I haven’t talked about this much, but I completely support the fire-fighters. Given that a 40% pay increase will only bring the average wage up to £30,000, I don’t see how anyone cannot support them. They go into burning buildings to help people for fuck sake and they only get paid £18,000 a year? There is something wrong there.
One comment in particular this morning admittedly from the leader of the Fire-fighters Union, but to the effect that Gordon Brown can earmark a billion pounds for a possible war against Iraq but can’t give the staff of the Fire Brigade or the teachers or the nurses, etc. any more money.
Bollocks. Perhaps the UK needs to think about looking after its own problems before going to war at the request of George W. Bush.