SIR – I absolutely concur with Mr Joul (Letters, November 25). The public servants taking industrial action tomorrow deserve the unqualified support of everyone.

Of course, in their usual selfish introspection, the many mealy-mouthed nay-sayers have possibly lost sight of the plot.

Hardly surprising, given the right wing media’s pathetic attempts to rubbish the strikers.

Lest we forget, then: The financial bubble burst in 2008 after 30 years of unparalleled greed on the part of the banks and financial institutions. For reasons best known to himself, Gordon Brown decided to bail out the ailing banks with public (and printed) money.

Since then, and in order to make sure that the banks receive their loan payments on time, this coalition Government has sacked many hundreds of thousands in the public sector – and those who remain are working longer and paying more pension contributions for a worse pension.

When we were faced with an industrial dispute in 1977, we walked out and stayed out until the Government backed down nine weeks later. In so doing, we won what was possibly the most quoted (and coveted) pay settlement this country has ever seen. Anybody prefer that? Christopher Hindle, Osterley Grove, Bradford