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Huge public support for striking workers as voters blame Tories for nurse walkouts

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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/huge-public-support-striking-workers-28701257

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Polls show huge public support for striking workers, as voters blamed Rishi Sunak’s Tories for nurse walkouts.

Almost half of voters (46%) blamed the government for industrial action by nurses and ambulance workers, compared with 17% who blamed unions.

Most of those polls backed tax increases to give NHS staff a pay rise.

And the new YouGov poll for the Times showed a third (33%) also blamed the government for the looming rail strikes.

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Jeremy Corbyn clearly illustrates why nurses’ pay demand is affordable

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Jeremy Corbyn MP, former leader of the Labour Party

https://leftfootforward.org/2022/12/jeremy-corbyn-clearly-illustrates-why-nurses-pay-demand-is-affordable/

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The prime minister Rishi Sunak has argued the RCN’s inflation-busting pay claim is “unaffordable”.

However, the former leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn has summed up why this is palpably untrue. He tweeted, “The cost of meeting nurses’ demand for an inflation-busting pay rise: £1.6 billion. The cost of Rishi Sunak’s bank tax giveaways: £7.3 billion. If we can afford handouts for the rich, we can afford to meet the basic needs of those who keep this country afloat.”

While the government is content to give tax breaks and handouts to the mega-rich, they’re leaving the people who keep the NHS running to chose between heating and eating.

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