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Archive for April, 2009

NHS introduces seating charges for visitors

Have you paid and displayed?After the success of NHS hospitals charging patients and visitors for the use of their first-rate car parking facilities, Health Secretary Alan Johnson has unveiled exciting new plans to introduce fees for using seats in hospital waiting areas.

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Posted: Apr 24th, 2009
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Agency hiring out ‘stupid people’ for smart dinner party circuit

idiots can be hired by the hourAn Islington company that hires out fools for social occasions is thriving despite the recession, according to the company’s PR spokesman. ‘Fool Hire Ltd supplies clients with a stupid person to attend their gatherings as a working guest,’ explained Magnus Catchpole. ‘The client can choose from a simple idiot to top-of-the range loudmouth cretin and we charge by the hour with weekends rather more expensive.’

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Posted: Apr 24th, 2009
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Ex-MP who quit Labour over smears ‘was cannibal’, says party

Just coincidence that Rwandan genocide occurred during her life?Alice Mahon, the former Labour MP who recently resigned from the party in protest against the culture of smear attacks, has been exposed by colleagues as a flesh-eating, sex-crazed monster.

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Posted: Apr 23rd, 2009
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Women’s Institute opens first Al-Qaeda cell

'It takes all sorts'The group will provide a friendly and supportive environment for female jihadis while catering for both traditional and modern tastes in subjects such as home-baked explosives and Islamist poetry.

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Posted: Apr 23rd, 2009
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British Government to be outsourced to Tesco

House of Commons to become Tesco MetroHouse of Commons to be converted to a Tesco Metro.

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Posted: Apr 23rd, 2009
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