LGTL

My girlfriend at the moment. I assume when I have children they will be equally as important but in different ways.

Teaching is a postgraduate profession, so their salaries need to be compared like for like. I've graduate friends in the Private sector earning £50k + a year at 24, with all the perks that go with it including final salary pensions. You shouldn't sympathise but you should probably understand why teachers might be earning more then minimum wage and expect a decent pension, just like their equivalents are getting in the private. Well the ones I know anyway.

It may rise to that after about 10-15 years if you're lucky. With added responsibilities obviously.

Why would they do that if an announcement wasn't imminent I wonder...

Espeicially that comical one posted by the Grandad! Keep it up old boy!

23.

On my OfficialSaints twitter link it's still on there, also on Sibley's. There are issues sometimes on twitter updates, but it's still there for me. As has been mentioned, it would be extremely wierd for Saints to talk about it if it was dead in the water. Especially as they would have known for the last two weeks.

Would they not accept a faxed copy of a birth certificate etc if people live a distance away?

You have obviously been searching for them on google then..

If we accept anything under £10million upfront we'd be mugs.

Why do people all rush down on the 1st day?? Unless you are away on holiday the whole time you have 2 weeks!

Still used in Soton I believe. I think it's base is that big red bulding opposite where JJB Sports is/was.

Shane does seem to have become rather aggressive in his new "persona". I'm sure there are a few of us who can remember his postings under previous usernames....

Corp is a liar as well as a fu*cking embarrassment then.

There is no way Cortese would allow that to be announced if it wasn't a done deal. This is starting to be quite a good day.

Good news.

Exactly. This thread is full of communist ideologies from the people you'd least expect it from!

I was expecting a taxi driver but close enough. It is their children that are probably terrorising the teachers unfortunately. Only difference is at least they can (attempt) to fight back and/or protect themselves physically if they possible can.

Go on...

Thing is, that could work un-officially, and sometimes does. I don't even bother looking at my ticket for away games and just migrate to the back. It usually isn't a problem.

W******d

Adkins loves a cliche. It will tell us nothing.

Red Ed just doesn't want to be asscociated with bending over to the Unions. I expect he's raising a glass to them in the privacy of his own home. Anyway, think this thread has run it's course. People agree with it and others don't, that's life.

Holepuncture, my statement was in regards to the reasoning behind the pension cuts. Those reasons are NOT financial, as has been admitted by a government spokesman today. Of course the strikes are about money, and rightly so.

This isn't about the money. Hutton said it isn't about the money. The governement have finally admitted today it isn't about the money. Hell, why do you think they haven't done a valuation of the pension scheme??