Junior Docs, Uganda & Profit Sanctions: On Wednesday ninth March 2016 Junior Docs held a one-day strike over their claims for a greater deal from the NHS and I joined a rally exterior College School Hospital the place well being employees and commerce unionists confirmed assist and referred to as for an finish to the creeping privatisation of the NHS. Later in Trafalgar Sq. Ugandans have been protesting the rigged presidential elections. Lastly I went to the Dept of Work & Pensions to cowl a Nationwide Day of Motion towards Profit Sanctions, which regularly go away individuals with no technique of assist for typically trivial causes and have been by then identified to have led to not less than 95 deaths.
UCH rally for Junior Docs Strike – Euston Rd
Commerce unionists, medical workers in any respect ranges and different supporters joined the Junior Docs picket line exterior College School Hospital to indicate their assist.
They then held a rally throughout the street from the hospital, one in every of London’s largest on the busy Euston Street.
Junior medical doctors are totally skilled medical doctors in postgraduate coaching and gaining medical expertise to turn out to be members of the suitable Royal School of Medication. They could stay as junior medical doctors for round 8-20 years and are the biggest group of medical doctors working in our hospitals.
In 2023 the he British Medical Affiliation (BMA) determined it might not use the time period “junior physician” because it failed to point their excessive degree of abilities. In 2024 and as part of the settlement of their dispute which got here lastly after the election of a Labour authorities they have been renamed “resident medical doctors.”
On My London Diary I gave an extended record of a number of the audio system which point out the massive vary of assist for the junior medical doctors and their combat towards a Tory authorities that was decided to wreck the NHS in order that it may very well be totally privatised for the advantage of largely US-based well being care firms by which lots of them had a monetary curiosity.
Their intention was transfer in direction of a US-style insurance-based system – which might result in many people being unable to afford applicable remedy and to face monumental payments – healthcare is by far the biggest reason for chapter within the USA. It appears possible that Labour beneath Starmer will proceed to maneuver within the the identical route.
Personally I might be unable to get insurance coverage for my present long-term well being situations. The NHS has for over 22 years enabled me to steer a standard life with out cost to me and at a comparatively low value to the nation, whereas within the USA my persevering with remedy would by now have value me effectively over 1 / 4 of one million {dollars}.
UCH rally for Junior Docs Strike
Ugandans protest rigged Presidential Election – Uganda Excessive Fee
Many Ugandans consider that February 2016 elections that re-elecated Museeveni as president have been rigged and protesters exterior the Excessive Fee in Trafalgar Sq. demanded an impartial audit of the outcomes and referred to as for the quick launch of opposition candidate Dr Besigye and different political prisoners, in addition to motion towards these chargeable for torture.
The protest was organised by the Uganda Diaspora P10 UK, and FDC UK Chapter and was supported by the African LGBTI Out & Proud Diamond Group and Peter Tatchell Basis.
Yoweri Museveni has been in energy since 1986, however worldwide observers extensively reported widespread fraud and irregularities, with many citizens being unable to vote and the declared outcomes from many polling stations being very completely different from the precise votes. Opposition candidates have been repeatedly arrested and voters have been intimidated.
I arrived nearly on the finish of an hour-long protest in entrance of the Excessive Fee after which photographed them marching down Whitehall behind a Nigerian flag in direction of Downing St the place I left them.
Many extra photos at Ugandans protest rigged Presidential Election.
Unite towards Profit Sanctions – DWP, Caxton Home
Unite Neighborhood members had come to carry a protest exterior the DWP headquarters in Westminster as part of their Nationwide Day of Motion towards Profit Sanctions. There have been different protests at job centres in over 70 cities and cities.
Profit sanctions – intervals the place claimants lose their advantages – are sometimes imposed for trivial causes and people past the facility of claimants. They could be sanctioned for arriving late after buses have been cancelled or for not turning up when letters calling them to an appointment haven’t arrived in time or have been misplaced within the submit.
As I commented, “Regardless of authorities denials, not less than 95 deaths are identified to have been on account of sanctions which go away individuals destitute and ravenous. Some, like David Clapson, have really starved to demise whereas others have been so determined that they’ve killed themselves. With out the efforts of the various meals banks the determine could be a lot increased.“
There was anger when a Unite Neighborhood speaker stated that the DWP’s insurance policies had failed. Didi Rossi of World Ladies’s Strike retorted that the DWP had been extraordinarily profitable of their assaults on the unemployed and disabled, and that the deaths have been the clear intention behind the insurance policies of Iain Duncan Smith.
Employees working for the DWP have been being given incentives and targets for giving sanctions. And the defective assessments administered for “health for work” and being stripped of advantages have been resulting in many deaths. Over 80 individuals a month have been dying shortly after this, most whereas interesting towards the choice. Greater than 2,500 sick and disabled profit claimants are identified to have died after being discovered ‘match for work’ in simply 2 years.
Extra at Unite towards Profit Sanctions.
David Clapson – Sanctioned to Loss of life – DWP, Caxton Home
A type of participating within the protest on the DWP was Gill Thompson, the sister of David Clapson, a diabetic ex-soldier who died ravenous and destitute as a result of he was penalised by the Job Centre for lacking a gathering.
She had come at hand in a petition to the DWP over his demise and this was handed to a DWP consultant along with one other petition with over 200,000 signatures between them calling for an inquest into his demise and an finish to unfair profit sanctions that go away claimants with out assist.
David Clapson – Sanctioned to Loss of life
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