STRIKING union members at Southampton City Council are making their point with a protest song.

They have recorded a musical appeal to council leader Cllr Royston Smith asking him not to cut their pay.

The re-written version of the Flying Pickets’ number one hit Only You has been posted on a video sharing website.

The anonymous singers protect their identities with masks of Cllr Smith’s face which they move in time to the song.

Cllr Smith joked: “It will be in the charts by the end of the week.”

He added: “I’d rather they didn’t but it looks like a bit of fun. I’m not offended by it, I’d have to have a thicker skin if I was.

“It’s not offensive like much of what’s happened before, I don’t think that’s a particularly unreasonable way of making a point.”