[Mike_A]

Kursk, you are quite correct. The staff concerned are, of course, entitled to provide opinions - and they are useful opinions. Debate has two sides. I did not intend to suggest otherwise. Apologies.

My tenor was meant to be more like a mirthful comment, the type of which is shared amongst friends in a pub, but writing doesn't always convey that. In that context, as with chatter about who the best of two football sides is, and given the obvious legal basis that people have to stick to a contract once agreed, their comments have a ring of either deception or wholesale misunderstanding of law {nudge nudge, wink wink - and David Beckham is a terrible footballer...}