bridge too far

hurry

Yes you're right on this score. Although of course if they've only been employed in the public sector for, say, 10 years then their public sector pension pot will be significantly less than if they'd been able to work until retirement because it will be frozen at the point of leaving. At least with some private pensions you can 'port' them from job to job. You can't do that with a public sector pension. I've just looked up redundancy pay for the public sector. It seems that the norm is one month's pay for every year of service compared to the norm of two weeks' pay for every year of service in the private sector. But there are exceptions both ways on both sides.

sitty downy

Maybe we could press for a retrospective review of our case since the loophole was well and truly open last year It's like being done for doing 40 in a 40 limit that has now been reduced to 30

Windlass schmindlass You're talking to the girl who had to pilot across the Ponty...... thingy (not he of Renault fame) aqueduct because the men couldn't cope!

actor

A couple of comforting bits in the BBC link: "But following the meeting of the 72 clubs in Malta, League chiefs will review the punishments for administration to see if they need toughening up." "And a loophole has been closed so that clubs that go into administration are hit with sporting sanctions even when the club is part of a group company" (they've learnt from our predicament last summer I guess).

Have a look at the second link Whitey posted, Trousers. A lot of public sector workers have 'transferred' to the private sector (e.g. hospital cleaners, cooks, porters) bringing down the average of the private sector whereas once it brought down the average of the public sector. And there are probably a lot more private sector burger jockeys (as an example) than there are low paid public sector workers. But that doesn't mean, like for like, that public sector workers are better paid than their private sector counterparts.

sore

I'd second this. I earned far less in the public sector, both as a Project Manager (on a multi-million pound construction project) and as a Contracts Auditor than I could have done in the private sector, with whom I was working.

FAO Hamster I may not be a mod (I was actually a rocker) but I do bring an element of glamour you know Also Mr TF is a biochemist - that might be useful :smt102 So we're a much better deal than Landy. I managed to break a TV set near Newbury by crashing into a lock wall - drunk in charge

abnormal

extraneous

[the] parts

heavier

cottage

man

sleepers

fortunes

crown

atoll

polka

Do Administrators and Insolvency Practitioners come under the remit of the Financial Services Authority I wonder?

dashes

I reckon the 'lacking intelligence' bit applies better to 'fans' who get banning orders in the first place