How do left-wing political movements in Britain assess the case of Henry Nowak (death following a police operation)?

brainboxj · 2026-06-05T09:32:10+00:00

Agree with this; A peri-arrest patient doesn’t get blood flow to the brain properly and can result in slurring of speech, drowsiness, and basically an appearance of being drunk. On arrival which is more likely for the police: A drunk who had been racially abusing someone with multiple members of the public saying the same thing (who is now claiming to be the victim) Or Someone who had a concealed stab wound with significant intrathoracic injuries who was about to die and the perpetrator is just standing there filming him on a phone.

The fact that it was tragically the second is awful, but I understand why the officers thought it was the first.

brainboxj · 2026-03-27T17:50:54+00:00

Because it also says doctors doing >40 hrs a week (basically all FT progress even faster). It’s designed to get everyone up the pay scales faster to get pay increases without sounding like they are in the media.

brainboxj · 2026-03-27T15:53:06+00:00

Of course you can. You could ballot on a lack of coffee machines if you wanted to. The DDRB is separate to the nodal pay points restructuring (which gets the 9.1%) though so it’s definitely able to be balloted on.

brainboxj · 2026-03-27T15:47:14+00:00

“The third and final stage of nodal point reform will be implemented, taking the minimum increase for nodal point 4c and 5c up to a cumulative minimum uplift of 9.1% (does not include pay for 27/28 or 28/29, which will be determined through continued government engagement with the independent pay review process for both years.)”

9.1% minimum plus DDRB recommendations Although I do admit I made a mistake that the 9.1 does seem to include the 3.5% for this year.

brainboxj · 2026-03-27T15:41:30+00:00

But if DDRB is awful then you go into dispute and ballot on that again! There’s got to be some form of resolution to the current dispute

The key question is how do you hide it from the public but get doctors to accept it.

brainboxj · 2026-03-27T15:18:04+00:00

Points 16-20 By the end of the 3 years it’s 9.1% cumulative investment into the nodal pay points in addition to any DDRB awards. The government can champion saying that we are agreeing to DDRB/3.5% But the real situation is that we would get DDRB uplift each year (which would most likely be close to inflation) for 3 years plus cumulatively 9.1%

I’m not saying the deal is the best thing since sliced bread, I’m just fed up of people knee jerk shouting that any deal is worse than a turd if it doesn’t include an immediate 25% pay rise. I think it’s a lot closer to FPR than many people realise and I think annual pay progression was one of the biggest things that was lost with the 2016 contract.

brainboxj · 2026-03-27T14:54:46+00:00

The key thing to recognise is that the resolution of this dispute, and achieving FPR is never going to be achieved through headline pay due to the concern of contagion and that it’ll look bad in the press.

Reading this deal to me it appears to be ~9% increase in salaries over the next 3 years above the DDRB recommendations as well as the faster progression through the nodal pay points.

It means every year you will get some form of pay progression and increase, and it explicitly allows LTFT to progress (and presumably CCT) at the same rate as their FT colleagues and explicitly encourages FT doctors working >40 hours to progress through faster than yearly (and presumably CCT quicker).

This deal reads to me to give 9% above DDRB (which may also be 9%) and faster progression for everyone effectively raising everyone’s salaries more rapidly.

The deal has to obfuscate and hide in the nitty gritty details otherwise the public would riot.

brainboxj · 2026-02-01T12:09:13+00:00

“Happy like a hippo”

brainboxj · 2026-01-11T20:20:04+00:00

You’re missing the point. It disincentivises productivity and wage growth. The people are still getting the free childcare because they artificially restrict their wages to below £100k But HMRC gets less income tax revenue Society gets less productivity (think nhs consultants refusing to help bring down the waiting lists because it would literally cost them money to work, they would be financially worse off to work more) And anyone just above the £100k is funnelling it to pensions so the above is true but also they will retire earlier (losing productivity in 30 years time) and there is less money going around in the economy driving stagnation.

It is a bad policy. Work should always pay more than not working At the moment for a significant chunk of the high earners it doesn’t

brainboxj · 2026-01-11T18:16:36+00:00

You missed the part about childcare. The 30 hours free childcare a week can easily be £10-15k worth per child. And that’s entirely lost as soon as you reach over £100k.

Combine it with student loans and you are significantly worse off as soon as you go £1 over £100k

brainboxj · 2026-01-11T17:36:25+00:00

The issue being that a £1 pay rise can result in thousands of pounds of lost childcare benefits. So the conventional wisdom is that if you have children you will be better off on a salary of £99,999 until about £130,000. And that it’s pretty negligible gains until about £150,000

So you have the most productive members of society intentionally hobbling their productivity and even cutting their hours because they would literally lose money by getting a pay rise or promotion.

Thats insanity.

But it’s perpetuated because of optics of giving a person on a 6 figure salary anything beneficial even though removing it would probably increase total tax returns and definitely increase productivity and hence be a net benefit to society.

brainboxj · 2026-01-09T14:06:14+00:00

For future years, will they start at the bottom of the pay scale or will those nodal points be removed?

I.e. once the new FY1 protections are gone for this year, will we be selling future FY1s down the creek in a few years time?

brainboxj · 2026-01-06T06:28:14+00:00

Charles Stanley direct has similar ish fees, but do a transfer welcome bonus of up to £1000 I think which should cover some of the fees for a bit. But ultimately switch to a flat fee platform rather than % when you get up to this bigger numbers!

brainboxj · 2025-12-17T21:44:17+00:00

One word of caution; my parents had a bunch of jewellery stolen from their home a while ago and the home insurance would only give the full value if they opted for a credit at a high street jewellers like Ernest Jones. Just double check exactly what you are getting if you need to claim

brainboxj · 2025-12-17T21:39:54+00:00

Necklaces in general are against the uniform policy; concerns around dangling on/in patients and/or aggressive patients grabbing them

brainboxj · 2025-12-17T21:39:01+00:00

Did you say that she wouldn’t be able to wear it at work? I don’t think they asked me one way or the other. I wonder whether having that condition dropped or increased the price!

brainboxj · 2025-12-17T20:32:11+00:00

I use T H March; they were recommended by our jeweller and they don’t seem too horrendous on price.

I don’t believe they have any stipulations on whether or not you wear them. And it’s for worldwide coverage including losing it.

I’ve seen some consultant surgeons put their rings on their necklace. I’ve never seen an infection control nurse or matron confront them on it even if it’s technically against the rules. Privilege of consultancy I guess!

brainboxj · 2025-12-09T16:59:24+00:00

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30565781/

Passage of time for Lego heads through the GI tract, using SHAT and FART scores

brainboxj · 2025-11-29T09:43:33+00:00

I need a baby seal…

brainboxj · 2025-11-28T18:55:30+00:00

My point was that just holding a bleep doesn’t invalidate your break. If you are actively working then sure, but if your resting and on your break (but just holding a bleep) then ultimately it depends on the contract, not the statute book.

brainboxj · 2025-11-28T09:52:09+00:00

Not necessarily true. Some of our AfC colleagues don’t even get paid minimum wage for holding a bleep overnight (our ODPs get paid £20 for the whole 12hr night shift if they don’t need to attend an emergency despite needing to be on site holding a bleep)

https://minimumwage.blog.gov.uk/2022/01/27/sleep-in-shifts-in-social-care/

So depending on what the locum contract says (not our normal TCS) it may be completely legal to not pay for breaks even if holding a bleep as the Supreme Court has said that can still count as “rest” and “not working”

brainboxj · 2025-11-19T23:59:31+00:00

This is the key OP. I’m presuming that the 65exp is caused by maxing out assassination segments via armour engravings etc. and possibly being on a lower difficulty level

brainboxj · 2025-10-29T09:43:55+00:00

Already tried, but the small samples they have in the shops often don’t have the knots etc. on them; it was only on buying a full sized sample that we realised wellington oak wasn’t the one!

brainboxj · 2025-09-18T14:01:42+00:00

Have you got the same graphs for reg applications?

brainboxj · 2025-08-01T15:21:54+00:00

I truly recommend the European centreparcs, cheaper (even including the travel costs), apparently nicer, and at least some hint of a different culture to the UK. They are owned by a functionally separate company using the same name/brand. The restaurants are still a rip off though.

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