You've not really answered my questions. You referred to my point about real-terms pay cuts as "magic money tree talk", you then explained this to mean "pulling figures from their backsides". What figures would those be? Do you dispute that average nursing salaries have fallen over the last 7 years when inflation is taken into account?
You've then called my point about a drop in applicants "the lies of the activist left", do you think there has not been a huge drop in applications to study nursing?
I have not at any point suggested, or been unable to accept that nurses earn more than the median wage. I think they bloody well should do, it's a tremendously difficult career requiring a rare combination of vocational skill, degree level qualification, compassion and commitment.
My own experience working with nurses in today's NHS is that they are underpaid for the amazing value they add to patient care.