To think the 1% pay rise for NHS is bloody insulting

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And that this is why Johnson was always up for clapping for NHS because he knew he will not offer them anything substantial for their services.
It’s infuriating!

Yes it is insulting. There is already a thread on this atm.

There are several other threads about it

It will be interesting to see how much of a pay rise that MPs will vote in for themselves!

Of course it is. But how could anyone have expected anything different from this government? It's laughable that people are still surprised by it.

Totally expected . slap for the NHS

For some reason, I access the AIBU anymore as the website keeps giving error message.
I think there is too much traffic on Mumsnet.

Cannot*

I work in the NHS and would sooner see a bonus for those who have worked frontline

I have worked throughout keeping normal NHS services running with fewer staff and increased demand but count myself lucky to have a job and a regular income. I have not risked my life or worked as frontline staff have.
Many NHS staff have worked from home and quite a number have had an easier time

I agree with QueenOfTheDoublewide, also NHS and working harder than I've worked in my life, never have a full nights sleep because of the worry and stress ,however it should be paid to frontline, and probably also cleaners. lots of staff shielding or wfh for nearly a year and still on full pay , how would the rise be done fairly. ?I am so grateful to have this job though, despite the craziness, I know I've got an income

@1Morewineplease

It will be interesting to see how much of a pay rise that MPs will vote in for themselves!

They don't do that these days.

In recent years they have complained that they are unable to reject the increase the independent body gives them, especially during the austerity period.

@1Morewineplease

It will be interesting to see how much of a pay rise that MPs will vote in for themselves!

MPs don't vote their own any more. With that said since they have had an independent review board their rises have been fucking outrageous.

It's an utter insult I feel so sorry for them . Makes it worse doctors are being given £10 per household give out vaccines .

It is insulting but where can they get the money from?
We've borrowed astronomical amounts of money, which we will be paying back for decades.

Hmm. My quasi public staff have had to take a pY cut and work thrice as hard for the last twelve months.

DD's care from MH team has been on-line or non existent and I have been told that all non hospital staff are working from home until sd ceases even if that means patients have been offered 14 hour telephone appointment windows.

Some NHS staff have given 200%; some have given 60%. Perfectly happy for a payrise for those who have been F2F. Not for those who haven't been available and for whom our civil liberties have been curtailed.

I was v shocked to see admin staff from DD's MH service and a former member of my team at work who I know now works at a local hospital (from home) waving their lanyards in the supermarket queue. Shocking.

I have been doing the job of 2-4 nurses every day for a year, so yes it is insulting. But there was a thread on here just a few days ago about how shit the NHS is and how uncaring we all are so I’m not sure the public believe we deserve a pay rise and clearly neither dose the government.

I was absolutely disgusted today when I heard a Tory MP basically saying 1% is better than people in the tourism and leisure agency , as they are losing their jobs.

It's not a fucking race to the bottom ffs.

The tories are going to use the pandemic for years to come with regards to pay rises, austerity etc.

Makes me sick

Sorry, but there would be a huge public backlash if the government were to offer anything close to the 12% the NHS staff are apparently looking for. We need to get the economy back on track, which is going to need a massive injection of cash. The government need to start looking into ways of clawing back the debt accumulated over this last year. The NHS have got 1% more than the majority of other workers are going to be getting. There’s no spare cash in the pot -simple as that really.

Come on surely you can see this is a carefully designed exercise to arrive at the minimum number without overpaying. If the number had been 12%, that would be too high for govt budget. If it was 5%, that would still get bad press and they would ask for more. By putting 1% out there, a bar has been set and even increase to 4% will look good now.

Exact 50/50 split.

Yes we are massively in debt.

But with all the stuff money has been squandered on this feels like a dick move.

@DuchessofHastings1

It is insulting but where can they get the money from? We've borrowed astronomical amounts of money, which we will be paying back for decades.

This. Haven't the Gov said 1% is all the public purse can afford?

Not really, redundancy and loosing your business is what if call a kick in the teeth, not a pay rise.

Obviously I’m not saying they haven’t worked hard or earned more of a pay rise, of course they have, but so have others who have lost their incomes completely.

Our sector had a pay freeze. Many have lost their jobs.

I don’t think 1% is insulting at all in the current climate.

It might be all the public purse cannot afford due to the billions that has been squandered away on nothing. Not fit for purpose PPE - used by said NHS staff! Track and trace, £10k for every MP to set up working from home, £55k on take away for government officials etc etc.
All of those hypocrites who stood and clapped or banged a pan lid on a Thursday night, all forgotten. Sod the NHS now.

Can afford!!

The public purse is surely funded by many who have a reduced or low income!

Some sectors of the NHS have most certainly not been front line in this pandemic, and many of u, have not bothered them, or needed them at all.

In order for a pay rise - taxes will have to rise - so the altruism stops at that point!

we then have to "pay" for what the NHS has done for us all...when many have reduced incomes, have been forced to close etc,,,to protect the NHS.