I have every sympathy for the striking rail workers, they have every right to withdraw their labour if they so wish. I've been on a 7 week strike, it's horrendous, quite simply with no wage your money soon runs out, but the bills keep on coming, the mortgage has to be paid and the family fed, so it's no easy decision to go on strike.

What baffles me though is the timing of this one, inflation is going through the roof, energy costs likewise, food prices are rocketing and there are ominous gaps on supermarket shelves, petrol is getting on for £2 a litre, the situation is so bad that food banks are running out of food while overflowing with customers. Yet in this horrific scenario, when you'd think anyone with a reasonably well paid job would be happy to keep their head down and battle on, this lot decide they don't need their wage, they and their families can manage without it.

Really ? Doesn't seem credible to me, as ever, all is most certainly not as it appears, nor as the MSM would have you think it is.