WITH reference to your report ‘Workers rally round for big day of action’ (SA, July 11) I was one of the estimated one million public sector workers who went on strike.

I was also one of the one hundred people who attended the rally at the cenotaph on the day of the strike.

The reasons I did are many – not just the one per cent pay award, this after three years of a pay freeze, but the whole destruction of the public services in the name of the Tories’ ideological policies. Cameron, Osborne and Duncan-Smith like to keep pedalling the myth the country is broke. What clap trap.

This country is loaded with money; it is the seventh wealthiest country in the world, has more billionaires and millionaires than ever before and lets an estimated £160 bn leave the country in unpaid taxes each year.

They give the rich a tax cut and can find money for wars and the HS2 (a project the majority of the country thinks is a waste of money). They can even find the money to give themselves an 8 per cent pay rise, but money to fund the public services? No chance.

Cabinet office minister Francis Maude was complaining the strike closed care homes for 24 hours. Poor man must have been suffering from amnesia in a government that has closed care homes permanently across the country. The hypocrisy of this government has no limits.

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