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    #41
    Originally posted by 2BIT View Post
    its stupid, everyone knows most peeps put CofE out of some nationalistic pride rather than any religious affiliation so that stat is meaningless, why campaign to get people to change?
    Because its exactly the sort of stat that the government will use to maintain a two tier education system by continuing to fund faith schools
    "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "


    Thomas Jefferson

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      #42
      Originally posted by Ruprect View Post
      Because its exactly the sort of stat that the government will use to maintain a two tier education system by continuing to fund faith schools
      3 tier.
      ‎"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."

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        #43
        Originally posted by Ruprect View Post

        Anyone done it yet? How intrusive? Big Brother is watching YOU
        I'm opting out - I'll turn off the lights and hide behind the sofa when the checkers come round.

        The more indigenous British people do that, the worse the immigration figures will look, which will hopefully be an incentive for the Government to curb it more.
        Work in the public sector? Read the IR35 FAQ here

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          #44
          Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
          I'm opting out - I'll turn off the lights and hide behind the sofa when the checkers come round.

          The more indigenous British people do that, the worse the immigration figures will look, which will hopefully be an incentive for the Government to curb it more.
          I'll ask my wife to do the same just to spite you.

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            #45
            Originally posted by VectraMan View Post
            Heard on the radio today this is something to do with the welsh. Apparently the welsh have a question 17, which the rest of us don't get to see.

            Can somebody welsh tell us what it is?
            Isn't that racist if only the welsh get the question
            Doing the needful since 1827

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              #46
              Originally posted by fullyautomatix View Post
              Got mine yesterday.

              Did it online 5 minutes ago.

              My god, it is pretty intrusive, you feel like they have stripped you naked and examined you with a microscope.

              On the plus side, the online form was very easy to use and reliable. Well done to whoever was in charge of the software.
              You see, they can get govt. computing right when they really want to.
              Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.

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                #47
                Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
                I'm opting out - I'll turn off the lights and hide behind the sofa when the checkers come round.
                I tried that once, although in truth I was usually working away from home for weeks at a time.

                A chap from the council finally came around on a Sunday afternoon and got me to fill it out on the spot.

                They don't let go that easy.
                Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.

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                  #48
                  Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
                  Question 17 revealed:

                  "How well do you speak English?"

                  Do they put a filter in for the Cockneys or the Meeja Mockneys? They might answer "very well", but as we all know that's not true.

                  Oh, the religion question is voluntary.

                  "How would you describe your national identity?"

                  Yorkshire.
                  Last edited by Sysman; 12 March 2011, 17:36.
                  Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.

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                    #49
                    Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post
                    3 tier.
                    Know what you mean, but the govt tends to steer clear of public schools (of course they are all educated in them but they tend not to legislate about them)
                    "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "


                    Thomas Jefferson

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                      #50
                      Originally posted by Old Greg View Post

                      I'll ask my wife to do the same just to spite you.
                      I'll see your one wife, and raise you three fictitious immigrants renting my spare room.
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