#BURSARYORBUST

We are here specifically to fight for the economic conditions necessary for our nurses to survive and thrive. And our speakers are telling you how the government aims to sabotage that. This will lead to the breakup of the National Health. We are here to protest government propaganda and raise public consciousness by presenting the true picture.

The government is purposely deceiving people when they say we can’t afford the NHS.
There was even a phone in on BBC Radio 4 called Any Answers where the host was asking each caller “Specifically, how much extra tax would you pay each month to save the NHS?” One answer was “Well the NHS has saved my life four times so I would have given everything.” “No, I’m not asking you that. How much would you now pay each month? £50?” Of course we can afford the NHS. The government have got their priorities wrong. They protect the rich and harm the poor with their economic policy.

It is vital that we talk about the present economic system. It is called Monopoly Capitalism and it is run on fossil fuels which are finite. The more we continue to use them the nearer we are to mass extinction.

It is run by our government to create profit for a few people; for giant monopoly corporations like Shell, for giant food monopolies who ruin the soil and the seas and treat animals with horrendous inhuman cruelty.

It is designed to create poverty, it runs on austerity and cheap labour and provides opportunities which are anti people for investors. It is promoted by the Mainstream Media.

NGO’s fight for a green economy, which would reverse the damage and make us all rich again.

Right now we must fight to stop further continuous wrecking of the world which includes the break-up of the National Health. You, nurses and junior doctors, now that you have become activists must join the fight to stop fracking and the really big fight against TTIP which would take away all people power and freedom including the NHS. The aim of government is to privatise health care so that only rich people can afford it. Everything is connected.

“Medicine, nursing and other health related jobs are some of the most demanding in the world – physically and emotionally. As such the training that health workers undertake is rigorous, and rightly so. This government has dramatically underestimated the passion that these people have for care. They have tried to smear junior doctors as greedy and money obsessed, and they have tried to frame their removal of the student bursary as ‘best for students’. The attempt to undermine health care professions is a coordinated attack on the very fabric of the NHS. In attempting to destabilise the health service and discourage doctors and nurses from joining the profession, the government is preparing for its long term goal – privatisation. Defund, destabilise, sell-off. We cannot allow this to happen. If you support the nurses, if you support the doctors, you support the NHS.” James Emmett 

I was physically in a meeting about 2 weeks ago where Hunt was- and he talked about nurses ‘being able to do a shorter course’ – this is worrying as again, means the down-skilling of the workforce. Worrying for long-term patient safety.”  Lauren Gavaghan 

“The endgame is here. The NHS five year plan consists of massive cuts, devolution, asset and land sell-offs and closures: this is about profit, not patients” Youseff El-Gingihy 

“In other words, the government is prepared to do whatever it takes because opening up the NHS oyster of over £100 billion to global capital is a massive project” Youseff El-Gingihy

This Saturday 2/06/16 student nurses and healthcare professionals will march against the loss of their training bursaries.
Join us tomorrow outside St Thomas’ Hospital, London at 12pm, from where we’ll march across the bridge to parliament and on to Downing Street. John us – and say No to Bursary Cuts! #bursaryorbust