happen afterwards.

When the government presented this contract to the Junior doctors, 99% of them were against it. However, the government decided they would go ahead with it anyway and, as a consequence, 16,000 Junior doctors applied for positions abroad in late 2015. Moreover, it is estimated that one third of GPs plan to retire in the next 5 years. This means that there is going to be a serious shortage in doctors unless drastic change is made.

On top of this, the government signed one of its largest ever privatisation deals in March 2015, worth over £780 million, whilst delivering £20 billion worth of cuts, further demoralising Junior doctors and further diminishing their resources.

There has been much controversy over the planned strike action, but I can tell you withwith bureaucrats on both sides of the Pacific, the outcome is a special kind of apologia, where the standard of merit is less Deng’s record as a politician in China than his contribution to peace of mind in America.
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Deng threw 11 Chinese armies or 450,000 troops, the size of the force that routed the US on the Yalu in 1950, against Vietnam, a country with a population a twentieth that of China. As the chief military historian of the campaign, Edward O’Dowd, has noted, ‘in the Korean War a similar-sized PLA force had moved further in 24 hours against a larger defending force than it moved in two weeks against fewer Vietnamese.’ So disastrous was the Chinese performance that all Deng’s wartime pep talks were expunged