So far, so good. That's in my present employment.

I have been made redundant four and a half times in my working life, tho ' (I am 64).

The half ? you ask - yes. When Militant ruled Liverpool, your correspondent was Senior Lecturer in Law at what was then Liverpool Polytechnic.

We didn't know from one month to the next whether we'd be paid.

When the funds ran out, there was Degsy and his mates, running round with whores in taxis, dishing out the redundancy notices.

Oh, how we laughed . . .