I tell you what there is no more refreshing starts of the day than getting up first thing

cycling to Sky News's studios in Westminster and having a big old banny with a former

advisor to the Conservative Cabinet Minister Michael Gove about

where the front line workers should get a pay rise.

Now, in a bit of context, the new Labour government has decided to try and

settle with trade unions following long-running strikes with improved pay deals and that's set off the Tory press who are themselves run by

extremely rich people and the Considered by who are funded by extremely rich people and just to emphasize a party which

systematically trash the country. Now as I discussed labors pay deals are not

the extravagant Benanzas they're being portrayed as if only.

They don't restore workers wages to what they used to be.

They don't actually meet all of the unions demands at all, which is something I would personally advocate, but they are an improvement over what

the Conservatives offered.

Now the former Tory advisor Charlie Rowley makes this extraordinary claim to be that everyone is suffering.

That's probably news to the booming rich, isn't it?

But anyway, here's my first response, setting out the overall context.

And do you think it's an unfair expectation to think that after one settlement is agreed with one particular

union that that would lead to no further strikes from the members of that union for at least an extended period of time?

No, I don't. You know, the one statistic that people always have to bear in mind, I think we're looking at the state

in this country, is that workers have gone through the longest squeeze in wages since the Battle of Waterloo.

That's the last time we had this extended squeezing wages.

The average worker is no better off than they were in 2010.

There was no precedent for that.

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