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  I cannot raise any sympathy at all for them collectively should they strike. I would extend sympathy for indivuals who lose their jobs, certainly but not so much if brought about by irresponsible strike action.
  
  In this 'Brown recession' there are many others who are more deserving of sympathy who those who place their futures at risk by striking.
  
  What about the thousands of small businesses that are much worse hit and those who depend on them for jobs.
  
  Some examples of people I know who are facing far worse than these DHB employees...
  
  There is the chap who closed his business and is struggling to meet the bills of his creditors without seeking the protection of bankrupsy. Two other people are out of work because of the collapse of his business. I have told him he should seek bankrupsy as he needs to draw a line under his problems and look to the interests of his family.
  
  Then there is the other businessman I met who has two businesses in Sussex. He is closing one, making 15 people redundant before it gets so bad he is unable to meet his creditors demands. In his other business he has laid off three people because he and his wife will have freed up some time to work 16 hours a day in it, saving costs, keeping it alive and saving another 8 jobs.
  
  There are many more like these. The millions of employees of small companies have no option of striking because they know their employer would simply go bust. They are in many cases taking pay freezes and even pay cuts. They have also never had the luxury of expensive feather bedded final salary pensions such as DHB employees have enjoyed.
  
  So no, I will not give any sympathy to strikers, not with all those around suffering who are much more deserving of that sympathy.

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