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I'll be at work as normal as I've opted out of the pension. Just found out though that all of our classes have been cancelled by the chief exec and we are not best pleased. Still, a good opportunity to catch up on my marking. My wife is also working as she believes education comes 1st..

It's hard to be condescending when you have dozen professionals, at all scales and political colours, laughing at you. Even my true blue colleagues think he's clueless.

I think he struggles to get his point across partly because he doesn't fully grasp the facts of his brief and doesn't get why people laugh at them. As I said, affable but lives in cuckoo land.

We chose a "Good" secular school over a "Good" C of E school after going to have a look around and seeing how they attempted to indoctrinate young minds. Come around to believing secular schools should be the norm as per France. Religious schools, of any ilk, should be fee paying.

Affable but totally and utterly clueless about the real world.

Shows how out of touch you are then if you think that goes on. I'm meeting Gove again this week.

Ah, I see, because you wanted him that was the right decision. Got yeah.

Because hindsight is a wonderful thing but after 10mins were we all crying out for changes? No, of course we weren't.

There is no way that NA would bring SDR on after what? 10mins? MS was the obvious and correct decision but SDR should have replaced Hammond at 1/2 time.

Lost at Derby? No chance, battered them.

A little for column A and a little from column B.

Yep. On the way down both Corky and I said it felt like a "lose" day. Even my nipper felt that we'd lose today.

Nope.

Now on the M5 after watching a very poor Saints display. Fox was shocking.

Be very interesting to see how they pay the wages now. Perhaps Ho's friend, whom he sees socially every two weeks or so, with excellent contacts at the club, may know?

It was this model that I heard the some CBI bods championing at a regional meeting a couple of weeks ago.

I wanted 2 more tickets so I phoned the TO and they said put my own and another ST holder on the form and that would be fine. It's a free for all so my form went off tonight via recorded delivery.

That's right, as a Head of Community maths for a whole metropolitan area, tasked with breaking into hard to reach areas, I only have anecdotal evidence. None of it, at all, comes from in depth studies from the DWP, Dept of Ed, IFL, B'ham Uni and the local authority. Nope, none, just my experience of working in mosques, temples, Gurdwara's, community outreach centres and colleges and of course, it's totally random that I visit these places, as no studies, of course, have been done, ever.

You've clearly never been to the Black Country or Birmingham.

Sorry, but that's just wrong.

Totally.

No, they don't.

^^^Very much this^^^ My 9yo can't wait but some, so called grown men, just prefer to mither about how unfair it all is.

And they would have been out of office for another generation or more.