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Justin Bieber’s X Box Avatar Is A Small Black Girl In A Plaid Skirt
JUSTIN Bieber has met with Jon Ronson in San José, California. The highlights of that interview are:
The Inner Girl:
Bieber’s Xbox Avatar is a “small black girl wearing a plaid skirt”
His favourite YouTube videos:
Bieber: “There’s a video called Arab Screaming that’s really funny. It’s an Arabian guy who starts screaming. It’s just hilarious. You should see it. Go.”
Does he read online comments?
“‘You’re so stupid’, ‘Your song sucks’, I even get, ‘You’re gay’ for no apparent reason. What’s the point of that? But then I remember there’s so many people who like my videos who don’t even comment. When I like a video I don’t waste my time commenting. But people who hate you – they’re going to take time to hate you.”
Fame:
Ronson: “Do you ever feel wistful for the days before you were famous?” I ask.
Bieber: “I’m living my dream and I’m just enjoying every minute of it.”
The Hip Square:
Bieber: “I can do a Rubik’s Cube in a minute and a half,” he says.
“Whatever state it’s in?” I ask.
“Yeah.”
“Are you a genius?” I ask.
“I wouldn’t say a genius, but I can do a Rubik’s Cube. And sudoku puzzles.”
The Rebel:
Bieber: “Singers aren’t supposed to eat dairy before a show but we all know I’m a rule breaker.”
The Heebie Bieber
He recites the first line of the Shema – the Jewish morning and evening prayer – getting it syllable perfect: “Shema Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai ‘Ehad.” He pauses. “Christianity was based off of Jesus being a Jew,” he says.
Special
Bieber: “I…” Justin says. “I have a small case of ADD.”
Ronson: “How does it manifest itself?” I ask.
Bieber: “If I don’t understand something, and I’m bored, I don’t pay attention, so my teacher has to really make it fun for me. Every hour he has to give me a five-to 10-minute break. But after the break I’ll be back into it. I’ll be good.”
Ronson: “Have you actually been diagnosed with ADD?”
Bieber: “No. It’s self-claimed.”
The Bieber Descends:
“The huge steel-framed hot air balloon basket is designed to fly me out over the crowd, dipping not quite low enough for them to touch, but close enough for me to see all those beautiful faces.”
Love In The Time Of Bieber
Ronson: “How will you ever find a girlfriend who won’t just spend the whole time thinking, ‘It’s Justin fucking Bieber’?”
Bieber: “That’s what’s hard about this. There are so many girls who would just do anything for me because of my status. Someone told me it’s great to be with somebody who has just as much to lose as you do.”
Well, Yes:
Nearby, there’s a larger-than-life-size cardboard cutout of Justin. The real Justin wanders over to it. “Who are you looking at, buddy?” he mutters. He punches it in the face.
Quite.
Posted: 13th, November 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
How The X Factor And Sony BMG Fixed It For Katie Waissel, aka Katie Vogel
THE X FACTOR is returned to our TV screens and thus to the newspapers’ front page. And there is a story linking Katie Waissel to Simon Cowell and Sony BMG. You see, Katie is no enthusiastic amateur fluffing her lines and begging for one more chance to live her “dream”.
Had she just got her song right first time over, Katie would have been less memorable. But she ‘fluffled’ it, and having begged for another chance, Cowell gave her “20 seconds”. That make-or-break time limit was extended when Katie started singing.
As such, Katie ended up on stage and on camera longer than most. Why? Is it because she is in with the management at Sony BMG, where Simon Cowell also works?
The 24-year-old from from Harewood, Hertfordshire, who looks like Kelly Osbourne channelling Vanessa Feltz, is also known as Lola Fontaine, singer of a jazz album and owner of a record deal in the US. But that’s not all.
You might know her as of Katie Vogel, star of a reality TV show, sponsored by Coca Cola and watchable online. Here’s the trailer:
Green Eyed World follows the life adventure of Katie Vogel, a talented girl with a green guitar, killer tunes and big dreams. Each week, the new episode is your backstage pass into the music business as Katie travels through different cities and countries in search of fun, freedom, fans and friends.
But that is not all.
Katie has a sympathetic backs story. When she was 10 her grandpa died. And she was bullied:
Back to my teenage years, i was bullied terribly at the same time as my family were going through a major crisis (Very long story for a rainy day!)
She’s also on nodding terms with Chaz Jankel, of Ian Duty and Blockheads repute. And she opened the bill at East 17’s comeback show at The Shepherds Bush Empire.
Oh, and at a party in LA she met “DAVID MASSEY VP OF SONY BMG!”. Yeah, that’s the same Sony that Simon Cowell works for.
I went to Dave Massey’s office a couple days later and spent the entire day there! We went through all my music, we jammed on the guitar, he introduced me to his team! And at the end of the day, he told me he wanted me to come back out and perform at a venue in NYC for him and Sony.
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Posted: 13th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comments (54)
4Chan Identifies Racist Mail Man Attacker As Erika F. Winchester (Video)
CAN 4Chan hunt down the woman calling this US postal delivery worker a “nigger” and a “thief”? 4Chan alleges she is Erika F. Winchester, of Hingham, MA.
UPDATE: She’s a citizen cop.
They got Mary Bale. They claim the mailman is one Reginald Cedric Greggs. But, again, no proof is offered.
Is this another piece of fine investigative work for the site?
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Erica Winchester is brings fifteen years of teaching and coaching experience to her clients… she helps companies and individuals to deliver their message more effectively and to make their point.
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Posted: 12th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (5)
Google Sets Fire To US Flag On Veterans Day And Insults Muslims
IS Google in the thrall of a powerful – yet subtle – Muslim force that governs our minds? The Veterans’ Day Google icon shows a red crescent peeking out from beneath the US flag. (Is the flag on fire?)
It’s the bottom of the obscured letter ‘e’. But it looks a bit like the foot of a red crescent. And who loves the crescent? Yeah, those Muslims do (and the boy at the start of the Dreamworks films who fishes from a crescent moon. And -yes! – Dreamworks is run by Jews. The conspiracy deepens and deepens…)
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Posted: 12th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comment (1)
Zlata Is Rubber Girl: Photos To Make You Wince
ZLATA is the best thing to come out of Russia and into Germany since… Well, ever. Zlata is Rubber Girl, the bendy 24-year-old who can fioled herself into 20 inches squared box. She is 5ft 9!
Forget trying it at home – Zlata is flexible because “a rare condition that makes all her tendons extremely pliable”.
Zlata is often in more fleshy photos – and what follows is NSFW.
Spotter and photos via: AnimalNewYork (no copyright attributed; if they are yours please get in touch and we will remove them)
Posted: 11th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Man City’s Carlos Tevez Wears Man United Rio Ferdinand As A Hand Puppet: Photos
MANCHESTER City versus Manchester United produced a dull 0-0 draw in the Premier League. But the game conjured up a photo that will linger long in the memory and Manchester folklore: Carlos Tevez appeared to be trying to wear Rio Ferdinand as a glove puppet…
Flick through the images quickly for an animated result:
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Posted: 11th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (4)
How Media Hijacked The Student Violence To Mute The Message: Photos
MEET Luke Cooper. He’s 26. The London Standard says he’s a University of Sussex academic who was a “ring leader” of a plot to occupy Millbank Tower and the Tory headquarters. He is presented as the face of the minority who ruined a polite day out for the masses – and gave the media great photos. But the masses didn’t seem to mind the occupation. The chucking of stuff from a roof was not universally popular. But lots of people stayed to watch.
A statement from the National Campaign Against Fees And Cuts says:
We reject any attempt to characterise the Millbank protest as small, “extremist” or unrepresentative of our movement.
The About Us page on the NCAFC site ends:
OCCUPY! STRIKE! RESIST!
So. All the proactive students are in it together. But what of the plot to occupy buildings? Well, it was the plot the police were too blinkered and deaf to notice being hatched online. (See the slogan above.)
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Posted: 11th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (15)
Photos Of Student Protest And Riot At Millbank Tower: Were You There?
PHOTOS of the student protest and the Millbank occupation in London – and the ensuing violence. The news cameras love the blood, cracked heads and the smashed glass. A fire is lit. But this is no full-blown riot. But in close with the cameras and it looks bad, or good.
The photos are big and high resolution:
The protestors have smashed their way into Millbank Tower, near the London headquarters of the Conservative party. Yeah near. The Tories moved out after the election. They are now housed by the Pizza Express at number 30 Millbank. (Education, readers. Education.) Police are injured. But when you are in the building, then what?
Millbank Demo: The Police Fail Because They Have No Listening Mode And Never Learn
There are students on the roof. Some are smoking rolled-up cigarettes. Other are enjoying the view. Other are realising that they are now trapped and having dropped a metal fire extinguisher onto riot police they will to come down eventually to face their targets. Good luck with that.
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Posted: 11th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (14)
Lord Sugar Calls For 2 Minutes Silence For Remembrance Day On Twitter: Then Tweets Twice
LORD Alan Sugar asks for two minutes silence on Twitter for Remembrance Day. He then uses the silence to issues two tweets between 11:0 am and 11:02am.
10:59: “No tweeting for 2 mins.”
11:00: “Winner of comp of guessing when i will reach 125k followers @benrichie with guess 10:45 today, well done, will dm you how to get signed book.”
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Posted: 11th, November 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)
Millbank Demo: The Police Fail Because They Have No Listening Mode And Never Learn
THE police are complaining that they didn’t see the violence coming at the Millbank demo, writes Richard North. Yet students from a number of universities say they co-ordinated the Millbank raid via Facebook weeks ago. One 19-year-old student from Bournemouth University, said:
“This has been arranged for ages and I’m surprised the police didn’t do their homework.”
But it was exactly the same with the London rave a fortnight ago. That had been planned well ahead and had been all over the internet. But the police don’t get the internet, any more than do the politicians. They don’t understand it, and as a result don’t use it properly or effectively. Thus, we have an alternative system of communication to which these groups are completely oblivious.
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Posted: 11th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)
Tattoos: 1980s TV Stars
HERE’S a great gallery of tattoos featuring the likenesses of TV stars from the 1980s. Can you identify them all? One day someone will get tattoos of the current cop of telly stars: Cheryl Cole, Simon Cowell, a Jeremy Kyle tattoo on your arse. If you see someone with a modern TV tat, let us know…
Scarifying Tattoos – A Gallery Of The RevoltingThe Best And Worst Fan Tattoos Ever
Tattoos – Weird And Stupid Ones
Tattoos – Retro Ones
Tattoos – On Your Arse
Tattoos – Super Heroes
Tattoos On Faces – The Mughsots
Tattoos: The Misspelled Ones
Posted: 11th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Student Fees Protest In Photos: Osbourne And Osborn Attacked
“OSBOURNE FUCK OFF” declares the signs held aloft as students and teachers gathering in central London. It’s a big protest against the Government’s move to hike student fees to as much as £9,000 per year in fees from 2012. But here’s the thing: what the hell has Ozzy Osbourne got to do with the matter? George Osborne, on the other hands, is the Chancellor and he wants to mess with your educashun he can fuck right off.
Posted: 10th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (5)
I’m A Celebrity 2010 Line Up: Shaun Ryder To Eat Gillian McKeith
I’M A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! 2010. It’s a bumper crop of gonad munchers:
Nigel Havers – The Hugh Grant of his age. Fopped his way to glory in Chariots of Fire; son of former Lord Chancellor Baron Havers; never made it as a film star; most recently seen as a rent-a-shag in Coronation Street.
Chances of winning: 4 Gonads (of five)
Gail Porter – TV presenter famous for losing her hair to illness; shagging a minor pop star; having her naked arse broadcast onto the side of Houses of Parliament; talking about the above three things ever since.
3 Gonads
Shaun Ryder – Happy Monday’s singer. Who will Shaun eat first? And will they be raw?
4.5 Gonads
Britt Ekland – Actress and former Bond Girl famous for being well fit in her youth. Once married to Peter Sellers. Still blonde.
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Posted: 9th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Tabloids | Comments (5)
Gordon Ramsay’s Open Letter To His Mother In Law In Full: Deliciously Sour Stuff
GORDON Ramsay, the panicky botulism-faced TV chef, has written an open letter to his wife Tana Ramsay mother Greta Hutcheson not to sever links to his family.
Last month Ramsay sacked his father–in-law Chris from the family firm. Now Ramsay, vain to the last, writes a letter to his mother-in-law.
(No not his mum. He contacts her in public by phone – or not.)
Says he:
“This has to be one of the most painful letters I’ve ever had to write. Listening to Tana in floods of tears reading your letter… asking that she stays away from her family is so awfully wrong.”
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Posted: 9th, November 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (8)
Amanda Knox: Slander Trial Shames Italian Police
AMANDA Knox, the photogenic, blonde, American made-for-TV starlet who murdered Meredith Kercher with two male accomplices, is to stand trial for slander.
Knox says Italian police beat her during questioning. The Italian police have been the target of Knox’s supporters, who see the foreigners as the the enemy of justice.
Knox is serving 26 years for sexual assault and murder. Her former lover Raffaele Solecito is in jail for 25 years. Hermann Guede, from the Ivory Coast, is serving 16 years.
At the trial Knox testified on her police interrogation:
“One shouted, ‘You don’t remember?” then a policewoman behind me hit me across the back of the head. I turned towards her and she did it again. They were only decent with me when I made my statement. They wanted a name, but I couldn’t give them one.”
Says Knox:
“I didn’t mean to offend or slander anybody. I reiterate, I was only trying to defend myself. I was exercising a right.”
It’s all a bit odd, isn’t it? Isn’t lying what guilty people do when they want to protest their innocence. Knox says she was hit by police. Are the Italian police so thin-skinned that take offence at this? Well, yes. They got a result. The killer was charged and convicted. Move on.
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Posted: 9th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (3)
Obama Is An African: And Other Great Bootleg DVD Covers (Gallery)
BOOTLEG DVDs are only exceeded in kwality by their covers. Birthers will love “OBAMA: African In The White House”. What of Buffalo Soldiers, the review for which tells us: “Irritating and toothless.” There’s a Lord of Ring – Harry Potter mash-up, for when one huge film is not enough…
Posted: 9th, November 2010 | In: Film, Key Posts | Comment (1)
X Factor Fix: Proof That TreyC Cohen Was Robbed
THE country faced a new democratic crisis last night after it emerged that the X Factor is a scripted TV show that has no bearing on reality whatsoever.
The Sun declares on its front page that “IT’S A FIX”.
What?! The paper that pumps out PR-led drivel about 20th Century Fox films, Sky TV and average music being amay-zing under the auspices of Gordon Smart’s “Bizarre” column has realised that the media can corrupt and distort the viewing experience?!
Who to thank for the revelation? Why, no lesser person than TreyC Cohen’s dad. The man who spells ‘Tracey’ TreyC has seen through the lies, the manipulation and the cynical pursuit of cash.
The Daily Star, a bastion of honesty pauses from playing that Raoul Moat shoot ‘em up and buying tickets for the Chile mine theme park ride to yell:
CHERYL COLE FACING X FACTOR SACK – TV watchdog probes star’s judging ‘fix’
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Posted: 9th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comments (8)
Newcastle United Stars’ ‘Drug-Fueled Orgy’: Carroll And Nolan In Shocker Of A Story
NEWCASTLE United “bad boy” Andy Carroll is reported to have screamed “Ride me! Ride me!” as he had sexy times with a woman in Kevin Nolan’s bedroom.
Carroll is unmarried. He’s currently stopping over at Nolan’s house as part of bail conditions. He must remain at the Nolan home until 10 January – the date his case was adjourned until. (Carroll is accused of attacking his ex-girlfriend Laurie Henderson). Nolan is married to Hayley, with whom he has two children. So far, so unexceptional.
Dominic Herbert & Keith Gladdis go on:
And as the orgy went into full swing at Nolan’s luxury home, downstairs cocaine – used by the girls they had picked up on a crawl of Newcastle’s clubs – lay scattered across a table.
Orgy? One man shagging is an orgy?
Neither player is believed to have snorted the drug – but our revelations today take football to new depths of shame.
No they don’t.
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Posted: 6th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (5)
Bromley Nursery Used A Lure To Attract Paedophiles
THE cover of the Bromley News Shopper wonder if the proposed new nursery will attract “paedos”. It’s a big topic of debate among locals.
“WILL NURSERY ATTRACT PAEDOS”?
Or will it have to try harder?
The story runs:
ANGRY residents are campaigning against a house being turned into a nursery because they fear it will increase noise and traffic and could attract paedophiles.
Build the nursery and they will come. What says “mum-of-two” Natalie Rooney? She 37:
“We think there will be traffic problems because of all the parents dropping off and picking up their children.”
Traffic. Yep.
“We think there will be noise problems because the children will be playing outdoors.”
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Posted: 6th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (4)
Donna Hall: Rock Chick Or Fibber? Was Lancashire Council Boss Really In Chumbawamba?
THE boss of Wyre Council is Donna Hall. She is also the chief executive of Chorley Council. She was in Chumbawamba, who had a hit with Tubthumping and chucking water over John Prescott at the Brits.
Only, the agent for that band, one Chris Wade, says:
“Donna Hall has never been a member of the band. No-one from the band had ever heard of her, until all this erupted.”
Ah, now Ms Hall recalls:
“To be absolutely clear, it was 20 odd years ago and I did street theatre and I did perform with Chumbawumba but I was never in the band.”
So who was it on the BBC radio show in 2008 – two years ago – who under the headline ‘Donna Hall on her rock chick past’ said:
“I kind of dropped out for a couple of years and was in a band. I was actually in Chumbawumba. It’s a little known fact.”
Quite.
“I used to sing and play guitar, but it was a very long time ago so don’t ask me to sing any songs.”
As it say in the BBC:
Being told you are in the top 5 for anything must be great; being told you sit in the top 5 of the Country for most inspiring woman must be remarkable. Donna Hall was indeed voted the 5th top national executive in the country and the now Chief Executive of Chorley Council was once part of Chumbawamba! Chumbawhat you may say…
Here’s Donna:
Now she says:
“I’ve built my reputation on being a good chief exec and making Chorley a better place – not on being in a band. The rumour was started before I even came to Chorley and people still ask me about it all the time. I’m not embarrassed by it. It was a long time ago.”
Rumour, eh…
“This is nothing but an attempt to discredit me and my career and I’ve had enough of it. If people have a problem with anything I’ve said or done, I wish they would come and talk to me personally without all this surreptitious manoeuvring by a very small group of politicians.”
I get knocked down, but I get up again. You nay ever gonna keep me down…
Posted: 5th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (10)
Roshonara Choudhry: Revolution Muslim, South Park Censored And How To Commit DIY Jihad
ROSHONARA Choudhry has been locked up. She tried to murder Stephen Timms by stabbing him. She’s been jailed for life, with a minimum 15 years served. A website called RevolutionMuslim.com says “gifted” Roshonara is an inspiration and wants Muslims to take up “the knife of jihad” (good news: the enemy is down to using knives; we still; have huge guns and jets).
(The Knife of Jihad will join forces with the Spoon of Jihad, the Fork of Jihad, and in an appeal to worldwide militant Islam, the Chopsticks of jihad. But not the Fingers of Jihad – they are just bad manners in anyone’s book – see also teachings on Elbows of Jihad and Talking With Mouthful of Jihad.)
The US- based site wants Muslims to murder 395 MPs who voted for the Iraq war in 2003. It says you can buy a Knife of Jihad for £15 – similar to the one used by Choudhry and thus endorsed by her! – from Tesco Direct.
Says the site:
“We ask Allah for her [Choudhry’s] action to inspire Muslims to raise the knife of jihad against those who voted for the countless rapes, murders, pillages, and torture of Muslim civilians as a direct consequence of their vote.”
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Posted: 5th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (8)
Joel Monoghan Dog Sex Photo: Australian Sports Star In Pet Shame
JOEL Monoghan is the Canberra Raiders player, apparently getting his penis noshed by a large white dog during Canberra’s Mad Monday festivities. It was – as it always must be – a “moment of madness”.
(Any dog fanciers know the breed?)
Joel’s manager Jim Banaghan explains:
“Joel can’t blame anyone but himself for an act of stupidity that will haunt him for the rest of his life… There are no words of explanation that can be offered because none can be appropriate.”
Adding:
“It was a moment of abject stupidity brought about by too much drink and a complete lack of any thought process.
“The fact that someone has sought to compound the situation further by the use of social media only adds to the trauma but Joel accepts that it is his actions alone that are at fault…
“Joel is a genuinely good person who is simply shattered by a moment of sheer madness.”
Says Raiders CEO, Don Furner:
“If he did it, it is something he will live with for the rest of his life.”
The photo is NSFW – click on from Pic 1 if you want to see it:
Posted: 4th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (16)
Drugs Smuggling Tunnels On US-Mexico Border Unites Marijuana And Hezbollah
CALIFORNIA rejects Prop 19, the bid to legalise marijuana for any use, so its back to smuggling weed across the border with Mexico via tunnels.
(Did Hezbollah build the tunnel – they have an outreach centre in Tijuana? Iran is digging into the US. Be afraid!)
The tunnel is 600 yards long and has been used to smuggle 30 tons of marijuana, say the police. At one end is a lockup in Tijuana; the other end is at the Otay Mesa industrial area of San Diego.
The forces who busted the tunnel estimate that it’s been in operation for one month. That’s 30 tons in a month. Had Californians voted to legalise weed, this would have been their own native cash crop. But, still, a chance has been missed. Last month 105 tons of weed was confiscated in Tijuana.
And so it is that one day on from the Pop 19 bill failing, the border police brag about stopping a huge delivery of weed. Coincidence? Maybe.
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Student Fees: Fights In Dublin But It’s T-Shirts In London (Photos)
STUDENTS are revolting in Dublin. There’s a mass demonstration in the city centre outside the Department of Finance buildings off St. Stephens Green. Meanwhile, in London the protest is in the form of Clare Solomon’s T-shirt.
Fists or felt tips? Choose your weapons.
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Posted: 3rd, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Prison Voters Get Chance To Vote For Frauds, Cheats And Liars
PRISONERS will be able to vote for the crooks, vagabonds, charlatans and frauds who make up the House of Commons.
Says one councillor in Birmingham:
“Gone are those dark days of persuading people to lie and cheat to get out man elected. Now we can just tap into a readymade key demographic of liars and cheats.
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Posted: 3rd, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (4)
