I make no apology for banging on about this: we are under attack! The Union is under attack, the National Health Service is under attack and our pay and pensions are under attack!

I have spent most of this week at the Trade Union Congress in Manchester. Some people say that it rains most of the time in Manchester: well they are wrong! I am here to tell you that it doesn’t rain most of the time, as it actually rains all the time!

I attended the LAS ‘Celebration of Service’ Ceremony in Westminster on Tuesday night. Twenty five members of staff from across the Service were being recognised for twenty years of NHS service with either a medal or medallion. 

Since I posted my last blog : Thirty three Chilian mineworkers have been stuck underground without a chance of being rescued until Christmas! The floods in Pakistan have taken more lives and the people who have survived are without homes, food, medicines and little help! More, and larger, explosions have…