Commando who’d served in the unit that guards the UK’s nuclear deterrent. He’s also a university-educated father of three who has owned his own businesses and whose friends and neighbours say is a fantastic bloke with a heart of gold.

       He was only in Liverpool that day because he was doing a friend and her daughter a favour by dropping them off for an appointment in town. We still haven’t got to the bottom of this story. There's more to it than we're being told!