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The Telegraph - Time to pension off public-sector militants

Few private sector workers under the age of 45 will understand what is going on. Their parents were used to an economic culture blighted by the British disease of striking, in which it was sullenly accepted that capricious and pointless withdrawals of labour were part of our life. Most people now have no regard for such niceties, and see such industrial action as a bore and an absurdity.

If the Government wants to limit the scope for such unrest, it should encourage the further contracting out of public services to the private sector. And if the unions do not wish to be dismissed as irrelevant by the public, they will accept that their crude defence of an indefensibly low retirement age belongs in the primitive past.