I think there are currently no fewer than 16 MPs who have had the whip suspended and are technically independents, which is a huge number. Worth remembering that this covers a range of things from se… (View Post)

I'm not sure GPs would even count as public sector in the figures HYUFD quotes. (View Post)

No it doesn't. The average doesn't mean anything as the mix of jobs in the private and public sectors is so different. I'm not arguing the reverse, by the way, that public sector emplo… (View Post)

It's just completely meaningless to take the average pay of surgeons, teachers, and lollipop ladies, and compare that with the average of investment bankers, accountants, supermarket shelf stack… (View Post)

In my own case, I'm glad my parents went for option 1. But that's in the context of private school fees being quite a lot lower at that time, the school in question being very good, and the… (View Post)