Strikes and inflation create major headaches for both the Conservatives and Labour.
Perhaps you're reading this in a long queue for the bus. Or packed on to one of the few trains that is running.
As soon as next week we can expect ministers to introduce what is known as secondary legislation, a bolt-on to existing laws, that will allow people with the necessary transferrable skills to fill gaps left by striking workers. And now a row is brewing because a note sent to shadow ministers by the party leadership says: "Please be reminded that frontbenchers including PPSs should not be on picket lines."
But Labour MP Kate Osborne, herself a PPS, has tweeted: "Come what may, I will be on a picket line supporting workers tomorrow." For that reason, ministers argue, change is inevitable. But the union says it is absurd that there is full employment and yet falling wages.Which brings us to the bigger picture. Prices are rising at a speed not seen in 40 years.
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