James O'Brien destroys Health Secretary over 'disgusting' claims about striking healthcare workers

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@quentinkumba6746 Год назад

I know an ICU nurse. She’s been taking handprints of patients that are about to die, for loved ones, it’s something they do. It’s personal, doing it takes a toll. She is a really special person and we are very very lucky to have her in particular and other people like her.

@Believe-you-me- Год назад

We don’t deserve her.

@blueband8114 Год назад

I know an ICU nurse who is nice with patients, not in real life. So what's your point?

@jamescaley9942 Год назад

Yes, but this is all about cold hard cash.

@quentinkumba6746 Год назад

@@jamescaley9942 - ha ha ha, mate, only to you. Your comment is all about you projecting your greed onto someone else. Nurses today earn less in real terms than 10 years ago. To you it’s about cold hard cash, to most people it’s about fairness and getting paid what you’re worth, something I guess you find difficult to understand.

@Neil070 Год назад

@@quentinkumba6746 it's also about staffing levels. Pay the wages, keep and recruit staff, pressure will ease, attracting / keeping more staff, a virtuous circle

@johngoodwin34 Год назад

I think we should call a general STIKE Just to show the tory’s we have had enough..

@kyorin6526 Год назад

All unions should work together now, and walk out for an entire week each month, instead a of a couple of days here, and a couple there. A fundraiser could be set up to help the lowest paid with this - I'd contribute.

@darrylweathers6764 Год назад

Honestly think it’s heading that way. 12 years of the Tories blaming the previous government for problems they’ve had over a decade to fix and chosen not to. The next election can’t come soon enough

@marvintpandroid2213 Год назад

We are getting there, January is going to be wild as will next year as a whole.

@stephenreeds3632 Год назад

That didn't go well last time either.

@harrychown6854 Год назад

@@kyorin6526 Unions start by doing it small scale. The odd day here and there. The odd sector. The odd trust. The odd section of the civil service on the odd day. They do it to give the government a chance. The first chance was the demand for more pay. The next chance was the threat of strike action. Then the fragmented strikes begin as we have now. THEN when/if the government still doesn't play ball, it'll escalate. They do it small scale to start, and if they don't get their way, it'll be done on a big and wide scale. It'll happen.

@Adamnlaw Год назад

Health Secretary Steve Barclay walked around a Hospital yesterday, ended up speaking face-to-face with a woman next to her child in a bed waiting for an operation that has been cancelled several times whilst nodding his head agreeing with the woman as she summarised what has been happening in the NHS with the staff being overworked, lack of resources, lack of social care making elderly people having to go to hospitals, amount of patients etc. and making it clear that it was happeneing BEFORE the pandemic that these 'politicians' are blaming it on and she did it within approx 90 seconds. They see us as numbers and nothing else.

@georgec7899 Год назад

Compassion or Integrity the Tories===ZERO 100% and their supporters included

@nick1065 Год назад

Maybe you should put your hand in your pocket then and pay more taxes. Never forget, save the NHS!

@hayleyrees9265 Год назад

@@nick1065 I would willingly pay more tax as long as I could see where the money is being spent.

@AlBundyOz Год назад

@@nick1065 Daddy's a politician or public servant isn't he??

@taefravis Год назад

@@nick1065 Maybe you should put your hand in your pocket and pay Steve Barclay - save the Tories!

@lowesy7 Год назад

As an ICU consultant working in the NHS for the past 15 years, you could not be more on the money here! We’re seeing the widespread collapse of the health and social care system playing out in real time and the government are stealing the buckets as we try to bail out the water

@kellen4866 Год назад

I am an American, so I am probably ignorant of most of the happenings of the NHS. I have followed what is going on lately, and from personal experience, DO NOT go to privatized/for profit healthcare! I work as a provider in healthcare here and it is absolutely abominable the financial wrecking that the patients I see go through. Even personal experience; my daughter had an EKG with Echocardiogram for precautionary purpose and it ended up costing $1800. My insurance paid $900 and I paid the rest because of the deductible. That is outrageous.

@JcdLowe Год назад

There are undoubtedly many people over here who A) have no idea how ludicrously expensive healthcare plans/costs are in the States & B) are unaware that the NHS has already privatised some things. Healthcare came up in conversation a few years ago at a family gathering and my uncle (70s; read The Daily Mail his entire life, sadly) took exception when I said that the Tories clearly wanted to increasingly move towards privatisation... It couldn't be more obvious.

@zippymufo9765 Год назад

No, the ideal system would use a heavily regulated privatized system in junction with government coverage, which is in fact what many single-payer countries have. Making hospital staff de facto government employees has led to wage suppression----British nurses earn half of what US nurses make. The US could fix most of it's problems by expanding Medicare to cover anyone who wants it.

@pansepot1490 Год назад

Wow $1800! In Italy that would cost €120 in a private clinic. We have a pretty decent public healthcare system but sometimes for not urgent things the waiting list can get long. So there’s the private option, which, having to compete with the free public healthcare, is very reasonably priced.

@kellen4866 Год назад

@@zippymufo9765 I agree with that. Here in the States, congress just barely passed legislation that would give medicare power to negotiate pricing with pharmaceutical companies, but that is pretty much the extent of what the US government does to regulate cost of healthcare.

@zippymufo9765 Год назад

@@kellen4866 It's annoying because the answer is right within reach. I think the Obama administration and the Democrats showed lamentable cowardice in not reaching for it when they had the chance instead of the band-aid of Obamacare. Now who knows if they'll ever get enough of a majority in Congress to revisit the issue.

@tonyblackshaw5047 Год назад

What gets me James is the way the Conservatives accuse Labour of being beholden to 'their Union Paymasters' whilst ignoring the fact that the Conservatives are beholden to their Billionaire donors whether from Russia or anywhere else.

@adrianhjordan1981 Год назад

Imagine the horror of a democratic party listening to democratic bodies with memberships that absolutely dwarf the membership of the Conservative Party

@mrennie5158 Год назад

To be honest what we're striking for is not a pay rise we are striking for as small as possible pay cut. Remember nurses get paid in cuts not raises. We refuse to accept another cut.

@alidawson6118 Год назад

Solidarity to you all.

@sophiehall9814 Год назад

Like whom?

@Tom-ev8mk Год назад

@Tom If that is the case then those more important workers you refer to should campaign for better pay and they should be supported as is their right

@benisprobablyangry239 Год назад

I want this shouted from the rooftops - in any sane society, a nurse won't take a pay cut until every politician, every single person being paid more than them has had their pay cut to the nurse's level. The staff who directly keep people alive aren't front-line workers, they're last-line workers: they're literally the thing that stands between society and oblivion. Perhaps only with the exception of farmers, who are also in the "keeping people alive" business, every single person in all of society should suffer pay cuts and tax rises before a nurse has to lose a single penny.

@shaun906 Год назад

you have my solidarity 🙋‍♂

@russellpanken Год назад

Mr O'Brien is simply one of the most eloquent speakers of my lifetime

@gillosborne9516 Год назад

As an ex nurse, I can assure you that this will be tearing the striking nurses to pieces. They have been left with no option.

@grobbler1 Год назад

Full support for our wonderful Nurses. Thank you for your previous service.

@solaakinnagbe2769 Год назад

If so, they need not go on strike.

@gingerssmelllikecabbageand8708 Год назад

@@solaakinnagbe2769 so what do you propose, you seem to have answers, enlighten me

@ThatGuyThanus Год назад

They’ve played on the goodwill and caring nature of healthcare workers, for decades… and now we’ve got nurses depending of food banks.. disgusting!

@snsn7251 Год назад

Well said

@Adpocalyptic Год назад

@@snsn7251 Tories lie, people die, I've left the healthcare sector after having multiple roles in it, and don't think I can go back to it but I'll say this, the whole 'private care' schtick from the railways & that the Tories always like to cheer on is even worse, and they're just NHS-X Contracts handed out to their mates companies anyways. All while management that is loyal to the company over patient welfare, get put in charge of overworked staff that can't be in two places at once. That's removed funding from the NHS, not added funding, because it's gone to those same crony companies. A sleeze scandal that has been building since the Thatcher days! Too much blaming the nurses for what the Tories did to NHS Workers aswell, Dodgy Statistical Maneuvering & Misinformation is dangerous when it comes to critical frontline carers.

@grahamhollingworth8253 Год назад

I've yet to see a nurse at a food bank.

@skinnytinny9023 Год назад

Everyone thinks all Nurses are on 10 pounds an hour - some are on 56. It depends what job you do.

@barrieroberts75 Год назад

So you haven't noticed the explosion of the number of Food Banks in the UK scince the 2010 election?

@jaffat3560 Год назад

My wife is a HealthWorker for NHS Wales and I can tell everyone without a doubt they all deserve a pay rise! I challenge anyone who has never held a job, anyone who sits in an office for maybe 8 hours a day and definitely any MP to work a month in a nurses shoes, a porters shoes, a doctors shoes or any persons shoes who works for the NHS

@stephenisom6089 Год назад

health care assistants porters cleaners .are very badly paid .nurses are not look at n h s jobs and the wage scale the bands the starting pay 25.5000 .

@ryejordantv1112 Год назад

@@stephenisom6089 I’m a student nurse. Nurses are badly paid. To say I am at uni getting myself into 60000 pounds worth of debt to leave with a 27055 a year pay is pretty bad in my eyes. We aren’t talking about bin men or someone sitting behind a desk we are talking about people who actually save peoples lives. You ever wrapped someone when they have passed away? Or gave personal care to someone who as passed away?…no! Anybody who critiques our job wants to do our job for a week. The emotional turmoil that comes with it is worth even more than the 19% they are asking for!…..it’s a joke and soon people will pay a very hefty price.

@stephenisom6089 Год назад

@@ryejordantv1112 rye thats one of the problems you should not be paying anything at all ,this has to stop bursary never understood why .but you keep going girl and when you become a nurse be proud and you will have a nice life the safest job no redundancies for nurses i work in a big hospital in the midlands .you will make it and be a great nurse ,i agree with you nurses should not pay for being a nurse ,and i wish you the best i really do in a very important profession .cheers rye merry christmas ,

@simonfernandes6809 Год назад

I work in the NHS and my pay has not increased by any meaningful amount for years. So, I'm planning on leaving, the stress is not worth it.

@timmotion6494 Год назад

@@ryejordantv1112 Well said.

@stuartferrar5764 Год назад

So the Tories wanted to remove the cap on bankers bonuses, but want to ensure Nurses pay rises was capped at their agreed February rate... we know who the Government really loves!

@happyapple4269 Год назад

Or who is really in control and who really calls the shots.

@TheWiseJames Год назад

lets not forget the tories have not had a national debt surplus since like 1989. Labour did it in 2001/2002 before we went to war in the middle east and ruined that boom. The national debt is currently 2,436.7 billion or 2.4 trillion. We also have 120billion in student loan debt and around 800 billion in pension debt. This means the tory party since 2010 have averaged 17billion pounds of debt every month since 2010. They also gave themselves 3 pay rises in 12 years. This is why they do not have the money to pay nurses what they deserve. a 17billion pound monthly deficit since 2010 they blame the labour party for.

@beardedrogue Год назад

Removing the bankers bonuses is dangerous and creates a culture of high risk, high reward. We all remember and payed the cost last time for their ineptitude and greed resulting in the last recession

@TheWiseJames Год назад

@Tom I was on about mps giving themselves pay rises. Not nurses tom. Mps pay rises should be dictated by an independent body separate to parliament. Performance based, and also any rises should be put to a public referendum. Nurses i think in 2010 on average earned around £33,000 a year. In 2022 i think the average is currently around £31,000 so you are correct in what your saying tom :)

@TheWiseJames Год назад

@@PhillColl1ns I agree, but wont that create wage inflation that the tories are going on about will happen with nurses? surely a few thousand people getting any extra million a year is no different to a hundred thousand people getting an extra 10% a year?

@ianjd5193 Год назад

Sing it James. Absolutely spot on. This country needs a new direction. All this Government does is make me angry and filled with rage. It’s not healthy and I do not want to live my life being this angry. It is the responsibility of every voter in this country to completely wipe this Conservative Party out at the next General election.

@chatham43 Год назад

.....you mean your direction whatever that is....😀

@stibstabler4689 Год назад

@@chatham43 get real spanner!!

@michaelshanahan4042 Год назад

Apserlotley right ✅

@silversurfer640 Год назад

IanJD Yet the politically blind, will keep voting for these monsters. I'd love to see the conservative party, become extinct. However they keep bouncing back, and given "one more chance". The only way to get away from the Tories, is to emigrate. It's so easy to hate them with a great passion.

@TJTOPBOY Год назад

The whole political systems needs to be reformed. It’s flawed and all the mp’s are on a gravy train.

@annwornell7510 Год назад

How disgusting that this government can give themselves pay increases, plus their expenses that they claim. To say nothing of the Billions of £ that this government wasted, due to their dodgy dealings during the pandemic. Our NHS staff, our Firemen, Ambulance people, our Postal Workers actually do more for us than this government ever has, or ever intend to do.

@nick1065 Год назад

Just pay more in tax Ann if you feel that strongly

@SammiCPC79 Год назад

@@nick1065 or how about pay less to failed banks, and property owners. In fact we could just increase capital gains taxes modestly, and we could fund 19% for nurses without a single income tax hit.

@petefl1818 Год назад

@@nick1065 "Just pay more in tax", what so the Torys can give it to their supporters to bank it offshore like the robber Baroness did. Tax used to be for running the country but these days it's for bunging to the Torys families and friends who've already had large tax cuts.

@sjbict Год назад

@@nick1065 What for the Gvt and civil servants to waste and be unaccountable for.

@Eleventhearlofmars Год назад

@@nick1065 that’s not as simple as you look fella.

@Mark-bl6oe Год назад

This is the most accurate and well said commentary on the ambulance strikes I've heard yet. I'm a paramedic and the whole situation feels so awful and difficult to comprehend. But it's awful and difficult to comprehend anyway on a typical day. And not a week goes by without a new event shocking me, and with 10 years in the job I'm not easily shocked anymore. Everyday I'm immensely grateful that I'm the paramedic and not the patient in this broken system. This was so accurate and well said I felt like I was hearing it from a crewmate feeling upset between jobs. Hearing this put so eloquently from someone who doesn't do my job but has clearly taken their time to well research the situation almost made me tear up. Because the facts hurt.

@HelenaMikas Год назад

@HelenaMikas excellent & thank you for working as you do .The system is broken because the reality is 12 years of Tory rule have murdered it.

@jaybee4288 Год назад

Saw the government the other day on tv and it’s bizarre how out of touch they are. They seem to take no reponsibility or have any understanding of public sentiment. They’re acting like nothing bad has happened and that they still have some huge majority mandate.

@danielcampbell3686 Год назад

That often happens, when you have a government that are all multimillionaires, who have never had to scrape for a crust, while you are sitting in the freezing cold and cant afford to turn on your heating, they have everything turned on sitting nice and warm. none of them have ever had to sit in A&E for hours and hours, they go straight into their heated floor private rooms, no waiting list of 7 million (caused by their mismanagement for decades) and seen privately straight away by the Best NHS trained Doctors and yes all doctors and nurses working in Private hospitals are NHS trained, Because our Trained professionals are in high demand worldwide.

@petergaskin1811 Год назад

Seeing as we're on our third PM and Government since early July, we must be fairly near the bottom of the barrel talent-wise. Not that any of them were particularly talented in the first place.

@reggied1250 Год назад

@@petergaskin1811 Tori talent is rated by how much can we enrich ourselves and our rich powers and how can we wake workers pay for it?

@wot4922 Год назад

If you had a conscious, you could never become a politician.

@ceecee130847 Год назад

@@wot4922 Not a Tory one anyway

@marugmad Год назад

Wait, can’t we just use the 350 million a week the country gained from Brexit to pay more to NHS staff….this was the top selling theme to exit, wasn’t it?

@Silverbeardedsurfer Год назад

Must be true, I read it on a bus.

@wreckless50 Год назад

According to reesmogg the NHS have got that money!

@earthman6700 Год назад

They lied.

@kiwihib Год назад

Sorry, it was eaten by the unicorns in the sunlight uplands that somehow will not grow any grass to feed them.

@michaelsproat3363 Год назад

Shame really the Pandemic cost the UK only 376 billion, not sure the bus had mystic Meg on board..

@willrogersmusic Год назад

Let's not forget barristers threatened strike action and got 15% almost straight away. There's enough money to send poor people to prison but not enough to keep them alive

@simonchesterfield7517 Год назад

Practically within days!

@ppo2424 Год назад

You have no idea what those barristers were making do you.

@reevs2153 Год назад

The barristers were striking in order to raise the legal aid rates so they were defending poor people

@mickeypye2593 Год назад

@@ppo2424 IVE YET TO MEET A POOR BARRISTER ? - HAVE YOU ?

@reggied1250 Год назад

@@mickeypye2593 how comes? You know so many barristers the only ones I've ever known are those that defend poor people in courtrooms where the law is stacked against the poor

@suemckenzie579 Год назад

Thank you James. Expressing rage at injustice with the passion that so many of us feel but can't articulate. Just thank you.

@MrRailjunkie Год назад

This right here James is exactly why I listen to you as often as I can. Keep up the great work!

@orchidhouse297 Год назад

August 2022 my wife waited ten hours over night lying on a stone floor with a wrist broken in two places. No strike then. Three years ago our eighty year old neighbour had a fall at 9.00 am in her bathroom and was in too much pain to move. The ambulance did not arrive until 6.00 pm. No strike then either. Under funding lies at the government's door.

@stephenisom6089 Год назад

but they arrived your mended it cost you nothing,,our nhs is getting half a million new patients coming every year we can not cope .check government figures.and each migrant cost 25000 a year .that money should go into the health service .half a million new patients no nurses no doctors ,the ,,eu has crippled us ,,

@gratefulkm Год назад

@@stephenisom6089 STOP LYING

@incandescentwithrage Год назад

Not to be obtuse, but why did your wife lie on the floor for 10 hours with a broken *wrist* ? Labour aren't going to be the saviour of the NHS either unfortunately. My partner broke her leg in 4 places in 2021 (Wales - Labour). 14hrs later ambulance control finally decided they weren't coming *at all* and I had to carry her down steps to the car, making it worse in the process.

@gratefulkm Год назад

@@incandescentwithrage Its a Tory Government, the NHS is funded by the Government, The Local council has absolutely nothing at all to do with it Do you understand the local authority gets to spend what the Tory government gives it If you are Labour the spiteful Blue Bloods give less money Like Liverpool is the least funded place in Britain by the Government , because its red through and through

@stephenisom6089 Год назад

@@gratefulkm kevin im not lying i wish it were different its not .mind how you go cheers

@Sye55 Год назад

Totally agree with you James - I’ve been waiting for almost 4yrs for life-saving/changing surgery - and I support this industrial action! Give these workers exactly what they’re asking for - they have more than earned it. 👍

@kathleenotoole9320 Год назад

Well said James agree with every word

@donaldellis3609 Год назад

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@ja-uk5264 Год назад

I'm a big supporter of the nurses and ambulance team. They deserve everything they asked for no joke. My daughter was born premature and was in the hospital for almost 6 months. So I know how important they are by just walking in that hospital day in day out. The government don't care about the people they only care about they investors.

@ppo2424 Год назад

Lots of people are important, from builders to dustmen, Nurses get enough.

@BadgerBoy59 Год назад

@@ppo2424 Every job is important to some degree, but I think being in a profession where you're helping people to stay alive and recover from illness and injury deserves far more than the years of below-inflation increases they've been receiving thus far.

@uniteddreamer Год назад

@@ppo2424 so they deserve to have their pay cut? Because that's what the government is doing. You think that's ok? So rather than pay them a reasonable pay rise you'd rather lap up the Tory lies. What a worthless human being you sound like.

@ppo2424 Год назад

@@BadgerBoy59 I don't. not when they average £36kpa and those increase don't include their band increases.

@BadgerBoy59 Год назад

@@ppo2424 So even though junior nurses and nurses in lower bands get far less than £36kpa and their wages haven't even risen in-line with inflation for 12 years (so they're getting a real-terms pay cut), why do you think that such an important job doesn't deserve more pay across all levels of their profession?

@utopiate75 Год назад

At least there is a voice remaining in the media that calls it for what it is. Thankyou Mr O'Brien, please continue.

@johnharris5381 Год назад

Absolutely spot on. This analysis should be broadcast on every news bulletin to make people sit up and realise what this government is about.

@cameronclarkhull Год назад

I work for the NHS (not a doctor) but our staff are burnt out and so upset. Never thought I'd say it but every single NHS trust needs to strike and back each other, and the general public need to be out there supporting the nurses. They can't even feed their own families

@themightydash1714 Год назад

They cant feed their families? On 37.5k for 37.5hrs a week? And what about those people on minimum wage? doing 45hrs a week, for £18k??? How do they manage it???? If NHS staff get a rise, it increases inflation, which makes the genuinely poor POORER. They DONT need a pay rise at all, they need to learn to budget. LIKE THE REST OF US DO.

@jeeves6490 Год назад

@@themightydash1714 So, years of education, constant requalifications, shifts disrupting family and social lives, constant responsibility for other peoples very lives is worth the same as minimum wage? Not even counting the physical issues that are directly caused by the work place or the constant risk of assault by patients or their hangers on.

@jocondie2069 Год назад

@@themightydash1714 Hope you never have a mighty dash to A&E or any of your loved ones wouldn’t like to be the poor unfortunate nurse looking after you ffs!!!!

@frogandspanner Год назад

Tories think that everybody is the same as they are, so it would never occur to them that people can be compassionate. They mistake compassion for weakness, and their view is that weakness is a flaw that should be eradicated by strong medicine, such as real-term pay cuts.

@Draekal Год назад

Lack of empathy is their biggest flaw.

@johnrussell3961 Год назад

The pay body came up with a figure of 4%…back in January. A lot has happened since January. Even if nurses survived to next January, the Tories would reject the pay body saying they should get over 10%.

@kiwihib Год назад

Not weakness but wokeness, they always to have woke in any arguments.

@johnrussell3961 Год назад

@@kiwihib . It’s derived from being awake to the plight of black Americans. The Tories are asleep to the plight of anyone but themselves.

@maynardmckillen9228 Год назад

These are descriptions of pathological behavior. "Tory" has become a synonym for social disease and dysfunction.

@ianmycroft6979 Год назад

The fact is, the Tories don't want to sort out the NHS. They want to fully privatise it!!

@chatham43 Год назад

.of course they do..a real vote winner...😀

@dimitrius-r5sgamingchannel388 Год назад

@@chatham43 not a vote winner for me

@dennishopper1410 Год назад

Don’t forget that many of the nurses, doctors and administrators in the NHS are striking specifically because they feel that patient care is being jeopardised in the current state. Striking is an act of compassion

@michaelcaffrey1297 Год назад

Impressive James! You summed up everything up perfectly 👍🏻

@anthonymcloughlin2634 Год назад

Well said Mr O’Brien very well said.

@nick1065 Год назад

😂

@isbestlizard Год назад

This is exactly what the tories are. The layers of misdirection and lies have been stripped away and this is their soul. Pure twisted black cruelty.

@nick1065 Год назад

How can O’Brien ‘destroy’ him without having a debate with him? Bit like ‘winning’ a one man race. Or is that just another example of how delusional folk here really are?

@mrsteve3101 Год назад

It's not the tories, it's the globalists, like the WEF, WHO etc. etc. Tories, labour, Lib Dems, they're all on the same team. When did you last hear any opposition? for anything? What little you might hear is just theatre, a puppet show. They will all do what they're told to do, by the global elite, not the people.

@chatham43 Год назад

...grow up....

@naztubes Год назад

So true

@TheMrReee Год назад

Well said, if only the British public would wake up and see what's happening! 😡

@TheSurrealWolf Год назад

I think they are. On this particular issue very few are on the side of government

@PpPp-ku4sy Год назад

Everyone knows what going on mate . But who cares .. no one can do anything about it..

@1inchPunchBowl Год назад

@@PpPp-ku4sy Vote them out at the next GE?

@entx8491 Год назад

@@PpPp-ku4sy if everyone knew we wouldn't have left the EU.

@TheSurrealWolf Год назад

@@PpPp-ku4sy course we can. Strikes strikes strikes

@clandestine9196 Год назад

Support is growing and will continue to grow. We support our nurses.

@ChienNoob Год назад

Thank you for voicing what so many of us are continually shouting at our t.v's. ❤

@stephenreeds3632 Год назад

Then vote them out. Protest en masse. It worked over the Poll Tax.

@terencemeikle534 Год назад

Callousness + Cretinousness = just about the most fearsome combo there could be. Nothing scarier than a brain-dead bully for a government. 😨

@nick1065 Год назад

Or a brain dead bully of a presenter

@Alex-cw3rz Год назад

Just remember they are saying we need to replace the NHS because it's costs to much, yet the countries they say we should emulate, France, Germany and the USA. Well French spend 22% more, Germany 38% and the USA 400% more on healthcare per person than we do. It's bizarre that we should go to a different model because "it costs too much" when the alternative systems we are proposing all cost significantly more. They cost so much more because the NHS has massive economies of scale and in the USA you pay for the profit and advertising budgets.

@malleyne2004 Год назад

You need to keep your NHS. This is from someone who lives in the us.

@alexanderstefanov6474 Год назад

The US has the worst healthcare system of any developed country. They spend 400% more and yet they're 32nd in the world for outcomes. Not to mention 90% of bankruptcy in the US is for medical expenses

@patrickjordan2233 Год назад

The BY Far And Leading Away #1 listed cause of personal bankruptcy filings in the USA? "Medical Debt". And second place isn't even close... Absolutely soul crushing debt... Particularly for "gappers" who can't afford insurance AND get taxed for not having "profit generating" private insurance carriers. "Profitizing" misery and death and suffering for shareholder's "profit...is IMO, simply wrong-hearted? Imagine, a Tory MP lying? 😂😂

@davidwright7193 Год назад

It is far worse than that. Have you any idea how much it costs to issue an itemised bill for healthcare and a then ensure it is paid? Or even worse to get an insurance company to pay it? Just those activities in the US will cost more than entire NHS budget. It costs a lot for a death panel, sorry Health Management Organisation is the pc term, to employ the doctors whose sole job is to ensure you do not receive the care you need.

@deanc486 Год назад

can people not see that free at the point of service can't be beaten. Pay for it and it will look after you.

@stoneage3228 Год назад

So sad but perfectly said James.

@gillmae5223 Год назад

You are spot on. The tories cannot sink any lower than they have.

@naztubes Год назад

Thank you for articulating this. You are speaking the minds of us all.

@paul8161 Год назад

Sack that MP steve Barclay if he genuinely said that any and other cretiness MP if they did to...that's a new low even for them.

@davidsandz2186 Год назад

Sadly the only people who could sack disgusting entities like Barclay are just as disgusting....they have to be voted out!

@paul8161 Год назад

@@davidsandz2186 100 % agree.. .I guess the only way he could be fired if the pm did it but obviously there sadly both as bad as each other.

@emir4ofabj397 Год назад

Sacking him makes no difference. Another incompetent Tory will still come in. The solution is voting the Tories out

@paul8161 Год назад

@@emir4ofabj397 yes it is. 👍

@Maraaha55 Год назад

Of course they did. Every single time there has been a pay demand and refusal by the govt to negotiate, in respect of any care workers at ALL (including medical and ambulance staff working to rule) they have consistently said the workers will be responsible for harm to the patients. So no surprises here.

@carldori6172 Год назад

Superb commentary, please continue.

@PpPp-ku4sy Год назад

All talk no action

@b62boom1 Год назад

@@PpPp-ku4sy do you get paid for doing this?

@stephenisom6089 Год назад

@@b62boom1 he is rich he is an im all right jack... ,so he preaches to remoners ,,if he sang ive got a lovely bunch of coconuts backwards,these idiots on this site would think it was a profound message and agree at his prowess in talking to himself .he is a closet tory. pretending to be a french peasant ..simple as that ..

@abdulmismail Год назад

This is what happens when this country had the choice of voting for someone who would have saved the NHS, not clap for them - or Boris Johnson.

@markturton3093 Год назад

James O'brien, I am very proud as I Ambulance technician to listen to your program today. You're one of the few news outlets to say it as it is and for this I thank you

@Aussiemarco Год назад

And Rees-Mogg lied (yet again) on Question Time that the NHS is receiving the £350 million a week that was splattered all over Odious Johnson’s bus. THAT is truly disgusting.

@hassankafy7787 Год назад

Dont even mention his name,

@sarahb2040 Год назад

It probably is, but you can bet it's not being spent on frontline staff or services.

@obtuse1291 Год назад

"Blood on their hands" say the tory party of the nurses, the party that said "let the bodies pile high"? Well whip me with a feather.

@ForzaMilan-di2zd Год назад

Let’s just hope Barclay doesn’t need any help, because I wouldn’t rush to help him. Not an emergency 999 call to me 🤬

@chatham43 Год назад

....yep....and they certainly meant it.....😂😂😂

@JoseOrtiz-pc6mg Год назад

Now THAT'S journalism!!!!!!

@nick1065 Год назад

That’s activism!!!!!!!

@JoseOrtiz-pc6mg Год назад

@@nick1065 I think you need to learn the meaning of "activism", my friend.

@eradeziel Год назад

I agree 100% with this sentiment. I'm also utterly disgusted by these Tories, such arrogance from them. What kind of people shaft health workers?? Their governance is an absolute travesty, the whole thing gets worse by the year and it just feels like a bad dream at this point. We're living in what's starting to seem like perpetually tough times already (which only seem to ever get worse), and all the while under a government acting brazenly hostile towards its own citizens.

@petercreed2539 Год назад

This government never listens so direct action is all that’s left

@PicturebikeMXphotography Год назад

Perfectly summed up James, do we really have to wait 2 years before we can vote out these pigs : /

@UnstoppableInc Год назад

No, actually you don't. All you Brits need to do is to go out in millions blocking London for days and weeks with a General strike. Nobody goes to work, nobody does nothing else apart from a multi-million protest in middle of London until they go away. And they will as that would leave them with no other choice.

@stephenisom6089 Год назад

@@UnstoppableInc is that what you did ..NOT childish tosh..

@chatham43 Год назад

....you could take to the streets...but that would mean leaving your bedroom....

@mareksieczko7329 Год назад

I can’t wait till we’re rid of the tories too however is labour a credible opposition anymore? I worry it’s a false dichotomy and we’ll still be voting for our own demise.

@stephenreeds3632 Год назад

The depressing thing is that the Tory press will mention immigration and they'll get back in. And then this country, of which I used to be proud, is ruined for ever. And all the Labour Party seem to do is fight amongst themselves. Come on, Starmer, fight back.

@alantheinquirer7658 Год назад

The Health Secretary - either intentionally or accidentally - shows that he has NO IDEA of the concept of negotiation. "We can't afford 19% so we refuse to talk or compromise. These strikes are pointless!" They don't want to reform or re-build the NHS ... they want the demolition of it and selling to private developers.

@gernolan6932 Год назад

Oh he knows .. but he wants to appeal to the likes of the Tory voting boomer who castigated medical staff for going on strike .. Blakey has his ghoulish supporters .. they just don’t listen to JoB

@kenabiss1 Год назад

These ministers need to be accountable for the loss of lives that will inevitably result from the strikes and the lack of desire to pay the nurses what they deserve along with providing the working environment they need to provide the care they wish to give.

@terencehill1971 Год назад

Funny, that's what the IRA used to say when they planted bombs. Co-incidentally almost all the Union chiefs and organisers are Irish.

@nickryder9669 Год назад

@@terencehill1971 gosh no union leaders have said let the bodies pile high ! That’s down to a Tory PM who thought nothing of spending £220,000 ( receipts still coming in hidden ) plus £30 ,000 to decorate !

@terencehill1971 Год назад

@@nickryder9669 Can't you afford a TV set? The comment has been made a dozen times this week by Union officials "If people die it will be the Government'fault£ on the BBC, Sky, ITV, Ch4, GB News and Talk radio, most recently today at 13h00.

@stephenbradfield3873 Год назад

Lol the only people who who will have blood on their hands will be the strikers.

@b62boom1 Год назад

@@stephenbradfield3873 pipe down Baron Von Gammonly Edgelord. Your Toriness is hanging out.

@loiszhande5321 Год назад

I hope people all over the UK subscribe and listen to LBC, James you have explained it all so well, in the most simplified way that all can understand. Thank you .

@Emanon... Год назад

I'm not a Brit, I'm a Dane (and an MD). The whole reason for the strike is exactly that horrors and tragedies already are unfolding due to staff shortage and underfunding of the NHS. We're in a bit of the same state here in DK where the nurses were shafted during their strike, and guess what, the lack of nurses has only increased and record few are training to become nurses... A cautionary tale.

@chiefkc1306 Год назад

I don't know what to call myself. A student nurse, or a future striking nurse 🤣. No wonder nurses are leaving the profession. It's an honour to look after ill people, who are trusting you at their most vulnerable. But you still have bills to pay and a family to look after. You can't do that on people's gratitude.

@bogdiworksV2 Год назад

maybe we should clap at the till instead of paying for groceries and clap at the landlord instead of paying rent. Also, clap instead of paying taxes (since we can't afford solicitors to find loopholes for us). Most of all, I guess we should clap instead of voting because the system is clearly rigged.

@7rob27 Год назад

We all know the Tories state of mind when it comes to help the average non rich people: “Let the bodies pile high.”

@chatham43 Год назад

...or Labour when they said no more money left in 2010 ......excellent work.....

@geordiebatt Год назад

I wonder why no Tory ministers ever go on to James' show for a debate?.

@nick1065 Год назад

Because the coward doesn’t invite them on.

@terencehill1971 Год назад

@@nick1065 He also does not debate--he rants! Why do you think that he lost his gigs on BBC Newsnight and Channel 4? When Farage and Katy Hopkin were on LBC he worked night and day to have them sacked--no alternative view allowed comrade. He is also a mentally ill Irish foundling which explains a lot.

@nick1065 Год назад

@@terencehill1971 Indeed Terence….but for some reason your comment has been removed.Wonder why? 1,2,3,4,5 Jobby’s censors working overtime!

@AlBundyOz Год назад

@@nick1065 I've seen him nearly every show asking that very question! But then again someone like you calling a successful LOVED (google that word sweetie) person a coward is absolutely fu*king hilarious. And sad. Very very sad. Hey! Call a health professional if you feeling worthless! Oh, yeah, you hate health workers..............................

@DesL488 Год назад

@@nick1065Yeah right(!)

@marcelbrad715 Год назад

I'm so happy to listen to you almost every day .....♥️

@bencornish6910 Год назад

Thank you for stating this so baldly. This government is utterly repulsive.

@philipwilkinson988 Год назад

From our wonderful NHS let's all clap the nurses to now let's vilify them for wanting more money in a cost of living crisis.Who'd have thought that from those lovely Tories.

@Veeger Год назад

The "clap" was hollow praise from the blo jo government. It's not money in your pocket though is it?

@tezzajonno6271 Год назад

The Tories aren’t responsible for covid or the war in Ukraine. Wake up.

@Silverbeardedsurfer Год назад

@@Veeger It was a sign of respect and gratitude from a multitude who struggle to express any other way. If I could give them a pay rise, I would.

@petyrkowalski9887 Год назад

And steal money for PPE and give it to their mates

@nickryder9669 Год назад

@@Veeger lots & lots of money gone to the Likes of the Mones ! A company set up to take money from the NHS ( £ 68 million ) went to the Mones but the company is worth only £4 million so the company goes bump and the Mones keep the money ! Times this by thousands and you wonder why there is no money left for nurses !

@100notnews7 Год назад

For someone as talentless and pointless as Barclay to attack people who contribute so much is just crazy. I can't believe the government think these attacks will work. It's beyond cretinous.

@jeffworthington9286 Год назад

James well said could not put it any better. Absolute horrible government, they are leaving it ungovernable for anyone else who takes over.

@patbaldwinson8137 Год назад

Yes! Thanks for saying it like it is, James.😊

@proffessorclueless Год назад

It is starting to feel like we are living through a horror movie. Even James O'Brien has run out of words to express his outrage.

@andrewwarren4206 Год назад

Thank you for your work James. Words needed to be said.

@nick1065 Год назад

💨

@tonyliddle4099 Год назад

I hope everyone gets to see this, back the nurses and get rid of these people who know better than we do, this government is a disgrace

@jockmaxwell8200 Год назад

Bravo James,,Thanks for your help in getting me through these difficult times mate,,you are spot on,these people are truly disgusting…

@deadbadger4735 Год назад

Absolutely amazing ....Nobody I repeat nobody has said it as well as this . Thank you James I can’t thank you enough .

@annishilcock4587 Год назад

I thought Suella Braverman was the lowest theTory party would stoop, but Steve Barclay has set a new low

@stephenwebster1368 Год назад

Yes but at least she's trying to get something done on immigration they ALL need to go back now ok

@alexanderstefanov6474 Год назад

@@stephenwebster1368she can go back from whence she came too. She's not European

@annishilcock4587 Год назад

@@stephenwebster1368 OK stephen if it's something you dream of for Christmas too.

@bobmartin7399 Год назад

How quickly the nurses' and ambulance staff's dedication, sacrifice and devotion has been forgotten. Anyone who clapped in 2020 should be right behind them.

@wonkysfishingtales Год назад

I was on the strike in the 80’s with my father and grandfather for the Ambulance service, Tories were in power then and I have a huge hatred for the lies they pedal and the criminality that goes on in that party! Totally agree with you James on every point.

@markrobinson1458 Год назад

Let's see where these so called politicians stand when their pay rise is due, they're never short of a bob or two 🤬

@aaronmurray9152 Год назад

Nhs workers rail workers ambulance drivers all of you striking right now. Do not give up do no not falter we support you, it maybe hard but please for the sake of the uk please stay steadfast. 🙏🏾

@stephenisom6089 Год назад

aron murray wants to pay way more tax ,for you to have a big pay rise ,,all remoaner should pay more tax if that.s how really feel but er they don,t.. talk is very very cheep..

@aaronmurray9152 Год назад

@@stephenisom6089 how do you spell my name wrong when it's literally there in front of you. On that note you clearly have no sense and arguing with you is clearly beneath me.

@riversguy92 Год назад

@@stephenisom6089 I’m so embarrassed for you that this was your contribution to this discussion.

@stephenisom6089 Год назад

why

@riversguy92 Год назад

@@stephenisom6089 other than the typos? The assumption that the OP voted remain? The fact that you didn’t bother addressing any of his points ?The misunderstanding of our tax system and how our taxes are used? I guess other than that you did brilliantly

@LiveDonkeyDeadLion Год назад

If you’re wondering who Steve Barclay is May I refer you to the reason Krishna’s Guru-Murthy was suspended from channel 4 news as he summed Barclay up perfectly

@chatham43 Год назад

....you mean that misogynistic term he used....?......JC would have been proud...😊

@LiveDonkeyDeadLion Год назад

@@chatham43 I have a strong feeling you do not know what this refers to

@siendbhcixisj Год назад

Rishi is loving it. Potential to break the NHS and his £300 million investment in Moderna years ago going well to plan. WEF must be proud of their boy.

@katiePetsy Год назад

I honestly think he'd get lynched if he dismantled the nhs

@siendbhcixisj Год назад

@@katiePetsy you would think, but people have became too complacent, our smart phones are dumbing the nation down just as designed, the markets are all going too seriously crash soon, rishi will say there is no alternative though there are plenty

@Bravemarbles Год назад

That Tory health secretary is just revolting. Well said James!

@leonkeogh8554 Год назад

I'm a Paramedic who voted for strike action and James is very on point in this segment. The alternative to industrial action is to participate meekly in the slow and painful dissolution of the NHS. James is correct that people are suffering and losing their lives as a direct result of chronic NHS underfunding. The Ambulance Service I work for has been operating under critical measures for so long now, the needle is stuck on red and we can't go on like this; hence the strikes. Please support us if you value the work we do.

@chrisr3570 Год назад

Exactly the same questions/statements the government have made about be thrown thrown right back at them because of their conduct regarding the NHS over the last 12 years

@patrickjp2821 Год назад

This government has to go !!!!!!!!!!!!! It's broken!!!!!!!!!

@wardropper Год назад

Show me one that isn't...

@DavidEvans1958 Год назад

James has hit the nail on the head with this.

@sallyann4660 Год назад

Thank you I work on emergency medicine Thank you for telling it as it is . your monologue helps me and many others feel supported at these trying times . Ps can you ask all your listeners to wear a mask if they have health problems last night all I cared for was covid and fluA . My aim is keep the like minded people alive = more people to vote out the Tories

@robertjsmith Год назад

Thanks James for keeping us in touch with what they up to

@Silverbeardedsurfer Год назад

Yet again, couldn't agree more.

@WVislandia Год назад

Well said! Completely agree with your views! I support our hard-working NHS, rail staff, ambulance staff, teachers. If they choose to strike, that is their right and I am not going to throw any labels at them. They are human beings who are facing unreasonable costs and needing help to pay those and also aware that their areas of employment have real safety concerns. I will not stand on the side of Barclay or Sunak or any of the UK government. Well said, James O'Brien!

@deanc486 Год назад

The private sector is the aim of the Tories. It always has been. The NHS is something to be proud of. Please don't think without support it will remain for much longer. These people don't strike on a whim.

@nick1065 Год назад

🤮

@dubwavefm3834 Год назад

@@nick1065tory troll what a surprise 🙄

@neilchapman4037 Год назад

Proud of? Its a complete shambles.

@deanc486 Год назад

@@neilchapman4037 I didn't think so when it saved the life of my wife. When I needed it it was there. It saddens me to watch its demise.

@deanc486 Год назад

@@nick1065 Why are you bitter Nick?

@MintaCreativeArts Год назад

BRAVO JAMES for calling out these monsters in Parliament

@timothysmart8528 Год назад

James, you say what everyone is thinking. Well done.

@craigsmith7457 Год назад

Our union are going in with a figure of around 15% in the new year pay negotiations ready for the new financial year in April. We know full well we wont get 15% but we go in with that figure, the firm then low ball us and we inevitably meet someone in the middle! Anyone outraged that 19% is 'too much' clearly doesn't understand how negotiation actually works!

@blue47er Год назад

Shame on the nurses and ambulance staff. Can't they realise that, should they get a substantial pay increase, this could mean the government will have to withdraw their recent pledge to remove the limits on bankers' bonuses? The same bankeers who brought us the benefits of the 2008 financial crash.......

@marvintpandroid2213 Год назад

Its something when you need to re-read something to know for sure its sarcasm. You sound like the swivel eyed loons that sometimes call in. 👍

@fionabarr6064 Год назад

I’m ashamed to say I voted conservative NEVER again. I feel I have personally harmed each and every member of the NHS. I’m so sorry please,please forgive me.

@rogergreen2695 Год назад

I hope you are not alone. How can any, even self respecting ,voter think of putting a cross against a conservative candidate in any election from now on? Shame to the BBC and Sky for promoting the Tory thinking in their programmes 'tomorrow's papers'.

@ForzaMilan-di2zd Год назад

I’m amazed how anyone votes for these wankers, who isn’t wealthy yourself. Tories thru out history only look after the rich

@fionabarr6064 Год назад

@@ForzaMilan-di2zd I’m on universal credit and I hoped for life to be made easier for me. Sadly I believed their lies 😡😡

@stephenisom6089 Год назад

@@fionabarr6064 become a nurse if you can ..lots of jobs .

@fionabarr6064 Год назад

@@stephenisom6089 Sadly I would but I forgot to put in my message I’m 60 and disabled. Blind in one eye, epileptic, unable to walk without a frame, arthritis in my spine so physio has prescribed hydrotherapy and n to bore you with more details have resorted to going out on a mobility scooter with carers. Thanks for pointing me to the job centre though

@JRattheranch Год назад

We simply don't deserve this "government", on any level!

@oriel9347 Год назад

Yeah you do, until you DO something about it !

@johnwright9372 Год назад

Those who vote for them DO deserve what they get. Shame that they inflict their stupidity on everyone else.

@stepheng8779 Год назад

Those who voted for it do, reap it, reap it all!!

@kevinGB319 Год назад

@@stepheng8779 so much better than Liebour

@janwallace5005 Год назад

You get the government you vote for.

@paultaylor7082 Год назад

Excellent comments James, couldn't agree more.

@superbravotwo Год назад

We hear today that the number of people who die in Ambulances has doubled in the last year 21/22! The problems we have today didn't start with nurses wanting a reasonable pay rise, It started in 2010 when the tories came to power!!!!! They belong in Jail!!!!

@chatham43 Год назад

....nice bit of outrage but a little OTT I would suggest which compromises your point somewhat......

@superbravotwo Год назад

@@chatham43 There's no outrage, I made a point, sorry you don't like it... Facts often offend right wingers... like you!

@rjy8960 Год назад

Bang on the money.

@robuk3723 Год назад

@bizarremagick Год назад

Wow, you really summed the situation up. Thanks and well done.

@michaelcash1675 Год назад

Brilliant! Such a truthful and heartfelt critique. How can these politicians live with themselves?

@diklongley01 Год назад

So viceral, concisely stated, and aligned with what 50%-60% of the public seem to be thinking too.

@dinah3525 Год назад

Very well said, James O’Brien!

@chrisspencer6502 Год назад

Remember when a father confronting Boris in a hospital about the care of his kid and he was dismissed as a labour plant

@superhumantrueman Год назад

"man who works in NHS linked to people that care about the NHS" isn't the gotcha you think it is. Also thanks for reminding me about the time Boris lied about there being no camera crew around, on camera, recorded by the crew standing in front of him.

@mickeypye2593 Год назад

DOESNT MATTER WHO THE FK HE WAS - BORIS WASNT DOING HIS JOB

@chatham43 Год назад

No need to shout Micky boy..😊

@mickeypye2593 Год назад

@@chatham43 THATS CALLED EMPHASIS CUPCAKE ;)