There has been widespread public dismay at the news that the Labour leadership contest still has 12 years left to run. The contest, which will select the person who party members deem will stand the best chance of losing general elections, started a number of decades ago, well before some of the candidates were born.…
Live music can no longer be played in public without it being called a music festival, researchers have found. The research, published by academics from a university somewhere in the British Isles, found that even a man playing a flute badly in a town centre results in people setting up stalls selling pints of overpriced,…
Supporters of left-wing Labour leadership hopeful Jeremy Corbyn have asked Tony Blair if they can have heart transplants done privately. It comes after the former Prime Minister said that Labour supporters planning on voting for Corbyn were being led by the heart and needed a transplant. Corbyn supporter Dave Ramsbottom from Manchester said, “Given Tony…
Tony Blair has waded into the Labour leadership debate by claiming that Leon Trotsky told him that he thinks Jeremy Corbyn is a dangerous left-wing radical. Speaking at some event or other in London, the former Labour Prime Minister said, “It isn’t just me that thinks Jeremy Corbyn is a dangerous left-wing ideologue hell-bent on…
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Commuters in the North of England are to be given second hand peddle go-karts under a scheme designed by the government to stop hard pressed commuters moaning about how bad the trains in the North are. Whilst the majority of people in the North are too lazy to work, a substantial…
Glaswegians have politely invited the Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, to come up to Scotland and re-enact the double fist pump celebration he displayed during last week’s budget. Duncan Smith has spent the last five years on a one man crusade to make the lives of people living in poverty even shitter. The…
Hunting Tories is already legal north of the border and an amendment being tabled by the SNP aims to bring the law in England and Wales in line with Scotland. The Scottish National Party are to table an amendment in Parliament calling for hunting Tories to be made legal in England and Wales. The move…
Harriet Harman, the interim Labour Party leader, labelled George Osborne as ‘weak’ and ‘a big softie’ today, saying his cuts to tax credits and other benefits won’t do enough damage to people’s lives. The move follows up her announcement on Sunday that the Labour Party intends to back the Chancellor’s decision to cut child tax…
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