Tommy G

What about people who work in the private sector, poorly paid, and don’t have the option to strike? On zero hours contracts, 4 mouths to feed etc etc. I haven’t even made any comment about teachers striking! This was a discussion about kids breakfast clubs and the cost of it, shock horror it’s turned around to be something completely different.

Amalgam or Composite ? Bit more work than just a filling, he’s got to drill out the old filling and refill it basically

Congrats for picking out a few roles that pay more than £49k - I think there are plenty of people on this forum who earn a lot less than that and work very hard for it and be pretty offended by flippant comments like that. It’s not really the point of the conversation around whether or not it will cost £4 or not for breakfast club. I think it’s a generalisation to say anyone who has complained about teachers strikes is a admin pen pusher too.

Thanks - absolutely grim

My original point goes back to it should be means tested, be as sarcastic as you like, I just don’t think this policy (another one) is thought through well at all. Feed the kids! Great idea, let’s spin this out in the media ahead of the budget. It’s should distract everyone from this last weeks PR disaster and the upcoming budget. If you read carefully it’s only being piloted in a selection of schools this year.

Your first point is a bit jumbled - teachers have just had a 5.5% pay increase and the median pay for teachers is now £49k - if that means they are paid f all then that’s a matter of opinion. I don’t think every single parent is an admin worker, and that then withdraws your right to complain about strikes So are you saying you think it will cost more or less than £4 an hour per pupil? I’m not sure what point you’re making.

Been quoted £695 for a porcelain crown today - is that about right? And £299 for a filling.

It’s currently charged at £4 for about an hour, it’s not the cost of the breakfast it’s the cost of kids to staff ratios that will be the actual cost here, which is quite obvious. Imagine a couple of hundred kids- associated costs as follows - cereal, toast, staff wages, employers NI, energy costs, cost of material to keep said kids occupied etc etc.

Absolutely - with that £800 I could probably get a new suit and a pair of glasses

Yeh it won’t be means tested - it’s nuts. Most parents will think great, drop the kids off at 8am and they’ll feed them too! When they can do this perfectly themselves, will be a nice offset to the tax hikes, I’ll be rinsing them for every penny - £20 a week it would normally cost so there’s £800 a year based on a 40 week school year.

I don’t think so - we have sanitised the whole game so you can barely breathe without being punished - football was so much more enjoyable with a bit of needle - yesterdays game had that and it was the most I’ve enjoyed watching a game in a while, chucking the ball playfully at someone’s head - big deal

It's a lovely headline grab, but beyond that it will be really hard to implement. In my sons primary you can't get a breakfast club place as there aren't enough staff to 'staff it effectively' so theres about 10 pupils per day subscribed in a school of 300, currently £4 a day, make that free and its a ''free for all'' I'll be watching closely to see if this ever makes if off the ground.

Some money to spend in Jan if this goes through quick

That midfield 5 need minutes as they are part of the first team squad, Alves isn't. He should be out on loan to a championship/League 1 club playing 90 every week but it seems the club couldn't manage to do that!

What sort of beta behaviour is this

I think you can tell a lot about someone on how they sign off their emails!

No, Andy’s

Ambling along a motorway slip road at 40 miles an hour about to join the motorway should be a automatic 3 points

People who “cc” you into emails and expect you to even acknowledge it. Either that or unnecessary pleasantries. No one says “with best regards”.

SunKing

It might have been boos but could of been thunder tbh

No offence but this is getting a bit weird, I’m out.

The traffic slow moving or not makes no difference whatsoever.

No he went down the LEFT HAND SIDE OF MY CAR. How difficult is this.

People will associate fear of flying with the fact that if the plan crashes you're dead. If you face a spider, what are the consequences? Unless you are in an exotic part of the world, absolute nothing!