Striking a blow as aviation nosedives

I SEE some Christmas traditions are still going strong – Heathrow baggage handlers are staging a series of strikes this month.

Are they nuts? The airline industry has lost billions this year and Covid has slashed air travel by 97 per cent bringing the global industry to its knees.

Yet these bozos are insisting on striking during the worst aviation crisis in history and at a time hundreds of thousands are losing jobs.

Baggage handlers’ strikes are a nasty, never- ending story in Britain. There were a series of them in the first three months of this year and a whole slew last year. And when they’re not actually striking, they’re threatening to – at Easter, during the summer holidays, at Christmas, all times that wreck the well- earned holidays of ordinary people.

You have to question the sanity of people withdrawing their labour at a time their industry is being forced to cut jobs. It seems a lot like shooting yourself in the foot.

SUSANNAH Constantine moans that in an effort to save money hubby Sten Bertelsen, refuses to have the heating on during the day: “So o with the money saved I went out and bought an expensive cashmere dressing gown worth £ 298,” she says. It won’t take stingy Sten long to work out that you could heat an entire house for a week with that.

But what is it with blokes and heating? My husband’s exactly the same but I keep telling him every time he fiddles with the heating switch I’ll start fiddling with the switches on his laptop/ computer/ phones etc. That stops the nonsense for a while.

COVID now gets blamed for incompetence and shoddy service everywhere. I was told in a store this week that a member of staff couldn’t help me carry four heavy bags of Christmas presents I’d bought to my car which was a few feet away in their car park because of Covid.

When I asked them to explain the logic they looked at me like I was talking Serbo Croat.

My point is let’s hope this government doesn’t do a treacherous Brexit deal hoping that the fuss over Covid/ the vaccine/ the Tier system will distract us from a sellout.

We know what we voted for and if Boris betrays that – he’s done for.