Tom, You are the last person I would have expected to want to have any truck with all the nonsense about the dispute between SJAB and the professional ambulance service - I've come to expect better of you... As a former member of SJAB, there are a couple of points I would ask you to consider... First of all, you are an emergency service - not a convenience service. Your work is absolutely essential. By going out on strike you FORCED SJAB into a position - their conscience demanded they act in the public good, and the best way to do that was to take on your less serious work. Perhaps before attacking them again you might stop to consider that the situation was entirely of your own making. Second - the vast majority of the SJAB members involved will by now have left their units and moved on. Even if they were in the wrong (which I don't accept), you're now holding a grudge against an organisation of whom the current management and membership were not even around at the time of the strike. Does that seem reasonable? Yes, ambulance staff and nursing staff get a very raw deal, and have done so for quite some time... It's one of the many reasons I could not support either the Conservatives or Labour again... I had hoped a labour government would mean real changes, but it seems the party managed to get hijacked somewhere along the way...