On Dec 2, 8:31*am, Nick wrote:
On Dec 1, 11:28*pm, Joe Egginton wrote:





On 01/12/2011 16:45, Alan LeHun wrote:

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Jeremy Clarkson - not !!

He'd be too busy rubbing his hands with glee I would have thought. What
I want to know is how JC knew that the peeps at the very top of one of
the UK's major unions could be so gullible and naive.

JC know's exactly what he's doing. I can only surmise that the next
series of TG starts soon.

I'm unsure whether JC knows what he's fully doing, or that he's a type
of person that can't help speak before he thinks through the consequences.

Either way, the question it raises is, do poe face unionists know what
satire is? *His comment on PS workers was obviously said in jest.

Joe Egginton
Wolverhampton
175m asl

While it's obvious he doesn't actually want anyone shot, what is also
obvious is that he does harbour the sort of poisonous anti-public-
sector views that sadly too many people in this country appear to have
at the moment. While the union guy over-reacted, one can understand
his anger when the rest of us are apparently having to pay for the
actions of the world of international finance while the very
instigators of the recession apparently get off scot-free. It's time
the bankers paid, for a change, but they never will because they are
part of Osborne's social circle - just like the energy company heads
who are being allowed to increase bills way above the rate of
inflation.

It also gives legitimacy to the sort of extreme anti-public-sector
views which appear to be becoming common in this country. There seems
to be a rather toxic undercurrent developing in which, thanks to the
media and the politicians, everyone bar the people who actually caused
the recession are being blamed for it. The public sector, immigrants,
Muslims, single mothers, the unemployed, you name it - they're all
apparently to blame. Not the bankers or their friends the Conservative
Party.

So yes, I'm afraid I did find Clarkson's comments offensive, though
I'm satisfied now he's apologised.

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Me too. He's an idiot, but he's very entertaining.

As to the pensions dispute - I have no strong views. I'm grateful for
my index-linked pension, which now sits there until I draw it (doubt
if I'll make it that far, but anyway!) but as I'm now firmly in the
private sector, I can see why so many are understandably jealous of
that pension. On the other hand, I didn't earn highly for much of that
time, so the pension had to be supplemented by an AVC for years,
reducing my income even further. No regrets though at my career path
and I can see both sides of the argument.

Teachers having to teach your (mainly, here) granchildren, at **67**
years old is a different matter! No -one went into teaching expecting
to hve to do that and it will put new entrants (fantastic, the quality
of many young teachers; it blows me away) to have to do that. It's
nigh on impossible to do it well for someone of that age.