JUST who does Jeremy Hunt (the Minister of Health) think he is?

His supposed talks with the BMA regarding the junior doctors dispute has been running for around three years (The Press, April 25).

The government response is that “delaying reform after three years of talks would mean not taking an important step in improving weekend care”.

Hunt’s response is to threaten the imposition of new contracts on junior doctors. Since when has forcing people to accept changes to their contract of employment been classified as communication and talks?

It appears to me that Jeremy Hunt and the government will only accept talks on their terms and are not prepared to listen to the junior doctors or their representative body the BMA.

For the government and Jeremy Hunt to now say the junior doctors are involved in a political dispute and attempting to bring down the government is way off the mark.

An all party way out of the dispute has been put to Jeremy Hunt and all he can do is to scoff and shrug their plea off as an attempt to overthrow the government.

Junior doctors are not interested in bringing governments down. The only thing they are interested in is healing people and saving people’s lives but junior doctors cannot and will not accept being pushed around by bully boy tactics from a bully boy government.

Howard Perry, St James Place, Dringhouses, York