Why can’t Walk Out Wednesday take place on a more convenient day, like Sunday?

Up to 500,000 people are expected to join UK strikes across the country as teachers, civil servants and train drivers walk out of pay.

But why can’t people just strike in a way that doesn’t affect anyone, or cause any disruption, so that we can just continue with our lives and just ignore the strikes entirely?

What exactly does striking on a weekday achieve, other than the fact that millions of people are affected by things not working? It seems people have begun to think, who needs work when you can just protest about not getting paid for work you’re not doing? Genius.

It’s a backwards strategy that clearly doesn’t have any impact whatsoever. Yes, we’re all talking about it and listening to it, but what does that achieve other than a narcissistic complex of attention seeking and a stressful day of rearranging our entire lives?

Strikes are more of a foreign, European thing – in France, for example, people just stop working willy-nilly in the middle of the day because they feel like it. But this is Britain, and it can’t become embedded as part of our tradition.

I’m tired of stepping over rubbish bins and scheduling my illnesses around an ambulance schedule that’s fallen into the same disrepair as the Southern trainline timetable.

We already know you’re trying to make a point.

Just make it on a day that nobody can listen or care – like a Sunday.