Happy Christmas from Resident Doctors working for the basket case NHS! Britain might be penniless and broke but that hasn’t stopped those whose job is to literally keep the population alive from staging a disgraceful winter walkout.

When they desert their posts for five days between December 17 and 22 it will be the 14th strike by a group formerly known as junior doctors since March 2023 - despite an inflation-smashing pay rise. That’s an average round of industrial action every two months orchestrated by the militant British Medical Association.

Back in 2023 Professor Philip Banfield, the BMA’s then chair of council, said he was "truly sorry for the impact the strikes have on patients and staff working in the NHS”.

More than two years later sorry seems to be the hardest word.

His succ

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