Police fitted panic button in RMT leader Bob Crow’s home because he was a ‘target’
(not satire – it’s the UK today!) You don’t expect to hear stories in the UK of people being attacked …
Category Archives: cynicism
Scandal of Lib Dem payments to agree break-up and sell-off of NHS
(not satire – it’s the Lib Dems!) A couple of weeks ago it was reported that top Liberal Democrat Party …
Tory agent: women MPs are ‘imbeciles’ who need a ‘good slap round the face’
(not satire – it’s the Tory Party!) A Conservative electoral agent and parliamentary assistant to a Tory MP has attacked feminists on Facebook saying …
Tories desperately try to hide their close links to Putin and his United Russia Party
(not satire – it’s the Tory Party!) Considering the recent events in Ukraine, it’s not very surprising the Tories are …
Supposedly pro-free speech UKIP tries to ban satirical comedy show
(not satire – it’s the UKIP!) I’ve written before about how few things annoy me more than UKIP members pretending …
Hmm! Days after paedophilia scandal at No 10 uncovered, Daily Mail attacked Harman
(not satire – it’s the UK today!) Look at this short timeline: Feb 13th: a top adviser to David Cameron …
Daily Mail columnist denies links to sinister child pornography distribution network
(satire?) One of the UK’s leading tabloid newspaper columnists, Richard Littlejohn, has denied he has close links to a sinister …
Climate change deniers – just who is Daily Mail reporter David Rose?
(not satire – it’s the Daily Mail!) “Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive“- Sir …
Council privatises children’s playground and charges £20 for children to play
(not satire – it’s the Tories!) Some Tory councils are now charging children to play. Conservative-controlled Wandsworth council bulldozed a …
Building supplier cashes in on misery and raises prices of sandbags in flood hit area
(not satire – it’s the UK today!) One of the UK’s biggest suppliers of building materials – Jewson – has …
Cameron ‘forgets’ to apply for EU money to help flood victims
(not satire – it’s the Tories!) Out of all the many blunders committed by the government so far in its …
Cameron pledges more bank bonuses and unregulated markets to tackle floods
(satire?) A resolute David Cameron vowed to marshal the forces of supply and demand and unregulated financial services to tackle the flooding crisis, pledging a wider role …
Here’s Cameron’s response to the flooding in a nutshell:
(not satire – it’s David Cameron!) This is David Cameron’s response to the flooding in a handy timeline: . Erm …
DWP considers privatisation of pensioners
(satire?) Department for Work and Pensions considers privatisation of OAPs as part of search for savings. The government is considering …
Cameron responds to floods crisis by holding a meeting. Named after a snake.
(Satire? I don’t know any more) There was relief in severely flood-hit parts of Britain after the Prime Minister David …
Look what this man did to find a job – and he was still sanctioned by the Job Centre
(not satire – it’s the UK today!) What do unemployed people have to do these days to prove to Job …
RAINBOW: new series with Nick as Bungle, Mike as Zippy and Rennard as George
(satire?) STARTING MONDAY! Don’t miss the brand new series of RAINBOW – a new production of tall tales, stories and …
Lib Dem councillor refers to deadly Ukraine clashes as ‘a Jolly’
(not satire – it’s the Lib Dems!) A Liberal Democrat councillor has accused a Welsh National Assembly member who got caught …
Tory MP threatens to call police if more than 10 people turn up at his surgery (not satire!)
(not satire – it’s the Tories!) Tory MP for Croydon South Richard Ottaway called the police when a group of 11 …
Typical Tory logic: money for water to use against protesters but not to put out fires
(not satire – it’s the Tories!) Boris Johnson has closed 10 fire stations in London: Protest as 10 London fire …
How the SDP took over Britain
(not satire – it’s the UK today!) The Social Democratic Party – which eventually joined with the Liberal Party to …
Oops! Guardian accidentally gets a headline wrong about the Lib Dems. Again.
(not satire – it’s the Guardian!) There’s a nice puff piece in the Guardian today about one of their beloved Lib …
The Etonian war-time traitor who got away with high treason
(not satire) Compare wartime hero Alan Turing’s treatment - who committed suicide after being forcibly castrated for homosexuality – with that …
Please remember – the Lib Dems and Tories refused Alan Turing a pardon in 2012
(not satire – it’s ConDemNation today) It’s great that one of Britain’s greatest wartime heroes, Alan Turing – who tragically …
Boris Johnson to close 3 fire stations that sent engines to the Apollo Theatre
(not satire – it’s Boris Johnson!) The High Court today has ruled that London Mayor Boris Johnson can go ahead …
Ministers in desperate bid to cover up massive military pensions error
(not satire – it’s the UK today) It seems government ministers are desperately trying to cover up a huge error they have …
P&O Ferries value their shop goods over the lives of their passengers?
(not satire – it’s the UK today!) Six months ago, Richard Fearnside was travelling home from holiday on a night …
UKIP Cllr who called care children ‘takers’ got state grants for his own children
(not satire – it’s the UKIP!) A UKIP councillor in Cambridgeshire who accused 3 children in care of being “takers …
“Back to work” scheme prevents unemployed from …. getting back to work!
(not satire – believe it or not – it’s the UK today!) Another one to add to my growing collection …
The single killer question from ATOS that drove a woman to suicide
(not satire – it’s ATOS) I might have to stop writing satire. It seems I might be giving the wrong …
