FIREFIGHTERS have condemned the ‘hypocrisy’ of Government ministers in their row over pensions.

The Fire Brigades Union was responding to claims by the Government that its members’ pensions were ‘generous’.

Matt Wrack, FBU general secretary, said: “We have a government of millionaires who are wrecking the pensions of firefighters and other public sector workers while the real scandal is that their own pensions are by far the most generous in the public sector.

“This is a case of those at the top getting more while everyone else is robbed blind. Firefighters are sickened by the Government’s ‘snouts in the trough’ approach to this issue.”

Mr Wrack pointed to a House of Commons report which stated that while MPs paid 37 per cent of the cost of their pensions, firefighters paid 49 per cent towards their’s. Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service will go on strike from 6pm today until 6pm on Tuesday.