Jeremy Hunt calls for NHS pay rise to be cancelled

[oldironside]

Ministers have sparked a new confrontation with NHS staff by trying to derail a pay rise they were promised next year and to scrap their pay progression system linked to length of service.

In a surprise move, the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, urged the two independent pay review bodies that set earnings for the NHS's 1.3 million workforce to cancel the 1% rise due in April 2014, even though the chancellor, George Osborne, has previously said it is affordable.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/oct/04/jeremy-hunt-nhs-pay-rise-cancelled

This is what I honestly don't undestand about the Tories. If I treated people worse off than me like that I would feel guilt, shame and self loathing. Why don't they?

[non sociopath skin]

1. It's the Tory way of saying "Thank You".

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[LeftishBrit]

2. Uggggh.

And as regards your last question: two things, I think. One is that the people who get into power tend to do so because they are more ruthless, and less inclined to guilt feelings, than most of the rest of us. Those who suffer from that thing known as a conscience tend to be inhibited from all the knifing and smearing and worse that enables the powerful to step all over their rivals and become even more powerful.

The first applies to powerful politicians in general. As regards the Tories specifically: I think that the fundamental difference is that, whereas for many of us the worst and most shameful thing is to be a bully, for many on the right, the worst and most shameful thing is to be a victim. They may dress it up as condemnation of people who pretend to be, or as Romney put it re the '47%', 'believe they are victims'; but a lot of it is a real genuine moral condemnation of people who are 'unsuccessful', far more than of people who are successful through cruel or dishonest methods.

[non sociopath skin]

3. Nicely put, LB.

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