Just a day before we officially kick off our hosting of the Olympics with the opening ceremony, the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union, who represent home office and border agency workers, have decided that they will strike in a row over jobs, pay and other issues.
This announcement has been called shameful and unjustified, and I think there’s room for a few more like greedy and selfish, hosting the Olympics is a once in a lifetime opportunity, hence we last did so in 1948.
So it should be a time when everybody sidelines their concerns and personal gripes and pulls together for two weeks to showcase all that’s great about Britain, not deliberately kick up a stink because you know everyone’s on tenterhooks to try and get everything ready in time.
In 1948 we hosted the games just three years after the end of the Second World War, and I bet none of the workers involved then went on strike, they got on with their job and delivered the Olympic Games, I would urge those involved now to stop complaining and do the same.
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