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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Mark Steel

'Striking firefighters and ambulance workers get blamed for the mess Tories got us in'

All these people on strike must accept that, because the economy has gone haywire, those who caused the problem have to cut back a bit.

For example, a few weeks ago the pound crashed after a crazy budget so we had to find 50 billion quid to save it. Who caused that?

Firefighters, that’s who. They made it collapse by spending all the country’s money on solid gold ladders and insisting they could only hose down burning buildings with Prosecco. Then postal workers insisted all their sacks were made by Gucci.

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