A WINTER OF STRIFE LOOMS

British Airways cabin  crew are about to vote to strike on December 21, meaning many would-be holidaymakers will have their plans scuppered.

Meanwhile the postal strikes continue without any obvious signs of compromise.

They are already causing massive backlogs and soon the Christmas post will start to weigh in, adding personal disappointments to the disruption already caused to the normal conduct of business.

As if those were not bad enough, rubbish is piling up in Leeds where the binmen’s strike is entering its ninth week and firefighters in South Yorkshire are threatening to walk out next week.

A summer of economic dysfunction is turning into a winter of discontent.