It is the Tory government we can’t afford, not junior doctors

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The government have run down the NHS with the intention to sell it off and underpaying its human resource has been a major tactic in that (PA)

The government refuses to talk to junior doctors currently on strike, who seem to carry an occupational punch well above the weight their title suggests.

Strikes in every area of public life have at their heart the austerity policy of successive Tory governments. They have run down the NHS with the intent of a sell-off and underpaying its human resource has been a major tactic.

On the question of affordability, the junior doctors have no responsibility for the inflation which adversely impacts us all, nor are they responsible for the parlous state of public finances. The government on the other hand has been a positive contributor to both.