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Looks like Danns in on his way to Rangers.

Agree about Alan McLoughlin. Cost us £1m when that was a lot of cash. Was really excited about him but he was gash. Anders Svensson was a good player playd out of position. He was awesome when we turnes Spuds over. Delgado was also a decent player, you don't pick up many decent goal scoring internationals for £3m. Shame he just didn't work out for us.

Becaue I work for the the Crown Prosecution Service. Do you really think you can stick a knife into someone, take their life and get away scot free without a very, very good reason?

And if it is you what purpose does that serve? If they threaten to kill you and it is you or them that is one issue. If they are just threatening and want to take your goodies, why leave your kids fatherless?

You shouldn't go breaking into peoples houses but it is a matter of degree. It is worse to stick a knife into someone. Even the courts can't take someone's life, so how do you think you will fare in court if you take the law into your own hands? It might seem unfair but whichever way you look at it, killing someone still ranks higher than breaking and entering.

There are two sides to every story. I'd like to hear Wotte's before I made a judgement. He stuck around and helped out when things got tough so fair play to him for that.

You would have to prove that your life was in danger and that you had no option. Most burglers are after nicking stuff, not killing the householders. You would have a tough job proving self defence.

Through agents

Yep.

Very sad news.

Just off to see my three little girls for a treat that I shall be paying for. Still, it is a good investment. One day they will be choosing my rest home!

Yep, a highpoint in monumental career in which she single handily wiped any vestige of industry forn these shores so that we no longer produce anything and those with jobs work in the service industry meaning there are fewer job so even more people are on benefits. Yes, the unions were too powerful and yes they needed to be checked and ways other than striking found to deal with industrial problems. But by emasculating the unions she also emasculated the country.

I and my staff all earn well below the national average wage level. I can assure you Dune that we, and the people at our level in the criminal justice system do live in the real world. There was a time when I would have agreed with you but over the last few years the harsh wind of economic change has hit the public sector very hard. THose higher up the management rung aren't so badly off financially but the vast majority do not earn decent money and many usually stay because they have child care issues and the leave and flexi time help. It is soul destroying being told you have to work even harder yet your pay is frozen, you have precious little chance of promotion and your business managers are cutting costs/staff to the extent that you can't do your job properly. In every level of my building we are under staffed. It is because we live in the real world and because we have to pay real world prices that we are hacked off. The one thing that kept many pople going year afte year was the thought that they would have a decent pension at the end of it - now even that is being taken away. More than half of my staff volunteered for the early exit scheme. If things were so wonderful don't you think they would want to stay?

You need to spend some time in our ofice then Dune. We have disciplinary procedures but we cant follow through because everyone is too afraid to sack people. Our sickness rate is a joke. Doctors are happy to sign people off for 6 months with stress at the drop of a hat but then people are stressed because w edont have enough staff to do the work.

Keep wanting more? LOL. 3 year pay freeze. Recruitment freeze Colleagues being laid off. Yep, its all sunshine in the public sector.

But the government are trying to justify it. Although I think this all sucks, I won't be striking though.

I have worked on both sides and can say that the public sector is very poorly paid in comparison with private sector jobs and theer is very little job security nowdays as the cuts bite. The up side is you do get a lot of leave but that doesn't pay the mortgage. I am a low level manager. I am earning half of what I did ten years ago. My pay has been frozen for 3 years as have recruitment so little chance of promotion. The lower paid workers below me have not had their pay frozen so the differentila is shrinking. We are heavily understaffed. Because everyone is under pressure sick absence is off the scale. People want a criminal justice system, teachers, street cleaners etc but they don't want to pay for them. My partner has been in the civil service all her life and has stayed because although the pay is poor the pension was good. What is wrong with that? if she was working the the private sector she would double her money overnight. Both of us work from 8:30 to 7:00 fr no extra money. This is so that the people in the privare sector who expect a certain level of service get it. It is all very well saying the country is skint so cut public pensions butwe are not playing on a level field and all you get ispoorly payed workers with a poor pension. How is that fair? Cut pensions but raise salaries to private sector levels.

If you had been following the thread you would know that I work in the CPS and see the case files every day.

You have completely missed the point.

Everyone seems to be dying though!

I expect you see several people a week that you are sexually attracted by. Do you rape them? If men raped women because they were sexually attracted to them tens of thousands of women would be raped every day. A large percentage of women who get raped are not what you would call "sexually attractive."

If it increased the chances or rape then most women would be raped when dressed "provocatively" wouldn't they? The opposite is true. So are you saying a guy gets turned on by seeing someone looking sexy and then goes off and rapes someone looking unsexy? Many rapes are committed by someone known to the victim. It has more to do with availability than dress. Wrong place, wrong time.

Keith Emerson, now you are talking!!!!

Good strike but have you to love that defending!

Ted Bates and Simon Jordan????