Thorpe-le-Saint

I went to the Colchester one a few years ago, was good but the hour soon passes

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/13987369.stm

Good news

I'll get him to forge my signature or something, as I said, I'm not going to drive 200 miles to sign a stupid piece of paper.

Good-o, I'll think I'll ring up the day before and just check with them though. As long as they don't ask to prove that he is me...

WHAT?! Can family members take it out for you? I'm certainly not going to drive 200 miles down get one when my brother could pick it up for me.

Why would a maths graduate accept 21k in teaching when they could command 35k elsewhere?!? Teaching may be a vocation, but 14k would do a lot of talking. Remember, the NUT and ATL are not affiliated to Labour, maybe that's why Miliband didn't say anything conclusive?

see my reply to dunce...

Because regardless of public support he would have been charged of supporting, what the right wing has termed, reactionary strike action when negotiations are apparently still on going. He was never going to win: Either bite off the hand that feeds him, or face claims by the Tories that he bowed to pressure from the unions.

I'm with you LD - as a Labour party leader he should have come out in support of the strikes, but it would have been political suicide at this stage I believe akin to Foot.

A bit of both IMO. I think he would believe in strikes during the autumn, but he is saying he isn't supporting them now because he wants to seem detatched from a potential rash reaction to them.

For exactly the reason you just stated. He doesn't want to seem to be in the pocket of the unions: I think this will come back to bite him in the arse in future years.

I thought you hated animal cruelty? Another hypocritical Tory I suppose and before you come out with the old "it's culture" ********, it's barbaric and should be stopped, end of. It's in the same league as bear baiting, dog and cock fights.

We've suffered the same you realise and the pensions are the last straw. I think many of you on here underestimate the support we have. Colchester is extremely receptive, mates in Chelmsford are reporting lots of office workers applauding and from what I've seen on the BBC London is the same. It's only a start, but it's a fight that we MUST and ultimately WILL win. Anyway, back to it, protesting to protect the quality of he services you all use. By the way, I take umbrage with your insinuation that I called you 'gay'. It was Sergei who jumped to that conclusion, I merely asked if you had moved in.

Off to picket in Colchester. UNITY IS STRENGTH!

Sure, give me some evidence to prove me wrong and I'll retract my statement. Best of luck with that. I hope you're seriously inconvenienced by the public sector tomorrow; it might make you realise how much you need us pal. Roll on consecutive and across the board teacher strike action in the autumn.

As part of the commercial banking sector he and others not just in The City but around the globe created this crisis which has ****ed over the entire planet! They are all responsible and should be publicly lambasted, take pay cuts, have the personal losses they made at their bank taken from their pay cheques and put in the public exchequer in installmenta and ALL bonuses should stop until the country is on it's feet again. Yes I will call him a right ****ing **** because why should he get away scot free when I and millions of others are having to suffer the **** that he created? The day I see a banker fall on hard times will be the day hell freezes over, the largest bunch of self serving ****s outside of Westminster.

I'm afraid I won't be jeopardising my career by doing that, but I'll be happy to pop by and explain why he is an absolute **** who should be forced to pay for double that amount seeing as his despicable scum-like ilk created this crisis. Now, go back to licking his arse like the faithful lap dog you are. There's a good boy.

Have you and your oh-so-marvellous banker chum moved in together yet? If not, you'll always have the free holidays eh?

Or voted Labour

To think of all the hard working people who missed out on a pay rise when you got one for sitting on your arse doing **** all. This country is fundamentally wrong.

You won't hear teachers moaning about that I assure you. Teaching should be a profession where you need a minimum of a 2:1 with a Masters degree or a 1:1 in either the subject you graduated in or education. But as you say, in order to do this, they would need to raise the pay as most graduates would much rather sacrifice the holiday for an extra ten grand they could earn in the private sector.

Yes you do, even when I moved schools, both within the same LEA, I was made to fill another one out. I'm used to it by now, the job I had at Uni required a CRB check as well.

Well dunce, if you know enough parents that are CRB checked, which is a LEGAL requirement, then they can be my guest and take over my classes for the day. If they're not CRB checked, I hope the tory pet papers lambast this moronic idea.

We get it, the public hates teachers. In other news...