Surreal Scoop

Reform UK has launched it's new Britannia card which will cost the hard pressed taxpayer a mere £34bn a year  but ensure that 10% of the lowest paid workers will receive an extra £25 per year. The scheme, which a foreign billionaire can join with a simple one-off lifetime payment of £250,000 will mean that they no longer have to worry about paying tax in the UK.  However the natives will have to make up the tax take gap - calculated at being about £34bn or about £9,000 per tax payer. "It's a great deal for foreign billionaires, they get to save millions, a great deal for British low-earners who get £25!" exclaimed Farage from his box at Ascot. "That's 10 Euromillions lottery tickets.  Wait, not the Euro one. Don't buy that one." When pressed as who he thought would be the perfect candidate for the ticket, The Member of Parliament for Florida indicated one particular category of non-domiciled oligarch. "Well, I think if you are just about to ente...

Can the international community stand idly by as a once free nation descends into authoritarian oppression?  That is the question being asked in capital cities around the world. The patterns are clear. The current regime in Washington D.C. is a theocratic institution seen as largely a façade for the evangelical Christian movement who have anointed their leader, President Donald Trump as a demi-god. During his first term Trump encouraged insurrectionists to march on the Capitol building.  The mob armed with a gallows stormed the building to disrupt what had up until that point been the traditionally peaceful transition of power.  A mob whose members were, upon Trump’s returning to power in his second term, pardoned of their treasonous behaviour. Trump has turned his aggression to both internal and international foes.  He has conducted negotiations with Iran knowing full well that Israel was planning to attack during them and then joined in himself with a bombing...

Speaking from his grave, the late Donald Rumsfeld solemnly marked the 8,130 th day since the beginning of the narrow and limited action to remove Weapons of Mass Destruction from Iraq. “We said all along that Iraq should not have a nuclear weapon since that would destabilise the region,” said the former Secretary of Defense.   “That was very much a known, known.” As tensions once again lead to military action in the region figures from beyond the grave, or indeed the fiery pits in which they are currently residing, are surfacing to commemorate the successful way in which air strikes have always ended all such conflicts exactly on the neat, telegenic political terms that they are ordered on. “The initial spectacular military success proved decisive two decades ago.   We barely had to deploy a tiny force of only about half-a-million soldiers,” he said. “It led to a mere few hundred thousands of people killed, millions injured and displaced.” Rumsfeld went on to emphas...