This feels like a painfully long wait for the ballot box

Not only is the government not talking to large numbers of their constituents with regard to legitimate pay and conditions claims, but they’re also planning to introduce legislation to prevent many of them from exercising an already well-regulated right to withdraw their labour in support of those claims.

This Tory government’s unwillingness to talk to the unions is clearly not in the public interest and their proposed legislation is a direct result of it. The situation with regard to the understaffed NHS is conspicuously damaging. An entreaty to work harder hardly seems appropriate.

The strikers themselves are members of the public and hard-working constituents, many with families to house, feed and clothe. Their fraught situation is a direct result of nearly 13 years of Tory governance, accompanied by a notably damaging "fiscal event" and a large helping of Brexit "benefits" on the side.