...I don't blame them one bit! Even people with "good" jobs are paid wages on which they have no hope of ever buying a place to live. Without a salary of at least £30 it's impossible to buy any sort of home, let alone a decent one in a decent area, in most places in the UK.

Of course, the irony is that the soldiers who will provide cover during any strike have far worse pay and conditions! But that doesn't make the firefighters wrong.

Julie