NO WAY TO TREAT OUR FIREFIGHTING HEROES

WHILE Grenfell Tower was blazing, firefighters ran in to help rescue the hundreds of people trapped inside.

Yet, despite her fine words at the time, Theresa May is now insistent that those same firefighters must have their pay rises capped at 1%, even though prices rose by 2.7% / 3.7% (CPI and RPI measures of inflation) and therefore, in real terms, they are having their pay cut.

These annual cuts are planned to go on every year for almost a decade, apparently because the country can’t afford to ease up on austerity.

Yet money was still suddenly available when Theresa May needed to find £1bn to buy the votes of Irish DUP MPs to keep herself in power.

Meanwhile David Cameron who, with his immediate family, is worth £30m, and who spent £25,000 on a garden shed to write his memoirs in (presumably about how he failed Britain and was forced out of office) denounces public sector workers as “selfish”.

He did that while giving a speech to businessmen in South Korea, an hour’s work for which he was paid tens of thousands of pounds.

Truly, as Labour’s shadow Chancellor John McDonnell commented, the Tories live in a different world from the rest of us.Name