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This is all a bit surreal.

I'm willing to bet my house that it would be a risk that the majority of the general public would be willing to take.

What a loads of sh*t. A time and motion study in an inner city comp' is possibly the dumbest thing I've read on TSW and that's saying something.

My budget is being cut by 30% in anticiption of what is to come. It will make no impact on my (an my teams) ability to teach successfully but it will impact on the support given to students as that's where I'll cut. It's about maintaining core standards to me.

This.

But your opinion is always that only the private sector counts and anyone working in the public sector is a workshy commie. In my experience the frontline staff are committed, passionate and bloody hardworking. I would love to know how you judge a normal and efficent pace regarding education say in a inner city comprehensive?

Every year, but those decisions are driven by Whitehall/Head Honchos and not the providers/front line staff who would sooner kitty it up and use it when required. The vast majority of front line staff know how and where to save money and are best placed to do so and it's an absolute fallacy to suggest that everyone working in the public sector is happy to waste money or have no idea of the commercial world.

Not disputing that there is waste and to much of it but to say most don't care and have no idea is, frankly, b*ll*cks. I spend 1/2 my working week "in" the public sector, and have done for the last few years so my opinion is based on everyday experience.

I'm amazed at how clueless you are. Still, you've heard things and read things in the paper so everyone who works in the public sector must be really wasteful, have no concept of savings or ever worked in the commercial world and just loves wasting money.

It doesn't show that at all. I would suggest you read the text that goes with it. Still, if it suits your bizarre agenda fill your boots.

And what hardline discipline would that be? I'm sure I and all the other teachers & lecturers would love to know.

Unsurprisingly that's total and utter bullsh*t.

I hope that you're not suggesting the county views Dave in that way?

That's WFTC. The universal one is what used to be called child allowance I think. It gets really confusing.

So scrap the universal and replace it with one that is based on household income?

If you're not working you can't claim working families tax credit so I guess working is quite a key element of it.

Some people clearly don't understand the concept of working families tax credits.

Yeah, none of us lefties get that at all.

So are you saying that WFTC should be abolished for everyone along with family allowance?

But if it is currently a universal benefit shouldn't the cuts reflect that as well?

Excluding the Child Care Element, which is accepted by all sides as a major success as it's linked to the Early Years Strategy, where should the limit be on "entitlement" for WFTC? In addition, should the universal entitlement of child benefit be removed for people earning over £XX? £50,000+ of taxable household income would appear fair to me (I fall into this bracket so It's turkey voting for Xmas).

And you remain as thick as pig sh*t.

You really couldn't be thicker.

It's one thing they've got right 100%. Mainly because they listened to the experts of all political colours and took the politics out of it.

Care to espouse your knowledge of the educational system? No? Haven't got any experience of it apart from some GCSEs in woodwork? Thought not.