Junior Doctors Beware, there is a Jeremy Hunt er outside your door

You know we're on your side

come to negotiate my dears

I am sure you know the story of the 7 little kids and the big bad wolf who dressed up in a grandmother's clothes and put white flour on her wolf like mits in order to trick the innocent kids to open the door and let her in. This blogging Granny is on the inside of the door and with Grandpa is standing by you oh you kid doctors saying beware oh little kids BEWARE of the Hunt-er outside.  He is dressed up in his negotiating clothes and has floured his hands but I feel in my Granny bones that he is playing you into a corner.  This is what I think he may be after and it won't be good for you if I'm right.  He wants to get you into a position where he appears to be the innocent negotiator and you are the wicked ones who don't care about your patients.  We all think that he probably wants to privatise that national treasure, the National Health Service rather than face up to the fact that it must go through a very intelligent process to get it working for everyone even if we all have to pay a little more for it.  He wants to appear to negotiate with you which will be reported in the Press as a kind and open minded way of going forward when he really wants to squeeze you into a place where you still strike and then he will be able to paint you as Voldemort with an inky black heart, uncaring, idle, self-seeking shirkers upon whom he as saviour of the NHS will be bound to impose a contract.  You will be sad and cross and out of pocket in the long run and off you will have to go to New Zealand and Dubai and other parts of the world with your good training and your high set of values and then doctors trained in other places with other values will come in and take your place.  Believe me, and believe Grandpa, we don't want you to go.  We want the National Health Service to be funded properly and if Jeremy Hunt would like to call Grandpa he has a few good ideas for how he could do it.

It isn't too late but it maybe too late if you don't see who is really outside the door little kids.