That Andy is because they studied for over seven years to get on the first rung of their choosen career. During the later years of that time they were required to work, often over a hundred hours a week on hospital wards for very little salary.

No they should not have gone on strike but neither should the government have torn up an agreed contract signed just a few years ago.

Perhaps if the government concentrated on hiring doctors that can speak English and are correctly qualified,rather than constant unjustified meddling in medical and education matters we would be better served.

Well, someone plainly doesn't know what hypocritical means.

For one thing, its not the first time they've been on strike, the last time was 37 years ago.

The second point is that they pay around 14% of their income into their pension plans around the same as other pensions. All that happens is that because they have a larger income, as you would expect a doctor to, they end up with a larger pension. I can't see a problem in striking for what you are entitled to and have paid into.

Its their right, simples!

I have to agree the government might like to try cutting back on its other expenditure like their own and MPs salaries perks and pensions rather than asking hard working and dedicated health workers to foot the bill for government and bankers mistakes.

This business of we are all in it together means “all” except wealthy bankers and Ministers and MPs. They also might like to stop sending billions of our money to prop up the EU and its failed Euro.

I think it was the Doctor's duty to strike on this issue. They are representing millions of public service workers, many of which can not afford to go on strike, who have been treated so abysmally by this government that it amounts to theft.

The Government has reneged on all of its contracts of employment and consigned millions to far lower pensions than they were entitled to. Some will not retire, they will die in service. Others will have all of their retirements plans shredded, to late to do anything about it. What the Government has done is only legal because it was them that did it but is totally and completely immoral.

What the Doctors did was high profile but doing little or no significant damage. They have raised the issue in the public mind. The Government’s best argument was that there was no point in striking because they were going to impose it regardless of any agreement. The strikers have my admiration for the measured way they acted.

About the same reduced level of service as the Jubilee Bank Holiday. Don't remember many people squawking about that.