Sums by day, moonlight at night
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WHO SAYS that wealth has not been redistributed under the Tories? A schoolmaster who qualified as a heavy goods vehicle driver after a week's course claims that he can earn far more on lorries than as a teacher who had to study for three years to gain a certificate of education. His net salary as a mathematics teacher is, he says, £120 a week whereas in the school holidays he can earn more than £200 a week as a lorry driver.
He also drives for an agency on Friday nights after school. An elaborate body of law has been built up to protect the public against tired drivers yet a teacher can moonlight over a 24hour day without risk of prosecution. A professional lorry driver who did so could find himself in serious trouble.
The teacher should join two colleagues who have opened a fish and chip shop. With his mathematical qualifications he would be an asset in calculating vat.
There might also be a place in the shop for a physics graduate who is a part-time coach driver and is to take up additional work on double-deckers to eke out his £414 a month net pay as a teacher. In this age of nuclear fission chips, the fish trade needs him.