{"id":168,"date":"2011-01-25T21:14:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T21:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astarmathsandphysics.com\/tutor_profiles\/paul_smith\/paul_smiths_blog\/?p=168"},"modified":"2011-01-25T21:14:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T21:14:07","slug":"my-application-for-job-as-number-10-press-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2011\/01\/my-application-for-job-as-number-10-press-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"My Application for Job as Number 10 Press Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Dave,
\n I hear you have a vacancy. Apparently your last sidekick didn’t tell lies fast enough or good enough. I would like to bring a new age of honesty to politics, and I will start by calling everyone in and recently turfed out of the House of Commons a bunch of thieves and spivs. You especially, as the leader of the pack, are the biggest spiv of all. <\/p>\n

I understand my job as press officer will be to excuse your theft and incompetence while being paid half a million pounds a year. This I am prepared to do as long as you and your bunch of morons keep the country steered towards a state of bankruptcy and servility to the USA.<\/p>\n

PS I need to be paid in gold or Swiss Francs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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