Liam Gallagher has brutal message for the government over the proposed 1% NHS pay rise

Liam Gallagher has taken to Twitter to give his opinion on the NHS pay row. 

The outspoken singer has weighed in on the proposed 1% pay rise for NHS staff this year.

It comes after health secretary Matt Hancock described the country’s finances as ‘tight’, leaving nurses across the country – who have played a vital role throughout the pandemic – angered.

Liam kept things simple, tweeting: “Give the NHS and care workers a proper pay rise you wankers LG x”

One follower said: “Our NHS has been our front line in this battle with covid and we’ve done what? Clapped? Cracking. That makes it worthwhile.”

A second added: “Thanks Liam I’m an NHS worker and it’s gutting this 1% that is being offered.”

Matt Hancock was faced with a question from a nurse during yesterday’s press conference, wondering how the government would have coped without nurses throughout the pandemic.

In response he said: “It’s an incredibly important point that we need more nurses – not just the nurses that we have now – and we have a clear manifesto commitment to 50,000 more nurses in the NHS, and I am delighted that there are more than 10,000 more nurses that have joined the NHS over the last 12 months.

“Also we have seen an increase of 34%, so more than a third, in the number of applications to nursing.

“And of course over the past three years nurses have had a 12% pay rise.

“The challenge is that the nation’s finances are tight and whilst everyone else is going to get a pay freeze we are able to propose a pay rise for nurses of 1%.