I tink w all admire the many achievements of Musket. he is obviously a man of great resourceful ness and ability. well done to him. I can't imagine anyone with his lowly origins not being proud and contented with all that his career has encompassed.

but lets face it Ian. you are being less than honest with yourself about the present situations. its not good for lots of people.

I remember the first time I did a days supply teaching at a comp in Hucknall - . about 86. I was stuck at home - couldn't gig, after my hit record as Denise was too ill. i'd tried running a recording studio - but the technology moved too fast for anyone to keep affording.

my first day - and at break time. I was saying to another teacher how nice the kids were, the last teaching I had done was in Newtown , Brum. after big city kids -they were a delight.

this teacher said to me. oh yes the kids are lovely here. the only problem is, after the third year - they know they're going down the mines and the girls know they're going to marry a miner. and it is REALLY difficult to interest them in anything.

there are so many parts of England where education isn't really part of the traditional warp and weft of working class life. and presumably - you know all this Musket -its where you come from.

you aren't being priced out of a job by someone living in a shed. its buggered up wages for farm workers for years, England traditionally has a low wage economy. its not easy for people.

maybe its easy for tories getting cheap labour. and that's why Scotland needs desperately needs to get rid of the bastards, get them off their backs. we could do worse ourselves.