Alex Massie Alex Massie

Ambulance Crews: The Enemy Within

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I’m sure the unions will say that it is all very complicated and their members are being persecuted. But it is not complicated and their members are not being persecuted enough. It is grotesque they need to be bribed to interrupt their tea-breaks to do their job.

I don’t suppose it’s possible to sack them for this but it seems a shame that’s the case. The enemy within? If decency is the standard then, yes, these people are the enemy.

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