bridge too far

Knight

Sheffield

runner

pencil sharpener

you 'orrible lot uphill gardener

alleys

Much like now then, JB. Is that what you're implying?

rhapsody

dirty

michael

attack

For once, your assumption is correct. Unless of course they are taking annual leave to strike.

gargoyle

interrogate

Watch Panorama on BBC1 NOW

bar [sorry if I'm disappointing you ]

tiger

hero

But you can bet your bottom dollar some of us will be more 'in this' than others. I wonder if Georgie Porgie's buddies will suffer as much as your average man / woman in the street.

piper

Johnny I'd like to query bullet point 1. As I said earlier, the lowest wage earners in the public sector are generally now in the private sector. I'm talking about cleaners, porters, catering staff all of whom now work for private providers ever since they were contracted out. So removing the lowest paid from the public to private sector changes the dimensions. I wonder how the figures are calculated for the 'average private sector top 10%' given that top directors of banks and multi-nationals earn millions a year (Terry Leahy - soon to be boss of Tesco - £5+m p.a.) and I'm not aware of any top public sector employee earning anything like £1m. Unless of course dividends and bonuses aren't factored into these 'average earning' and / or they're paid offshore :smt102

Well, they're talking the talk - let's see if they walk the walk. Unless of course they're scared of making the big decisions :smt102 Just watching the news I was struck by how much Maggie looks like her Spitting Image puppet these days

But DC is being quite cute by inviting us all to decide what should be cut and what shouldn't. We, as a nation, are never going to agree because we all have different 'agendae'. So it'll be divide and rule Very clever.

repent

I might consider placing it in the smallest room in my house.