I was in two minds about posting my entry yesterday. It is a piece of writing I had been working on for three or four days, and part of me thought I should save it to develop further, and blog about something else. I’m aware that, if I start ranting about religion too much, it will just get repetitive and people will stop reading my ramblings. I also know that there are plenty of other things I can write about here, not least the current strikes. Yet the problem with that is, where on Earth do I begin, and what can I possibly contribute? I therefore felt a bit apprehensive about blogging about it, so I wrote about something else entirely.

Of course I support the strikes, especially the nurses strike. We all now owe so much to the NHS; what NHS did for this country during the pandemic put it’s value beyond doubt. Of course it’s nurses deserve to be payed properly. Yet I’m quite sure anyone reading this will know that already: it’s blindingly obvious to anyone who looks at the situation that the Tories are slowly trying to run the health service into the ground so that they can eventually privatise it. The way in which they have been trying to turn public opinion away from it by demonising the nasty evil striking nurses should make that all the more apparent. Thus while I thoroughly support the nurses in their struggle for fair pay, I’m not sure there is anything I can say on here which would help their cause, which hasn’t already been expressed far more eloquently elsewhere. All I can really say is that the nurses have my unwavering support, and that I really hope they get the pay they deserve.