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Junior medical professionals are threatening to strike again. So what, you might say? When are they not threatening a walk-out? In the previous 2 years, they have taken commercial action 11 times.

This makes me really upset. My medical union, the British Medical Association (BMA), is wasting public regard for medical professionals, mauling facts and pursuing Left-wing crusades without any regard for the cost to the health service.

Their insatiable demands for higher pay make my occupation, my long-lasting occupation, look tawdry, cynical and . There are minutes when I practically feel I might rip up my subscription card in disappointment.

But it isn't just my union that is behaving so disgracefully. The real culprit is the Labour government, whose ineptitude in union settlements given that coming to power has activated a greedy free-for-all.

Unless these outrageous needs can be brought under control, I fear the NHS might be bankrupted.

The flashpoint this month is the BMA's demand for a pay boost much better than the 4 per cent that was executed on April 1 - a rise the union has dismissed as 'derisory'.

That 4 per cent is already above the rate of inflation, which is presently running at 3.5 per cent. In truth, the offer used to junior doctors (or 'resident physicians', as we're now supposed to call them) supplies significantly more, as they will get an additional ₤ 750 on top of the uplift, representing a typical increase in salary of 5.4 percent.

And it begins top of a colossal 22 percent typical rise dished out by Health Secretary Wes Streeting in 2015 in a desperate bid to stop the consistent strikes, after they required a 30 per cent pay increase.

Their pressing demands for higher pay make my occupation, my long-lasting occupation, look tawdry, cynical and money-grubbing, states Dr Max Pemberton

Junior medical professional members of the British Medical Association (BMA) on the picket line outside the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle in 2023

That craven capitulation by Labour didn't work, obviously - simply as surrender has actually proved unsuccessful in mollifying the transport unions, the teachers and every other militant collective. The BMA validates its ongoing push for greater pay by declaring physicians are even worse off by about a quarter in real terms considering that 2009.

The chairman of the BMA council, Professor Philip Banfield, sneers at the 4 percent boost, saying it 'takes us backwards, pressing pay remediation even further into the distance,' and adds ominously: 'No one wants a go back to scenes of doctors on picket lines, however sadly this looks much more likely.'

What else did anybody expect? Unions are mandated to require as much cash for their members as they can get. They don't exist to be sensible or to welcome compromise. And when Labour tried to buy them off, the unions picked up weak point. Prof Banfield understands there are more concessions to be won now, more pips to be squeezed.

But the NHS is not some personal, profit-making corporation, and this is not a battle in between an exploited workforce and fat feline investors. Our beleaguered health service is moneyed by all of us - and it is on its knees.

This is something most physicians can acknowledge. Yet, over the past years or more, the union has actually been more worried with pursuing Left-wing agendas than acting in the very best interest of its members.

For example, the BMA's leadership has actually declined to endorse the Cass Review, commissioned by the NHS as a report into gender identity services for children and youths.

The findings by Dr Hilary Cass, released last year, encouraged versus hurrying under-18s into gender shift treatment, such as the age of puberty blockers, that they might later on be sorry for.

It needs to not be the BMA's role to introduce into a dispute on the interpretation of medical evidence. That's what the Royal Colleges are for.

Sir Keir Starmer and Health Secretary Wes Streeting. This year's pay rise follows resident physicians were awarded increases worth 22 percent by Mr Streeting in 2015

The union has actually overstepped its bounds, and I'm seriously dissatisfied about paying my membership to an organisation that makes political declarations in my name.

These include require a ceasefire in Gaza, for instance, and criticism of China for human rights abuses - as if Hamas is going to return Israeli hostages or Beijing is going to stop persecuting the Uighur minority, simply due to the fact that a doctor's union in the UK calls for it.

This is low-cost virtue-signalling, provided for no other reason than to make the BMA execs feel good about themselves.

I would admire them much more if they put their energy into fact-checking their own claims. The BMA is vulnerable to bandying about numbers that don't stand up to scrutiny.

Some of their figures relating to earnings and inflation have been unmasked, utilizing information from the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Since BMA members consist of doctors with know-how in medical data, it's an embarrassment to everyone.