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I agree with everything that IDS is going [sic], if you can work you should work. Why should I pay your bills ?

NUMBER CRUNCHING

£100,000 Housing benefit received by largest benefit-claiming families, described by Iain Duncan Smith as 'madness for tax payers'

£34, 000, 000 Amount Department for Work and Pensions has written off on useless IT systems for Iain Duncan Smith's Universal Credit programme
 

John Marwood

I ♥ cryptic crosswords
TV Highlights

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BBC1, Sunday, 9.00pm

Sherlock

Holmes and Watson face their most baffling modern day mystery to date, when they are drafted in to decipher exactly how Mr. David Kelly really died.

"No fingerprints on the knife, Watson, and no gloves found on the body.”

“But what does that mean Sherlock?”

“It means Lord Hutton has classified all the records for the next 70 years.”


Eye rating – Hats off to the men from 221b (Norman) Baker Street!

http://insecam.com/cam/view/128823/4/
 

Gramaisc

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Has anybody else read From The Message Boards in the current issue, No 1386?

I normally get a sense of déjà vu when reading it, but this one is probably a copyright contravention...
 

Maryland

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Has anybody else read From The Message Boards in the current issue, No 1386?

I normally get a sense of déjà vu when reading it, but this one is probably a copyright contravention...
Uncanny.
Best not to consider who's who.
But if those traffic lights aren't reprogrammed I swear I'll do time.
 

Withnail

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Benefits cuts ‘will involve cuts to benefits’ shock

By Our Political Correspondent
Noah Surprise

THERE was widespread shock across Britain today that the £12bn welfare cuts promised in the Tory election manifesto would turn out to be £12bn of cuts to the welfare budget.

“We definitely didn’t think these £12 billion worth of cuts would involve people like us,” said one first time Tory voter having her child tax credits halved. “We thought it would only affect those wretched people on those awful benefits shows on Channel 4.”

“We feel utterly betrayed by the Tories,” said another father who is having his working family tax credits slashed.

“Why didn’t Osbourne mention these £12 billion worth of cuts would affect me. I naturally assumed it would hit people in the north, guests on the Jeremy Kyle show and Muslims. That’s why i voted Tory.”

George Osbourne insisted he’d worked hard to ensure that the cuts to benefits were spread evenly between those people most likely to vote Labour and those most likely to vote Lib Dem.
 
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