It is a bit early to say definitely, but the signs are that the Tories are going to back down on their demands on doctors working hours. This follows a quite ferocious campaign by doctors against the government's new proposed contract that would see a doctor's weekly contract increase from 7.00 am to 7.00pm Monday to Friday to 7.00am to 10.00pm Monday to Saturday with the extra hours worked at no incremental increase.
This is a small but significant demonstration that in any healthy political society government must live in real fear of rebellion. That is one of the reasons that the government's plans for trades unions are so dangerous and undemocratic. A healthy democracy must be one in which there is the definite prospect of government being defeated if it becomes too tyrannical. The tendency of every government is towards tyranny, and, as British government has graphically shown since the election of Mad Tony, governments will try as much as they can to make themselves irremovable. This has become worse under the Tories who are clamping down on all forms of resistance to their plans and removing rights as fast as possible. For example, their propaganda is now quite outrageous and has now no constraint against all and every form of character assassination. In terms of lies and disinformation they must now be at least the equals of the North Koreans. Another irresistible tendency of governments that the British have raised to an art form is to enrich themselves and their friends at the publics expense. Successive governments have bent all their energies to removing as many barriers to their ability to loot the national treasury as they can. The evidence of this is so demonstrable that I do not need to elaborate any further. The other irresistible tendency of governments is to suppress or destroy every new intellectual discovery or doctrine that challenges and/or endangers their power. That is why they ferociously propagandise against climate change for example, on the need to lessen our dependence on fossil fuels, and explains the massive campaign of lies and disinformation against Scottish Independence and the European Union.
As I repeatedly say, Britain is sliding into authoritarian forms of governmental control that is taking us into a fascist type society. English voters have obviously bought into the dominant narrative and will reap the whirlwind that is looming under the spite and malice of these people. That is what they voted for and what they will therefore get. That is their choice. However, we now witness the phenomenon of doctors adopting the language and tactics of Arthur Scargill, so there are still glimmers of hope. The problem will come if these same people still vote Tory in the future. The one saving grace in all of this is that support for Scottish Independence continues to grow with the Labour Party, despite electing two new leaders in Scotland and at national level, continuing to lose support and genuinely becoming an endangered species in Scotland. Scottish loathing of Westminster is the healthiest political movement in this sorry nation, the Tories have been almost extinguished and Labour is heading down that same path. The lies and deceit of the Better Together campaign is coming back to bite these people as this blog warned that it would. As I told you, we won't be fooled again. You have been warned.
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Doktor Kommirat
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