LGTL

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??

What? Some realism for the Private Sector workers that have rose tinted glasses on concerning their own work and value? Good.

An interesting snippet from the BBC; "An interesting change of language by the prime minister's official spokesman today. Pressed over whether David Cameron still believed public sector pension schemes were in danger of going broke, the No 10 spokesman said: "We are seeking to make the system fairer." No longer saying that the public sector pension schemes are "untenable". A word used by the Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude this morning on the Today programme who said he was quoting from Lord Hutton's report on the issue. But further questioning from Evan Davies revealed that nowhere does Lord Hutton make that claim, rather he argues that the drive to reform public sector pensions is a matter of "fairness". It now seems someone at No 10 has read the report more closely." So can you all stop using the "we're broke" excuse please. Thanks.

At least he and others are doing something proactive in order to show their disdain, even if you don't agree with the reasons. Striking is a perfectly legal concept, not if the tories got their way though. What did the Private Sector do when all this "happened to them too" that we've heard so much about on this thread? Some people say they just got on with it, whereas others argue they cried and whimpered into their private healthcare, shares and overtime, realising they didn't have it so bad afterall, whilst cuddling up and being a lapdog to their boss just because they were "grateful to have a job". Please. They could have showed some backbone. That sums up my time perfectly working in the Private Sector actually. Full of hot air and bullsh*t.

Getting back to the teacher strike, I find it amazing that Cameron and co haven't even performed a promised valuation of the pension scheme. What does that tell you? That the results would not look great upon the governemnt I imagine, because if it was the opposite you can bet it would have been done months ago.

I post on the Englandfans forum and there is a group of 20 or so who are a bit cliquey, all meet up for a love in at games and if you dare disagree with one of them all hell breaks lose. This forum is alot of things, great and bad, but i've never found it cliquey, and I like that.