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You find it patronising because it IS patronising, if I was part of the Government I would be sucking up like mad to the NHS and all other 'essential workers', what a mess we would be in if they went on strike.

But so long as we can keep them on side until the crisis is over a bit of brown on the tongue is worth it, we can go back to ignoring and underpaying them later. (I might have added keeping them short of resources, however the PPE calamity is still with us. Long may we ignore our own resourcefulness and keep buying cheap).