Jeremy Hunt wants junior doctors vilified, but everybody’s love bombing them instead

‘The standard technique of privatisation, Noam Chomsky once said, is to “defund, make sure things don’t work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.” But health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s attempts to undermine public confidence in the NHS and its workers – particularly its junior doctors – appear to be failing. As they prepare to take the first mass strike action by doctors in Britain for 40 years on Tuesday, England’s junior doctors are being met not with anger, but with outpourings of support.

Healthcare professionals have been near unanimous in their support for junior doctors in the run-up to the strike; a Guardian poll found that a staggering 95% of them support strike action. This week, thousands of NHS staff – from paramedics, nurses and care support workers to porters, medical scientists and secretaries – pledged their support in a letter published in The Independent:’

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