I SUSPECT that I am far from being in the minority when I say that I haven’t an iota of sympathy with or for the public sector strikers.

Even after the proposed changes to pay and pension packages proposed by the government, the vast majority of them will still be far better off than most of us in the private sector – not only financially but with regard to job security.

The pension pot of most teachers, for example, is something like twenty times greater than that of the rest of us.

Can’t the strikers get it through their thick skulls that the country is sinking under a mountain of debt and we just cannot afford to pay the inflated salaries and pension packages that public sector employees have become accustomed to?

We have all got to accept that we cannot continue living high on the hog when the money is just not there to sustain it.

Surely it is worth a few years of austerity in order to secure a brighter and more prosperous future for the next generation.

If we refuse to accept the reality of what is happening today and fail to grasp the nettle, however much it might sting, the next generation will look back and wonder how we could have been so irresponsibly stupid and selfish.

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