TCLP-UK agrees with the Health Secretary that strikes must be called off before meaningful talks can take place between the government and the British Medical Association. The government cannot negotiate with a gun pointed at not only its head but that which has widespread repercussions on patient care in the National Health Service.
The art of negotiations is gentle persuasion, and if the workers do not adhere to this peaceful means of persuasion, let them strike, bring more overseas doctors to replace them in the National Health Service for no one is indispensable. This the strikers should realise.
