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Lily-livered Brexiters too timid and too scared to stand up to their own leaders’ lies

September 2, 2016

I’ve already said Remainers should get their balls back, but now it’s time for Brexiters to do the same. As we all know, …

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The Brexit vote wasn’t democracy in action. It was populist manipulation on a grand scale.

August 3, 2016

No-one else seems to be saying this, so I will. Way back in 1988 – when the Thatcher government passed the …

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Jo Cox MP’s last published words on immigration and Brexit written just days before her murder

June 19, 2016

Brexit is not the answer to UK immigration concerns by Jo Cox MP With many voters still making up their …

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The link between Nigel Farage and Jo Cox’s neo-nazi killer

June 17, 2016

Jo Cox’s neo-nazi terrorist killer Thomas Mair was one of the original members of an infamous far-right organisation called the Springbok …

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Could this be the best Vote Remain argument in the EU referendum campaign yet?

June 15, 2016

Posted on Facebook: Quick. Sack the politicians and put this man in charge of the Remain Campaign now. . Actually, realising …

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The Great EU Debate: Boris Johnson vs Boris Johnson

May 28, 2016

Here it is – the great EU referendum debate featuring two of the finest debaters on opposite sides of the …

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Brexit campaign appoints tinfoil hat climate change denier who wants to scrap NHS as director

March 19, 2016

The two main Brexit campaigns seem to have a talent for attracting some extremely dodgy people. Now the Grassroots Out campaign …

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That awkward moment when Boris Johnson campaigned for Turkey to join the EU

February 22, 2016

In the past, Boris Johnson was one of the few people in the country to enthusiastically argue for Turkey to become a …

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Tory Party breaks out in open civil war within hours of Cameron announcing deal

February 20, 2016

There are so many Tory Party members openly arguing on various media about Cameron’s EU deal, it’s impossible to show all of it. Here are …

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Yet more dodgy people supporting Brexit: now it’s a tax-dodging fat cat hedge fund

February 15, 2016

Last week it was the utterly odious Philip Davies MP along with right-wing nutcakes the Freedom Association supporting Brexit … … …

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“Decent German people” – Daily Mail on far-right group led by Hitler impersonator

January 22, 2015

(not satire – it’s the Daily Mail!) The leader of Pegida – a rising German far-right group – likes to dress up …

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No Mr Farage – 80% of Brits do NOT want Britain out of the EU

January 21, 2015

(not satire – it’s Nigel Farage!) Nigel Farage reckons 80% of the British public want to leave the EU: . …

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Cameron authorises air strikes against France after deadly attacks by French terrorists

January 9, 2015

(satire?) David Cameron is preparing the ground for the carpet bombing of parts of France where suspected Islamic militants are thought …

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EU leaders agree to cut hot air and gas emissions from MEPs by 40%

October 24, 2014

(satire?) European leaders have struck a deal obliging the EU as a whole to cut gas emissions from MEPs by at …

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This is the UK today. Be afraid.

October 4, 2014

(not satire) Just a few years ago, newspaper headlines like these would have been spoofs, making fun of the UK …

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Tories pledge to pull out of human race after election

October 3, 2014

(satire?) The Conservative Party has threatened to pull out of what it called ‘the restraints’ of being a member of the human …

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UK regions rank lowest in poverty compared to our closest neighbours

August 25, 2014

(not satire – it’s the UK today) Did you know that 9 out of 10 of the poorest areas in …

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UKIP ally: “battered women should stop whining”

July 17, 2014

(not satire – it’s the UKIP!) An MP from the Swedish Democrats – one of UKIP’s key allies in the European …

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Voters set to reject EU as shocking new figures reveal Europe is full of foreigners

May 26, 2014

(satire?) Voters across the width and breadth of Europe are set to reject the European Union after they discovered most of …

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UKIP vows to secure herbaceous borders from Brussels after local election successes

May 23, 2014

(satire?) After the party’s stunning successes in the local elections, the United Kingdom Independence Party has vowed to forcibly take back control …

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Could this be the worst party political broadcast ever?

May 12, 2014

(not satire – it’s the English Democrats!) This party political broadcast by the English Democrats is so bad I had …

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Nick Clegg issues new warning to sceptics over withdrawal from Eurovision

May 10, 2014

(satire?) Nick Clegg has fired a fresh warning today to Tory Eurovision sceptics who are demanding an in-or-out referendum on Britain’s membership of …

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Government plans to deter immigration to UK by making it shit (not actually satire!)

May 6, 2014

(not satire – or is it?) Over a year ago I wrote what was supposed to be a satirical blogpost: …

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Nigel Farage was thrown out of a pub in Bath today:

April 29, 2014

(not satire – it’s the UKIP!) Nigel Farage and his UKIP entourage have been thrown out of a pub in …

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What have UKIP got against live-in lodgers? Or snowboarders?

April 2, 2014

(not satire – it’s the UKIP!) Near the end of the Farage/Clegg debate tonight, the official UKIP Twitter account tweeted …

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Shock as figures reveal big increase in net migration of German leaders to UK

February 28, 2014

(satire?) Net UK migration of German Chancellors to the UK increased by 100% in the year to February 2014, pushing …

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Etymological maps of common words like ‘clegg’, ‘cameron’ and ‘duncan smith’

November 16, 2013

(satire?) 1) ‘cameron‘ 2) ‘clegg‘ 3) ‘duncan smith‘ . Please feel free to comment. .

‘Go home’ vans deemed failure after only one UKIP voter agrees to go back to voting Tory

October 22, 2013

(satire?) Theresa May yesterday admitted that the Home Office’s controversial “go home” vans had been “too much of a blunt instrument”, …

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Daily Mail – “aggressive foreign cows from Europe lead to death of man”. Satire?

September 11, 2013

(it’s not satire – it’s the Daily Mail!) I must have been wrong about the Daily Mail. They clearly have …

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Jamie Oliver on UKIP – anything so full of nuts has got to be good

May 14, 2013

(satire – possibly) After publicly endorsing UKIP, TV celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has denied accusations he is ignorant of politics saying …

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