Mr Eagles The first paragraph is an awesome opening, but for the record it was Anna Coke who married Charles Paget Tennant. (View Post)

Not exactly, but: Why did the Scots get the oil and the Irish potatoes? The Irish had first choice. (View Post)

Some civil servants are *paid* more than the PM. That is not quite the same thing... (View Post)

She criticised a lot of Civil Servants who are still there. And still drunk, to judge by their output. So I don't see that as invalidating the hypothesis. (View Post)

Quite a lot. Cleaners. Kitchen staff. Drivers. Gardeners. TAs. Community workers. People who never get thought about when we talk of 'public sector' because we all think of posh idiot fat c… (View Post)