Looking at the BBC News website I note a post by Faisal Islam headed ‘will the strikes ever end’. I don’t expect he wrote the headline as the post points to inflation at 10% while public sector pay offers have been mostly at 2% with some edging up to under 5%. That means a real pay cut for millions
Islam argues that the issue is that the Government which is the ultimate paymaster in most of the disputes will not sit down and negotiate settlements with unions. Indeed the Tories strategy is to push through yet another anti-strike piece of legislation in the Commons. A class war strategy and one co-ordinated from 10 Downing Street.
The legislation won’t stop the strikes though because in the 12 week period to 22nd January food price inflation was at 14.8% with milk and eggs showing particularly shop increases. I don’t expect Rishi Sunak the richest MP in the Commons knows how much a pint of milk costs but I’m most people struggling to make ends meet at the moment do.
Doesn’t know how much bread costs either