The government’s derisory 1% NHS offer shows they have no plans to rebalance the UK in favour of those who deserve better
As children across the UK return to school, to classrooms of varying ventilation and not-yet-necessarily-vaccinated teachers, as nurses swallow their real-terms pay cut and carry on working, a pattern emerges: this is a government crossing the road to start a fight.
It would not have involved a vast recalibration to add teachers to the priority list for vaccinations. Indeed, given that the vaccine is all that stands between us and the pandemic worsening, and as we watch schools reopening with bated breath to see what it does to transmission, it would have been eminently plausible to make the public health case for giving teachers a jab, without even muddying the waters with questions of gratitude or how left wing their unions are.
