Here we go again. Bob Crow, another Arthur Scargill – except in name – if there ever was one. Do we never learn from the past?

Arthur was a man who loved the limelight and while his workers were living on fresh air, he was still cashing his pay slip. Bob Crow is of the same mould – do as I say, not as I do.

We hear he was dining at a posh restaurant in London this week and even if it was for his birthday I would not be surprised if he claimed expenses as he had his union buddies with him and could say it was a business lunch. He calls himself working class, but with the huge salary he is paid, there is nothing working class about him. He cannot possibly understand what it is like to manage on less than £20,000 a year.

Calling a strike is his way of getting at the establishment and gaining notoriety for himself.

If he really wanted to help his members he should also live on strike pay, but that is most unlikely to happen.

It is very easy for him to use rhetoric to persuade his members to go on strike when he will continue to get paid his huge salary.

I am not saying that people do not deserve a decent pay rise, but all this will do is increase prices everywhere else and the rest of us will be even worse off.

Ann Cruickshank, Almsford Drive, York.