In a historic vote today House Republicans lead by John Boner voted to eliminate the artificial poverty line. Typically the poverty rate is considered to be "on average" in the U.S. (and it varies from state to state) $11,440, for one person living a...
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has made a speech at a UN meeting in Liberia, in which he has said that he would like to start a war on poverty. Other attendees at the meeting were mildly disturbed at the announcement, and there were concerns about e...
In the time honoured traditions of Charles Dickens and Dickensian Britain the Royal Mail is launching a scheme designed to make sending this year's greeting cards more affordable to those on lower incomes, in other words, the entire population!
Eb...
In August of 2011 David Cameron said that the government would listen to the almost 2m people who signed a petition against road pricing. Just over a year later the government announce plans to introduce rode pricing by 2015.
"Look we had to prete...
Helloo, this is the Reverend Tougal McDougal of the Prophylactic Church of Scotland in Kirkintilloch. I'd like to talk to you today about poverty.
Poverty can be a terrible blight on a community. Recently in Kirkintilloch we've had a problem with tramps. They come over to the kirk, dressed in rags, drunk aff their tits, sleeping in the grounds. It's quite hard to tell them apart from the local...
NEW YORK, New York - U.S. and European stocks advanced as world leaders decided on Monday to cancel all world debts to start economies over with a clean slate.
The concept of countries cancelling their world debt has been popular among those who s...
Monday 30th July 2012
Topic: Crime - Assault - Stabbing
"Two more teenagers arrested over West Bridgford stabbing"
Source: This is Nottingham
Extract: Two more teenagers have been arrested in connection with a stabbing of a 17-year-old boy at a party in West Bridgford yesterday.
The two 15-year-old boys will be interviewed by officers today.
Police were called to reports of a dis...
Monday 2nd July 2012
Topic: NHS waiting time - QMC - City Hospital
"Waiting times at Nottingham hospitals up by 82%"
Source: Nottingham Post
Extract: THE number of patients waiting longer than four hours in Nottingham's only accident and emergency unit has almost doubled in the past year.
Figures show that 10,831 patients were kept waiting for more than four hours in 2011-12 - a ris...
David Cameron's bank account has been depleted to zero by a Robin Hood Style Computer Hacker. The attack came just 20 minutes after the Tory without a heart declared war on the Under 25s and tiny children who have already been abandoned by their fa...
Sad news out of Greece has reached Spoof headquarters: Greek parents are abandoning their children because of the financial crisis and parents saying that their kids are too expensive.
In the last few weeks many Greek children have been left alone...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - After a year-long undercover investigation that has uncovered thousands of unethical and illegal practices and schemes attributed to the current Food Stamp Program, President Obama has issued a presidential directive eliminating th...
Deluthions, GA. - Fresh off His six percent increase in the national poll numbers, Newt Gingrich giddily announced today that He has achieved His life long dream of cornering the turkey head market.
"Ever since I was sixteen years old I've ha...
The BBC is to strip Children in Need's flagship fundraiser, Pudsey the Bear, of his modesty preserving eyepatch amidst swingeing cuts to the budget for this month's annual broadcast, according to reports.
Pudsey, who sustained the head wound when...
AUSTIN, Tex.--Governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry is proud of Texas, often bragging that it's an economic powerhouse.
Certainly, the numbers don't lie. Perry's Texas ranks 2nd in the nation in GDP and as a state, the Lone Sta...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Times are tough, according to a report today. With 15.1% of the U.S. population now living in poverty, homelessness is becoming an option for more people.
More and more people can't pay the rent with low-paying jobs. The car's be...
Nottingham Councillor Mr I. Likexpences, was interviewed last night by our ancient political reporter Inchcock Chambers.
He asked the Councillor his opinions on the following topics:
Inchock asked: "Your views on the rioting and attacks on 14 police stations in Nottingham?"
Likepences replied: "Not all bad news you know, we have the highest unemployment rate in the country here in Notting...
A woman has requested the borough of Kensington and Chelsea to rehouse her and her family because the house is too big. Elizabeth Windsor and her husband Phillip are said to be shagged out just getting to the breakfast table in the mornings. They are...
Money woes faced by families across the UK are spreading at an unprecedented rate, in what political analysts are calling 'worrying times', say sources close to the analysts that said it.
Vera Bigtits, a full time source, told us "analysts have be...
