Whatever the rights and wrongs of the firefighters claim for better pay....They should never threaten to withold their essential cover regards tackling fires....Thats totaly immoral....life is worth more than money..

I think they stand far more chance of getting things sorted by maintaining the high moral ground and continuing to provide essential cover whilst perhaps not attending non emergency situations and continuing to press their cae in the media....

Another thing that has transpired during this dispute is that they are less at risk than workers within the construction industry and several other heavy manual occupations...and that they arent in the thick of ghastly fires that threaten their lives every day of their lives or indeed very often or sometimes at all...much of the time they spend their time watching TV,playing cards and getting upto all sorts of enjoyable mischief during theirs shifts at the fire station,many of them vigorously oppose any changes to their 4 on 4 off shift patterns as they run businesses and do other jobs such as drive cabs etc with all the time they have at their disposal,and what about just doing whats right,doing ones duty,helping society,the origins of all the emergency services are steeped in a history of volunteering ones self in times of crisis for the good of everybody...Fire fighters must never lose sight of this proud tradition of which the fire brigade have always played their noble part..