Posts Tagged ‘corruption’

Major, major scoop! Ever wondered what exactly happens to your council tax, after it has left your bank account and entered the coffers of your local authority? Well one of our sources has managed to totally thieve get hold of a very important document from the Haringey Council – their 2010 budget plans. It is with great joy that we share this with you behind the cut:

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Derren Brown is flummoxed

Swords are being sharpened and black masks donned as Bulgarian police prepare an investigation into the country’s lottery draw. Allegations of fraud have been flung about since last Saturday, when the 6 numbers drawn were the same as those drawn the previous week.

Eighteen people shared the win — nobody won the first time — each receiving the princely sum of 10,164 leva (4,633 GB pounds, or 10,753 NZ dollars*).

It doesn’t seem a fitting amount of moolah for what surely is the biggest, slickest, awe-inspiring lottery shakedown of all time. Even that hack Derren Brown couldn’t achieve something close to it.

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Zimbabwe: a crippled economy just got worse

We spend a lot of time complaining about money. As a Welshman living in London, I still haven’t worked out the exchange rate between bales of wool and pounds sterling, which means that I continually overspend every month. Payday invokes warm little feelings down below for me, which is why my girlfriend refuses to talk to me on the first of the month.

Of course, rent, bills and the Xbox soon suck the newfound euphoria back out of my loins. But, for that two days a month I can be called solvent, I am happy.

So imagine what it would be like if your employer turned round and refused to pay you in real money.

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