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  If those numbers only apply to public service employees, I'd be very surprised, Alexander.
  
  Surely it is the people unemployed who can't afford their mortgages etc. not those with a job. Mortgages are not more expensive nowadays, the bank-rate has stayed the same for quite some time now.
  
  As you highlighted in your post Alexander, these hotspots are high unemployment areas, so people without jobs - striking is more likely to lead to more unemployment, so these families will have less money with no one at work.
  
  The unions should be talking about job protection, not how to lose them. The current way of calculating pensions (final salary) in the public sector, is unaffordable - and in most cases, unfair on all of us - we all pay for it afterall through our taxes.
  
  
  
  Roger

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