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Monthly Archives: March 2014

Thinktank proposing monthly fee for NHS is funded by private healthcare companies

March 31, 2014

(not satire – it’s the corrupt UK today!) Labour peer Lord Warner – who has written a report released today proposing …

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Tory council wastes money on an umbrella-wrapping machine but cuts lollipop ladies

March 30, 2014

(not satire – it’s the Tories!) Conservative councillors in Tory-controlled Croydon council decided to spend over £140 million on a lavish new HQ …

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I was sex toy of top Tories claims Nick Clegg

March 30, 2014

(satire?) Nick Clegg has claimed today that he was forced into sexual slavery and was used as an unwilling ‘rent boy’ by senior …

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UKIP demands clocks put back not forward

March 29, 2014

(satire?) The United Kingdom Independence Party has demanded that clocks should not be put forward one hour tomorrow morning, but …

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Lest we forget – more Tory MPs voted against gay marriage than voted for it

March 29, 2014

(not satire – it’s the Tories!) While Cameron is congratulating himself on the historic passing of legislation allowing same-sex marriage …

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UKIP drops opposition to gay marriage after hot weather forecast for UK

March 29, 2014

(satire?) The United Kingdom Independence Party has announced it is to review its opposition to equal marrriage legislation – which …

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Scientists discover Tories’ reasoning ability rivals that of a 7-year-old human child

March 28, 2014

(satire?) By our science correspondent Some species of Tories could be as advanced at reasoning and logical thinking as a human seven-year-old child, …

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Meet the NHS patient representative who seems to have a problem with women

March 27, 2014

(not satire – it’s the UK today!) Meet Roger Goss from an organisation called Patient Concern: Goss has been popping up …

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Pro-gay marriage and a Firefox user? You may want to change web browser

March 26, 2014

(not satire!) New Firefox CEO donated to anti-gay marriage campaign If you’re pro-equal marriage and a Firefox user you might want …

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Nick Clegg announces “conscious uncoupling” from reality

March 26, 2014

(satire?) After more than 4 years of marriage to David Cameron, comic actor Nick Clegg has announced he is to separate …

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Tory vice chair – unqualified teachers hired “on the cheap” in UK schools

March 26, 2014

(not satire – it’s the Tories!) The education secretary Michael Gove has decided that unqualified teachers can teach our children. …

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UK’s shame – now we’re jailing schoolchildren and deporting them alone without their parents

March 25, 2014

(not satire – it’s the UK today!) (not satire – it’s the UK today!) I’m starting to become ashamed of …

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Russia ready to annex Chelsea Football Club, Nato commander claims

March 24, 2014

(satire?) Nato‘s most senior military commander said on Sunday that Russia had amassed a large force of oligarchs on the border of …

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Violent thugs with public school accents and connections to the very top of the Tory Party

March 23, 2014

(not satire – it’s the Tories!) This story isn’t new but I feel it needs more traction. In 2007, two …

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Tory bid to allow UKIP voters to be flushed out by packs of pro-hunting attack dogs

March 23, 2014

(satire?) Pro-hunting Tories are striving to overturn the current laws related to fox hunting so that UKIP voters in rural …

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SURVEY – the Daily Mail thinks George Osborne is sexy. What do you think?

March 22, 2014

(not satire – it’s the Daily Mail!) Sometimes I fear for the sanity of Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre. In …

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Grant Shapps: I love digging holes as much as I love beer and bingo

March 21, 2014

(satire?) Conservative party chairman Grant Shapps has responded to criticism of his ‘condescending’ bingo and beer poster by saying he loves digging …

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Boost to north England economy as Osborne pledges to reduce duty on whippets

March 21, 2014

(satire?) In his budget announced yesterday, the Chancellor George Osborne has made a big step to improving low growth levels …

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This is why the Tory bingo poster isn’t just funny – it’s downright creepy:

March 20, 2014

(not satire – it’s the Tories!) Here’s an extract from George Orwell’s novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four (my highlights): “Heavy physical work, the care …

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Best of #ToryBingo on Twitter

March 20, 2014

(not satire – it’s the out-of-touch Tories!) Working class? Bored of playing with your whippet, drinking beer and eating pasties? …

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Oops! Tory Chair Grant Shapps admits Tories are not hardworking people

March 19, 2014

(not satire – it’s the Tories!) Leaving aside the fact the Tories are putting satirists and political sketch writers out …

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Treasury to unveil new 12-sided Vince Cable

March 19, 2014

(satire?) A new 12-sided Vince Cable has been unveiled by the Chancellor George Osborne to replace the famously two-faced one …

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Irrefutable proof that Liberal Democrats are robots

March 19, 2014

(not satire – it’s the Lib Dems!) Here it is – irrefutable proof that Liberal Democrats are not human beings …

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Labour leads Tories by 17% – new poll shows Labour the party of hard workers

March 18, 2014

(not satire!) An unusual new poll by polling company Survation – which includes only people who are in employment – …

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Lib Dem? Feeling impotent? Keep losing your elections? Get help here:

March 18, 2014

(satire?) For most politicians, the occasional loss of an election shouldn’t be seen as anything more than a minor inconvenience. …

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South London Tory MP gets attacked in a hospital by a pensioner

March 17, 2014

(not satire – it’s the Tories!) This hilarious status has just been posted on Facebook: Sitting in the blood test …

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Advice on what to do after a car crash – by car crash expert Iain Duncan Smith

March 17, 2014

(satire?) Pride’s Purge is taking a break from politics with an interesting article on what to do after a car …

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Dad deported from UK for having cancer

March 17, 2014

(not satire – it’s the UK today!) The coalition government is so desperate to show it has reduced immigration before …

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Flight MH370 captain: only laws that are good should be abided by

March 16, 2014

(not satire) The captain of missing Malaysian airways Flight MH370 – Captain Zaharie Shah –  had a YouTube account. Here …

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Boris Johnson’s crime chief says he’s ‘pleased’ rape is on the rise in London

March 16, 2014

(not satire – it’s Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson!) Boris Johnson’s deputy mayor for policing and crime, Stephen Greenhalgh, said yesterday …

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