Firstly I completely agree with many of the striking workers. They are being royally shafted along with many of us in this country. To use the argument that many of us deserve a pay increase but disagreeing with those fighting for one for themselves is fuzzy logic at best.

Inflation as it stands is being driven by the lack of labour supply in this country coupled with a seriously depreciated £. Whether folks like to admit it or not Brexit has contributed heavily to both. If we want to attract the best people in this country (and those overseas to come to this country) into essential work we simply need to pay more. If the aim is for a high-wage highly skilled economy then we need a serious amount of wage inflation across the board to achieve this.

As things stand we have many large companies making record profits off the inflation we are all experiencing and a scant amount of this is being passed down to the average Joe making the standard of living in this country much worse for nearly everyone other than the top few percent. Nobody should be an apologist for this state of affairs. It stinks.