The BMA and the “omnicause”

pt”>“It is very sad to see what was basically a well-rounded organisation that covered so many issues of importance to a wide range of doctors being hollowed out by the angry activism around residents’ pay, Gaza and LGBT issues,” says Mark Pickering of the Christian Medical Fellowship, which counts many BMA members in its ranks. “It is very similar to the way Momentum took over the Labour Party from the inside. We saw then how people started using democracy to try to dismantle democracy and that’s what it seems has happened here.

“You had these two groups come in and they all vote for each other… and that’s shifted what happens at the annual meetings, where BMA policy is formed.”

As the union has become ever more of a crucible for Left-wing politics, members appalled by the takeover have begun to leave.

Notably, and unsurprisingly, Jewish doctors. While opposition to the Cass Review was also part of the exciting new BMA look. All part of the omnicause.

It's not just the BMA. The Royal College of Nursing has turned its back on Sandie Peggie. As I noted the other day, it's interesting, given the obvious class element in the NHS Fife case, that not one single trades union that I'm aware of would support Peggie here. And certainly not the RCN. They're all completely behind the gender cause. Such an obvious case of workers' rights under attack from middle-class management, and they all look the other way.

Also this: a nurse racially abused by a trans paedophile, and the RCN's only concern is that she "misgendered" him. 

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"Jennifer was racially abused by the patient and threatened with assault. But it is now Jennifer who has been suspended and is being investigated as a 'risk' to the NHS for not using the patient's preferred gender identity.

"A paying RCN member for 12 years, Jennifer says that when the incident happened the union dismissed her case as not “meritorious” and told her to complete a “reflection” exercise to avoid future ‘misgendering’. She received no support despite the RCN recognising the abuse she experienced."

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