NO wonder they call his column Leaver at Large, I think he must have escaped from an asylum to write such rubbish (October 23), regarding the firemen's strike threat.

Instead of sitting in his office has he ever attended a motorway accident involving cutting dead people from cars, attending tube station fires to rescue badly burnt people, carrying dead children from burnt out houses?

This is more stressful than being snookered.

The reason some do part-time jobs is out of necessity, not greed.

B PICKUP, Ramsgreave Drive, Blackburn.