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MPs urged to join Unison to fight meagre £1000 pay rise

MPs were today urged to join Unison after learning that a year in which they stole, lied, and performed with world-class incompetence has led to a meagre pay rise of just £1,000.

We could tell you, but then we’d have to kill you, say MOD

The Ministry of Defence has been accused of giving “misleading” answers to MPs scrutinising its budget after it told the committee that it could tell them where the money went, but then it would have to kill them.

I’ll happily pay tax just as soon as I get my own way on everything, insists Lord Ashcroft

Conservative donor and deputy party chairman Lord Ashcroft has admitted he does not pay UK tax on his earnings, but would happily do so, just as soon as the nation votes in a Government which will do everything that he says.

Latest opinion polls show drop in support for opinion polls

The latest series of opinion polls released today show a significant fall in the popularity of opinion polls, with support for opinion polls down 7% on a series of opinion polls taken just minutes earlier.

Faith schools to teach how sex is much better when you involve God

Ministers are accused of caving into religious organisations and allowing faith schools to teach sex education however they like, including an explanation of how sex is really much better if you involve God.

Bogwashing ‘absolutely rife’ at Number 10, claims Downing Street insider

A former office worker at Number 10 Downing Street has revealed the full extent of the bullying that took place during his time there, including his own regular ‘bogwashes’ at the hands of the Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Shock as prices rise shortly after Government puts up prices

The UK inflation rate rose to 3.5% in January, the fastest rise in 14 months, shortly after the Government raised the price of everything by putting VAT back up to 17.5%

Government to seek out more reliable secret torture locations

The foreign secretary has lost an Appeal Court bid to stop the disclosure of secret information relating to the torture of a UK resident, forcing an expansion of the search for torture locations hidden by a sufficient level of secrecy.

How does a pound a week sound, ask expense repaying MPs

Sir Thomas Legg is set to recommend that over half of all MPs should repay a portion of their expenses, with most asking how a repayment of a pound a week sounds.

Iraq invasion was part of giant game of Risk, General tells inquiry

A top British general has told the Iraq inquiry how the 2003 invasion of Iraq was actually part of a gigantic game of Risk, the strategic board game in which players attempt to conquer the world using armies represented by plastic counters.

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