OPINION - Londoners have no tears left to shed for Tube workers

Unless there’s an act of God or an effective intervention by the Mayor, London will stop working next week. In a succession of synchronised strikes by different groups of Tube workers, the Underground will effectively come to a standstill between Monday and Thursday, which actually means Sunday to Friday, given the knockon effects on trains. And if the Tube stops working, London stops working. Simple as that. For office workers like civil servants, this may be no big deal, given that so many of them prefer to run the country from their homes, but for construction workers, hairdressers, shop staff, bank clerks, chefs, teachers and nurses, if they don’t get to work, the work doesn’t get done.