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Sshh! Don’t tell anyone but Cameron is trying to hide a report showing the Bedroom Tax has failed

December 17, 2015

While Labour members are busy tearing strips off each other – the Cameron government has tried to secretly slip out a report …

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Victorian Tory education policy: no disabled, no redheads and young children in forced isolation

April 19, 2015

(not satire – it’s Tory Britain!) The Tories are rapidly taking us back to Victorian times in many ways – not …

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Son of Thatcher’s ‘right-to-buy’ housing minister now owns 40 ex-council homes

April 14, 2015

(not satire – it’s the Tories!) Multi-millionaire Charles Gow is a buy-to-let landlord who owns over 40 former council flats. Which is interesting, …

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Police arrest parliamentary candidate for putting up campaign poster

April 13, 2015

(not satire – it’s the UK today) The police have arrested an election candidate for allegedly putting up an election poster. No, …

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Police follow and intimidate election candidate handing out leaflets

April 12, 2015

(not satire – it’s the UK today) Whatever you may think of Class War‘s politics – they have candidates standing …

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Tories pledge free vote on right to punch people in the face who don’t prepare dinner

March 14, 2015

(satire?) David Cameron has pledged a free vote in Parliament on punching people in the face who haven’t prepared dinner on …

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Cameron is clamping down on tax fraud. But by the working poor not the idle rich.

February 24, 2015

(not satire – it’s the UK today!) It’s not true at all that the Cameron government isn’t tackling tax fraud. …

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Taxpayers subsidising millionaire grouse shooters’ hobby

February 16, 2015

(not satire – it’s the Cameron government!) Did you know that millionaire grouse shooting landowners – whose well-heeled clients can …

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Prince Andrew snubbed tsunami aid workers in Thailand to attend a banquet

January 25, 2015

(not satire – it’s Prince Andrew!) From Angie – a former aid worker: “Unfortunately Prince Andrew is not of the …

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How wealthy landowners are destroying Britain’s wild birds – and getting away with it

January 18, 2015

(not satire – it’s the UK today!) Britain’s wealthy landowners are secretly waging war on Britain’s rarest wild birds in …

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It’s not just “sexual relations with an underage girl”. It’s child rape.

January 5, 2015

(not satire – it’s the UK press!) I have absolutely no idea about the veracity or not of the claims connecting …

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Did you know that 80% of rural Britain is AGAINST fox hunting?

December 27, 2014

(not satire) We’re constantly told the debate about hunting is a matter of rural opinion vs urban opinion. Well not …

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Sister of ‘let-them-eat-porridge’ Tory peer got £49,500 in taxpayers’ money for rent

December 12, 2014

Tory peer Baroness Jenkin recently told poor people to eat porridge instead of using food banks. Jenkin’s husband is Tory MP Bernard Jenkin – who in 2009 …

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Tory MP calls anyone earning less than £150,000 “dog-end” voters

December 2, 2014

(not satire – it’s the Tories!) Let’s hope – for Tory MP Mark Garnier’s sake – that his constituency of Wyre …

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EXCLUSIVE – Andrew Mitchell’s previously unreleased court statement on plebgate:

November 27, 2014

(satire?) EXCLUSIVE to Pride’s Purge: Andrew Mitchell’s court statement at the plebgate libel trial which the trial judge described as …

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I have a dream: that white van man and black cab man can live together in harmony

November 26, 2014

(satire?) Some politicians blame white van man – some are attacking black cab man. But I have a dream that one day …

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Prince of Wales: people’s connection with Prince Charles is dying

November 12, 2014

(satire?) The Prince of Wales has warned that the majority of people have “lost any real connection with Prince Charles” …

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The return of Dickensian Britain: 90,000 children to face Christmas without a home

November 4, 2014

(not satire – it’s the UK today!) The number of homeless families has almost doubled during the last 3 years of …

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UK government shuts down free speech with threats of jail (tabloid newspapers exempted)

October 19, 2014

(not satire – it’s the UK today!) When government ministers or members of the establishment talk about free speech, they …

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Oops! Cameron accidentally says Tories RESENT children from the poorest homes

October 1, 2014

(not satire – it’s the Tories!) Presumably David Cameron didn’t mean to say this in his speech today: “This party …

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Tory conference delegate celebrates austerity by tweeting bottle of Bollinger

September 30, 2014

(not satire – it’s the Tories!) At their party conference this week, the Tories have announced the need for yet more radical …

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Cameron handing billions of our money over to firm run by fellow Old Etonian

September 9, 2014

(not satire -it’s the UK today) The amount of taxpayers’ money which the UK government has handed over to private …

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Buckingham Palace: Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge have had a shag

September 8, 2014

(satire?) Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge have been successfully on the job lately, a statement from Buckingham Palace said on Monday …

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Nick Clegg must be axed says Nick Clegg in dramatic Lib Dem U-turn

July 17, 2014

(satire?) In a bid to claw back lost votes before next year’s general election, Nick Clegg will set himself on a …

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Telegraph columnist Toby Young reckons he was accepted into Oxford ‘by mistake’.

July 16, 2014

(not satire – it’s Toby Young!) Rabid Tory supporter, Free School advocate and Telegraph columnist Toby Young likes to boast about how he …

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New Ed Sec voted to end help for poor kids to get to college and buy books

July 15, 2014

(not satire – it’s the Tories!)   Way back in 2011 – before she thought she would ever be Education Secretary …

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The 5 Old Etonians in Cameron’s inner circle all untouched by reshuffle

July 14, 2014

(not satire – it’s the Tories!) According to Tory backbench MP Pauline Latham – of the six people that make up Cameron’s …

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8 powerful reasons why Butler-Sloss cannot head the VIP child abuse inquiry

July 11, 2014

(not satire) Here are 8 extremely compelling reasons why Baroness Butler-Sloss should stand down as head of the inquiry into allegations of child …

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HALT! the most effective homeless repellent spray on the market. Details here:

June 9, 2014

(satire?)     More anti-pleb and homeless deterrent products here: Anti-Pauper Roosting Spikes Anti-pauper roosting spikes are considered to be the …

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The country mansion home the Newark Tory candidate doesn’t want you to see:

June 2, 2014

(not satire – it’s the Tories!) The Tory candidate for the Newark by-election Robert Jenrick describes himself as “the son of …

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