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becky sharp · Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 6782

....detox Tories

After a week of gaffes, No 10 calls in the Happy Mondays singer who helps to launch a T-shirt campaign to banish 'pastygate' In a move that will astonish both critics and supporters, David Cameron has appointed the controversial Happy Mondays star Shaun Ryder as a special adviser on social class, following a series of political missteps since the budget.

The decision is believed to have been taken after urgent discussions between the so-called Quad group of ministers, comprising Cameron, George Osborne, Nick Clegg and Danny Alexander, the chief secretary to the treasury.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/apr/01/cameron-shaun-ryder-advise-tories?commentpage=all#start-of-comments

Nice one,Observer

Laughing

ruddlescat · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester

If politicians of all parties had any remote understanding of these issues then they shouldn't need to appoint an 'adviser'

As for this particular adviser the appointment smacks of the usual politician's gimmick designed to defuse a potentially difficult situation when in reality little will change Sad

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RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

Ian Robinson · Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:12 am Post subject:

I believe ITV News actually fell for this and re-reported it!

R2Icon · Joined: 10 Sep 2009 Posts: 1444

I was scanning the MoS to find their April Fool Story… I picked out the one about the Asian Long Horn Beetle invading the UKs trees and spent ages laughing my way through it but I’d picked the wrong one- we are being invaded by the Asian Long Horn Beetle- our trees are doomed! It was the piece about Bubbly Tax and George Osborne stocking up on Moet, before the tax comes into force, that was the April Fool. Doh! That one seemed perfectly plausible to me.

becky sharp · Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 6782

ruddlescat · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester

The thing is Becky - if you think about it the suggestion isn't actually as far fetched as some would have us believe - and that's the really frightening thing about it Shocked

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FleetingEileenM · Joined: 30 Mar 2010 Posts: 5742 Location: Hampshire

I've had to Google Shaun Ryder to find out who he is!