While many eggs claim to suffer from mobility issues, the Department for Works & Pensions have said that they are eligible for work as an omelette or ironically stacking egg-cartons in Tescos. Explained one Minister: ‘Battery chickens have long avoided the bedroom tax by cramming into the one warehouse. There can be no more free-rides for those claiming to be free-range. The welfare state is a safety-net but not a basket in which we can keep all our eggs’.
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