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Civil servant vanity photographer, Andy Parsons, was sacked and immediately rehired by Tory central office. He was joined by civil servant film maker Nicky Woodhouse. This is a humiliation for the prime minister. A degrading admission that he got it wrong ? despite the advice of civil servants responsible for propriety and ethics in government.


In what appears to be a hurried statement, Ken Clarke announced to the House of Commons that he had reached an out of court settlement to pay the Guantamano Bay prisoners a secret amount of compensation running into millions of pounds. On a normal news cycle, journalists would be demanding to know how much and whether the prisoners received more than the 7/7 survivors were given in compensation.


The governor of the bank of England formally wrote to the government that it is a ?concern that inflation is above target?. Which will be exacerbated next month when VAT is increased and petrol prices rise as a result. Ordinarily, white van men would be interviewed on petrol station forecourts up and down the land. Not yesterday.


And then Greater Manchester police announced that comprehensive spending review cuts would result in 1,387 uniformed police posts being axed, sending shockwaves around other police services in the country. Actually, this figure is so shocking that I suspect reaction to it will be reported for days and weeks to come in the north west. But it won?t be leading the front pages nationally. That would have been today.


Then there was the Redfern report ? the one that tells the full scale of the nuclear industry?s old habit of secretly harvesting the body parts of nuclear workers without informing their loved ones. Imagine how on a normal news day this announcement would play out. Nuclear workers? body parts systematically and secretly harvested for forty years? Even the Daily Mail might raise its eyebrows at that. On any other day.



Cynical, moi?

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Man - you are such a square. The wedding is like, sooooo much more happening


That's why I like reading the metro every morning - it doesn't hassle me with news yeah? and it's free. Why would anyone pay ?1 to read lot's of boring words about boring things that depress me? I just like stuff I know nothing about just happening to me? and then I can just give out about it? I hate reading about boring stuff but I love complaining and getting angry. And getting pissed. And royal weddings. And getting things for free


(ps I am aware that teh "broadsheets" are going OTT with wedding coverage as well - but the other bits are there too)

Upper class political filth thinks that it is appropriate to employ staff dedicated to his own vanity at the tax payer?s expense while rolling out policy to further impoverish the most vulnerable in society and gleefully destroying millions of lives.


Big fucking surprise.


Government pays off the victims of torture to cover their own war mongering backs.


Big fucking surprise.


Government of hereditary millionaires ignores warnings of the pressure it is putting on businesses and individuals.


Big fucking surprise.


Police force decimated by a government who will all be able to afford gated communities with private security once they have created the country they dream of.


Big fucking surprise.


Old boys network complicit in covering up the harvesting of human organs for nuclear research.


Big fucking surprise.


The public choose to celebrate their festering, collective, contemptibility by burying their snouts in a spectacle put on at their own expense by a parasitic, mediaeval monarchy.





ps. Other opinions are available but are probably wrong.

Quite but I have recently become the founding member of the Royal Society of Middleclass Communist so I have to convey a view of the monarchy which is in keeping with our Royal Charter.


As a disregard for the institution of royalty is a basic tenet of our foundation it was fundamental that the charter which brought us into existence was Royal and, if it is ever committed to paper, drawn up on the back of a fag pack by yours truly.

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