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They must not use government documents as toilet paper.<br \/>\nThe BBC is to cut its news coverage by half &#8211; the bad half of the news will not be transmitted any more.<br \/>\nThe Royal family must hold a wrestling tournament to determine which one of them must give up a polo pony. Tickets are to be auctioned and the revenue used&#8230;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ie those countries without a triple A credit rating. The UK has just been downgraded to subprime, subnormal, substandard status. To ensure we don&#8217;t stay substandard for long, the chancellor has announced the following economic measures: All UK citizens must &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2013\/02\/britain-joins-the-ranks-of-the-third-world\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Wm4j-kf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1931,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2014\/07\/gove-stuck-in-commons-toilet\/","url_meta":{"origin":1255,"position":0},"title":"Gove stuck in commons toilet","author":"taxicle","date":"July 17, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"On his first day as government chief whip, some say he locked himself in. 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