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[Deleted]September 1, 2024
Interesting how the association was infiltrated by a motivated group so easily. We see this all over society. Despite technology offering the ability for the broad membership to vote on a wide range of issues, the power still lies in small committees that can be easily manipulated.
in the autumn of 2021, a group calling itself DoctorsVote first appeared on the online discussion site, Reddit. It described itself as “a small group of like-minded people … committed to achieving full pay restoration”. To do that, it set out to gain as many seats on the UK council as possible. ...
DoctorsVote is a loose coalition of left-leaning junior doctors, containing a smaller, but harder left, grouping called Broad Left. ...
It seems one hell of a stretch to suggest a decision going back four years, which predated the Cass review even being set up, provides authority for a couple of dozen junior doctors to rubbish the review on behalf of the BMA’s entire membership.
This is the key part: the BMA council has been hijacked. Pay restoration is within their remit, TRA is their religion and they forgot it's not something they should bring to the BMA.
And f*ing Reddit doing the Lord's * work again...! Would be funny if it wasn't so crazy.
*it's all about defending the patriarchy with these people
"the BMA is a trade union, not a clinical organisation typically seen as having responsibility for formulating best medical practice.......a number (of members) were perplexed that the BMA was getting involved at all, arguing its focus should be on pay and working conditions........Richard Rawlins, a retired surgeon who has been a BMA member for more than 50 years...views the move as unprecedented. “I’ve never known council to institute a scientific review or a clinical medical review of a medical matter.”