No wonder low-paid workers have gone on strike – the Tories are blind to the horrors of modern working life

The Conservative mantra is that if you work hard in this country, you will get on fine. Not so for fast-food and zero-hours workers who barely make enough to survive in the first place

There is no social justice for exploited workers, which is why they have had to take to the streets to fight for it, and to the internet to crowdfund for it (Tolga Akmen/AFP)

With the Tory party conference mercifully in the rear-view mirror, workers pushed to the limit by low wages have sought to fill the news vacuum by taking to the streets in what is being described as a “fast-food strike”. They are employed by a range of companies: McDonald’s, TGI Fridays, JD Wetherspoon, UberEats, and the chief issue they are protesting over is pay, or rather, the lack of it.

Their numbers are relatively small at the moment, but they are growing, and they are deserving of our full-throated support. If it means a few quid on the bill when we eat out, or (more to the point) if it means their employers accepting a little less profit, a little less bonus for the fat cats in charge, who never knowingly scrimp on their own salaries, then so be it.