Posts Tagged ‘government’

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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Screw you guys we're off to Sydney

In The Time Traveller’s Wife, the protagonist keeps losing children as they teleport in and out of her womb before she can carry them to term.

Her strict Catholic upbringing prohibits her from taking steps to minimise the damage done by repeated miscarriages. In the meantime, the time traveller, Henry, makes no effort to save her as he is repeatedly confounded in even the most innocuous fate-altering experiments.

The Australian state of Victoria has set itself apart from the free world and is intending to send all its citizens into the past in its decision to allow religious groups to discriminate based on sexual orientation or family situation.

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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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