Rishi Sunak has stamped his authority all over the public sector pay row disputes with his final offer

Pay & dismay

HOW refreshing it was to hear Rishi Sunak so directly rule out public sector pay rises above six or seven per cent.

The PM has been buffeted in recent months by a hailstorm of difficulty.

But he has now stamped his authority all over the lingering pay disputes by making his final offer.

It is a smart move aimed at getting the strikers back to work quickly.

At the same time Britain’s growing debt mountain won’t be added to significantly.

It should be seen as a sensible offer agreeable to all sides.

You know it must be a decent deal when even the teaching unions are gratefully accepting it.

But in the fantasy parallel universe occupied by hard-left doctors’ union, it’s still not enough.

By absurdly holding out for 35 per cent the BMA willfully fails to understand that the country is skint.

They don’t care that handing a massive whack to junior doctors and consultants will mean taking an axe to frontline health services to pay for it.

Nevermind the wider point that handing out bumper pay-rises will send inflation sky high when we need to urgently get it down.

The public won’t wear the unions’ selfish strikes much longer.

Suns of anarchy

THERE is no country on Earth greater than ours when the sun shines.

Too often, sadly, it doesn’t.

That’s why millions of hard-working Brits rely on a break abroad to get some much needed warmth and rest.

How depressing that after another gruelling year families face having their holidays ruined by striking Gatwick airport workers.

The timing is designed to

Unite union bosses are as pitiless as the Just Stop Oil protesters are pitiful.

Yesterday, after being confronted by a mum desperate to get her family to the airport for their summer break, the entitled whingers released a ludicrous statement warning of “irreversible feedback loops”.

Whatever they are.

Many of these middle-class warriors will have already enjoyed countless foreign holidays themselves.

They just don’t want you to do the same.

Had your fill

WHEN the supermarkets first started building forecourts it was to sell cheap fuel as part of a brutal price war.

But what started out as healthy competition benefiting customers has been corrupted by antics akin to a cartel.

Drivers have been fleeced of almost £1billion through overcharging. Grant Shapps has now rightly threatened legislation unless the supermarkets sign up to a pact on transparent pricing.

They should agree.

The rip-off has gone on for too long.