My brother will be okay. He has worked from the age of 15 to 50, and has just been made redundant. As has his 23 year old son who is a corgi registered gas fitter. I suspect there will be a lot more formerly working parents to whom this will not matter.

As for the rest of the tripe this moron spouts, one hardly knows where to begin. Of course, the usual bunch of Daiy mail reading, clueless Torys will be along soon, bemoaning the unions and over paid, lazy public sector workers, with not a word against the bankers and the crisis they have created. Nor will they complain about the millionaire cabinet members who have not lost on single pound in this so called 'recession'.

I wonder how long it will be before Gove, or another of this band of brigands, will find opportunity to spout off about what a fine tradition of protest wwe have in this country and how this is one of the things that makes us a such an outstanding democracy.

And all the while, I am eagerly awaiting the toxicology reports on Camerans Tory cohort who carked it in a most undignified fashion in a portaloo at Glastonbury. And I can't wait to find out who the 'female' was that the news keep mentioning as being comforted by police after they found the cadaver. One doesn't like to speculate, but our holier than thou politicions, on both sides of the house (but often more so on the right) are hardly strangers to illicit sex and drug abuse - despite passing laws and judgement on the rest of us for such behavior.

This entire government of playboy millionaires appears to be highly inept, incompetant, and corrupt. A poxy degre in economics does not give you ability to run a country, and where degrees are often tightly linked to the old school tie, barely the ability to run a small business. We need rid of these scum before they destroy everything great about this country and leave us, as that did, merely the 51st State of America.

Yes Michael and your Government , made up mainly of clowns and millionaires will, sorry already have loss the support of the voters, roll on the next election, cant wait, to see the greasy snidy ToryDems get booted out of office.

Funny how Gove asked parents to cross picket lines and keep schools open, without being CRB checked for that particular establishment (taking 2-3 months when I had an enhanced CRB check to work with a kids theatre group). Nor will they have any health and safety training and some wont be able to read and write properly, never mind take a subject such as History or Chemistry for even a day. And could you imagine a radical christian or Muslim going in and trying to teach science. Ridiculous.

One thing I've not seen mentioned on the pensions thing either is MP's platinum plated pensions paid for by us with a weekly pension exceeding the annual take home pay of some of the poorest in society. MP's should have their state pensions removed and they should make their own provisions and see if they still get a similar deal. At the moment it seems to be a case of "do as I say, not as I do".

"I think it is wrong for people who are working hard to have their lives disrupted in this way" so says Michael Gove. And I think it is wrong that teachers should be treated so shabbily and then made to feel they are the ones in the wrong - this is just the tip of the iceberg Mr "all in this together" Gove - as you and your hatchet cronies are going to find out....

The education secretary needs educating himself, the strikers will not loose respect from parents, in all they will probably gain respect from them.

If they did not threaten to undermine peoples hard earned pensions, then there would be no reason to threaten to strike. Simple as that!!!

The Government should be run by people of all backgrounds, poor, working, middle classes who all have valuable contributions to make to the running of this country. If a good and fair balance is not found soon, Anarchy will come.

If you can read this, and if Mr. Gove can read, which I hope he can bearing in mind his job, he probably owes it to a dedicated teacher who wasn't knackered and was able to make the lessons interesting.

Perhaps in the old days, when we all danced round the maypole, knew our spellings and 16x table, and could recite irrelevent verses from Shakespeare (not that Shax is irrelevent, but learning gobbits makes it so), perhaps then teachers could carry on teaching the same stuff for decades and getting better at it as year succeeded year.

Now however, with whining children who have no discipline, a lack of respect from some parents (encouraged by a Secretary of State) confronted by a multimedia world of entertainment which develops the attention span of a goldfish, and with constant change in the curriculum so that as soon as you refine what you've done you have to change it it teachers burn out.

Until this simple fact is taken seriously and dignified and sustainable paths out of the heat are provided for teachers who in their 50's want to reduce their workload, teachers' morale will suffer, children will suffer from being taught by insecure and grumpy teachers.

Perhaps Mr. Gove should take a look in the mirror and decide if we want name calling and bullying in education. Then he should lead by example. And then perhaps he would gain some respect.

Currently retiring teacher.

What I find most disturbing is a government threatening to make it even harder or impossible for workers to strike. Many employees are now being told by their employers to accept all manner of unreasonable practices. Exploitation always comes with a Tory in number 10.

He warned the unions: “The public have a very low tolerance for anything that disrupts their hard-working lifestyles."

Yes they do such as losing their jobs and income because of the political dogmatic policies being followed by his government.