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Hayden's move on the last lap made it an excellent day for Ducatti - long overdue this season.

Is it just me, or does the sponsor's logo remind you of something ? ( Plus mods - can you please remove the duplicate thread ? Ta )

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At a university Valentine's dance that we had both, independently, decided not to go to - but were persuaded by friends at the last minute.

All I can think of is the bit in Have I Got News For You when, just after his appointment, Paul Merton described him as having the 'eyes of a killer'. I also had a chuckle at the commentator on the telly this morning describing him as a 'Pope for the 21st century' - he's 83 FFS, he won't see much more of it !

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol: Funniest line on the forum - ever !

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His major problem is that technically the Nazis were !

Johnny B, what that table show is that the bottom 10% of public sector workers are better paid than the botom 10% of private sector, and so on for each percentile - it does not counter my point that like for like in terms of the job function the public sector is quite possibly worse off. I could also point out that the quoted MEAN ( ie average ) salary on table 13.7 shows £25344 for public sector and £27451 for the private, so you can prove anything with statistics !

What an absolutely pointless statistical generalisation that report is. There is no hiding the fact that the lowest paid workers in the country are in the private sector; a combination of zero-hour contracts, contracting out of the lower paid manual workers from the public sector, jobs such as hospitality and agriculture being solely private sector based, and non-compliance with minimum wage legislation, all lead to this - but that doesn't mean the public sector is overpaid. This report also points out that the top paid x% are all in the private sector. The key comparisons are 'like for like' jobs, particularly skilled professional 'technical' posts, and I suspect that there is at best parity, and more often than not a lower wage in the public sector.

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The Tory parish magazines ( Daily Heil, Torygraph, and Express ) are merely putting out the blue rinse propaganda machine's response to the debates at the TUC conference. There is always a ( very small ) nugget of truth in these stories, but inevitably both sides will severely distort this to satisfy their salivating target audiences. These are merely the opening skirmishes in what will increasingly become a very dirty war, and those that suffer will be the service users of the public sector; and the less well off you are, the more it will hurt.

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If only because it's untenable - anybody earning at that level will find a clever accountant/banker to help them squirrel it away beyond the grasp of HMRC.

" General Secretary Matt Wrack said: ‘It’s very easy for people who do not risk their lives fighting fires to sneer at people who do. ‘Mr McGuirk is among the highest paid fire chiefs in the country, getting more than £200,000 a year. He is massively overpaid. ‘For that money we could get six fully trained firefighters, which would be a much better use of scarce resources.’ " [url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1312093/Fire-chief-Tony-McGuirk-s-devastating-verdict-bone-idle-public-sector.html#ixzz0za8ojosX][/url]

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I've taken a £1400 drop this year, and now have freezes for the for at least the next 2, How special am I ?

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