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No one likes people in coach class and the shareholder is king!

Winter warmers out for this 1 I think!

Boo Hoo. Dry your eyes Jack.

How far away can you knife people with commando? Got the M16 unlocked now so may have a go with that. I miss the MP5 from MW1.

Fair point so I will counter it by saying that we'll never know how the manufacturing base would have adapted to the changes that globalisation has brought.

So it has nothing to do with sub-prime mortgages, banking collapses in the USA and the global economy, which, because of the tories destruction of our manufacturing base, has left us more exposed than any other nation bar Iceland? Any government, of any political colour, would have struggled with the events we've all witnessed. I'm just grateful I'm not as thick as you.

Going to re-jig one with marathon, lightweight and ninja and another with bling, stopping power and ninja.

BA have history and Willie Walsh usually ends up acting like Bob Crow. Leadership of both are acting like ***ts IMHO.

BA and Unite do seem as if they are a match made in hell!

I work in the public sector and there are far too many non jobs sucking up money and only an idiot would disagree. However, teaching isn't one of those areas. LEAs etc are another matter! I subscribe to the lean and efficent model and the department I run adhere to it. We could have another two support staff but we simply don't need them so I've not filled the positions, much to the annoyance of HR. I also run my own small company and the methods I use in my "main" job I also use with my business as that's "my" money. There can be plenty of crossover but the goodtimes have allowed middle management to bloat and it is there where the axe should fall.

What perks are you using? I've got Bling Pro, Cold Blooded Pro and Ninja Pro. I can't work out the best perks and weapon combinations as easily as I did on MW1. Currently maxing out with the SCAR with RD/Silencer and Thumper or RD/Launcher and shotgun. Killsteaks are Care Package, Predator and Harriers and Martyrdom as a deathstreak.

What is everyone playing? I tend to play domination, HQ or capture the flag.

Not to teach in a state school it wouldn't have been. PGCE/Full Cert Ed with QTS has been a requirement for at least the last 15 years MA or no MA. You chose your career path knowing full well the pros and cons. The pros being the opportunity to make plenty of profit and the cons being the security. Others choose a different path. To be bleating about those choices when times are hard is rather pathetic considering we heard not a peep when times were good.

So you have a full Cert Ed with QTS status and a degree in a national curriculum subject? No, thought not and those rules have existed for at least the last 15 years. You need do formal teaching quals to teach in HE (I await to be corrected about that). I have a vested interest as my wife is a teacher in a very, very tough and poor part of the Midlands. I see how much work she brings home and how much time she spends planning, marking, assessing etc. She earns every penny.

You get the benefits of self employment when times are good and choose your own working hours, as do I so don't bleat about it. Sounds needy and pathetic.

So the staff of a publicly owned airline have a direct correlation to teachers working in tough inner city schools. Yeah, right. People who spout off about teachers are usually the sort who when they meet one say "couldn't do your job". I had the misfortune of having to work within a secondary school in the Black Country last week, a really sh*t school. The teachers I saw earn every single penny. I wouldn't want to put up with that day in and day out. Staff were, in the main, all in by 08.00 and I never saw one leave earlier than 16.45. They were dedicated, hard working, caring and fighting a losing battle IMHO.

You clearly haven't got a scooby. In fact, it sounds more like sour grapes that someone elses career path has led to more security than yours. Deal with it.

That's his Saturday job.

Bob Crow is the exception to the rule and is outdated as Campari & Soda! I support the trade union movement but I do not support militancy, it has no place in modern Britain. Everyone in the service industries need to understand that the ability to evolve and change with the times is the key to survival in these troubled times, brought on by the greed of a few. In fact, that applies to us all.

LOL at the buffon. You want to try teaching in a tough inner city school and then say it's cushy.

Not quite true, they've been quoted as saying they are keeping tabs on him.

I think the Unions are aware of this but in this case, they seem to be blinkered to the fact that customers have genuine choice now and will exercise that choice in an instant.

He is correct regarding "right to buy". Great policy, seriously flawed by not allowing local authorities to reinvest the money generated into new housing stock.

Prehaps the solution is to go genuine low cost for European and genuine Premium for long haul and pay the crew according to the sector they work in. Ryanair and Easyjet have ripped up the business models for short haul in Europe and cost, not service is the driver for paying passengers and because we are so used to it BA is deemed as being way overpriced. This, of course, is also true for the other flag carriers. I actually baulk at paying more that £50 all in for a return flight now!

We no longer have to sell and in Jan' we won't. For once, we are a buying club!