What's your opinion on strikes and striking?

Mine? I've never been in favour of strikes, you never get back the money you've lost after you've had a shortfall in wages because of it. Any increase eventually won is only marginal compared to what you've lost.

I have always said that strikes are called for by those who've failed to properly negotiate on members behalf. Those union "officials" have enjoyed a favourable salary and when the time came to negotiate, they failed miserably and ended up causing disruption not only to the business which was having labour withheld but disruption also to the lives of the union members.

It's often seemed to me that some union "officials" act more like anarchists rather than skilled negotiators and whoever it was that hijacked the old saying from the first world war that the strikers were Lions led by Donkeys wasn't far wrong.