making no difference at all since 2012
The once mighty quid is now worth less than a third of a ‘foam shrimp’
Sterling has plummeted to new depths this week, and £1 will no longer be sufficient currency to exchange for a single cheap sweet from the pick’n’mix counter.
Sterling flatlined on Monday morning after Theresa May failed to quieten Brexit nerves in a Sky interview on Sunday.
May was visibly drunk, and at times verbally abusive to interviewer Sophy Ridge, but insisted through teary-eyed despair that
The future’s bright, the future’s Brexit
Brexiteers have scoffed at the £50bn bill the UK could receive for leaving the EU, pointing out that the first cash harvest from all the new money trees will easily outweigh this figure.
Michel Barnier, the EU negotiator, has warned the bill will arrive as soon as Article 50 is triggered, but anti-EU campaigners have insisted it’s ‘no big deal’.
Brexiter Wendy Nailinthehead said “£50 bn? Peanuts. We could afford
We never really thought we’d actually miss him, but…
Philip Hammond’s first budget statement raised consternation today, after he was forced to admit that there didn’t seem to be a lot of money about.
The new chancellor addressed the House, saying “Mr Speaker, um, I’m not sure whether this will go down very well, but here goes anyway.
“Look, I really hope no one’s going to give me a ribbing over this, but it seems
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As voters go to the polls, TMB asks two average members of the public on opposite sides of the debate to give their considered opinions on the definitely entirely valuable referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union.
On the side of Leave is ordinary guy, Guy Ordinary:
“Look, I’m not racist or anything, but every single problem that this country is facing is entirely down to bloody immigrants.
“But that’s not why I’m voting Leave – not the only reason anyway. The main reason – the other main reason – is, right, do you have any idea what we pay to the EU every year? No, neither do I,
“It’s quite simple: if I take your money away, then the country is richer, which means you are better off”
George Osborne has defended yet further planned cuts to public spending, insisting that “£4bn is a tiny amount. That’s less than I spend a year on crisps. Seriously, I could shit more than that.”
The extra cuts will be announced in the chancellor’s 8th budget this Wednesday, and will be, says the chancellor “so insignificant that anyone who complains is obviously just a moany bum-sniffer.”
Happily, Selfless Bankers Care
Celebrations spontaneously broke out in the streets today, after HSBC told Britain that it had decided the country had learned its lesson, and so the self-styled gentle giant wouldn’t be leaving after all.
Percy Spoke, spokesperson for HSBC, said “As you all know, we very, very seriously thought about moving our headquarters out of the UK after you all stamped your little feet and demanded we be somehow ‘regulated’.
“But – selflessly – we have decided to stay and carry on looking after you. To that end you can
Brrrrm brrrrrm goes fast; make all little boys excited
The full line-up of Top Gear presenters has finally been revealed, and TMB brings you the lowdown on all of them:
John Maynard Keynes: Keynes is a huge fan of governmental intervention within the economy, steerage of which can be best achieved through public expenditure or fiscal policies. He will be mostly based in the studio.
Milton Friedman: by contrast Milton Friedman is the main advocate of monetarism, and preferred deregulation and adherence to the quantitative theory of the money supply. As such he is the chalk to Keynes’ cheese; expect lots of
Presumably the chancellor’s catchphrase about finishing the job doesn’t apply in any concrete way
George Osborne has been criticised after doing a very half-assed bit of bricklaying which was caught by BBC cameras.
Journalists had tracked down the chancellor on a building site, where he spoke about the Spending Review and the economy, whilst working on a wall.
But to the nation’s surprise, after making his statement the chancellor downed his trowel, took off his helmet and hi-vis jacket, and
Jesus wept, what a useless bag of smeg
After being caught out using made-up claimants for a benefits sanctions information leaflet, the Department for Work and Pensions has this morning admitted that the vast majority of the benefits bill is actually being sunk in to non-existent claimants invented by the marketing department.
The DWP secretary Iain Duncan Smith said “I do have to admit this does sort of seem to go against the narrative of ‘benefits cheats bankrupting the country’ that I have spent the last five years banging on about.
He might be a bit stubborn, but to be fair he was elected as the leader of Greece; you know, to lead Greece…
As talks over the Greek financial crisis enter their 17th year, the feared departure of Greece from the Euro has been renamed, to reflect the fact that most people now expect the debate to go on interminably.
The chief cause of the neverending dispute appears to lie in the worsening relationship between Greece and her German-led creditors.
Hans Onmycok, Advisor on Financial Wrangles to Angela Merkel, said “Greece needs to know that it is absolutely not OK to have a government that acts according to the democratic will of its people alone. It should be obvious to
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