Iain Duncan Smith has denied trying to impregnate a young jackal.

The welfare secretary was forced onto the defensive amid rumours of an affair involving a senior Tory politician and another unidentified mammal that cannot be named for legal reasons.

Mr Duncan Smith insisted a recent trip to sub-saharan Africa had absolutely nothing to do with a picking out the perfect specimen to take part in a special project.

He added: “I have never had intercourse with a jackal and currently have no plans to do so.

“My recent trips to Africa were about finding out how much money people really need in order to survive. Let’s just say, I was pleasantly surprised…”

Bill McKay, from Stevenage, said: “When I heard a senior Tory had been having an affair, I automatically assumed, like everyone else, that Iain Duncan Smith had been fucking a jackal in a bid to conceive the Dark Lord who will terrorise mankind in a Thousand Year Reign of Fire and Blood.

“I find his denials a tad outlandish.”

way way way good

by guy incognito

over at b3ta.com

after the work for benefits scheme was deemed illegal (forcing people to work for hundreds of hours unpaid, not providing them with the necessary information to claim or protect their benefits whilst on the schemes, those on disability benefits being coerced into work, regardless of what their health issues were) the courts ruled the government should repay the £130 million they owed to people who had been the victims of the scheme.

now duncan smith is pushing through a bill to see that the government doesn’t have to pay this money out

those of you in england, please please take some time to contact your local representative and urge them to vote no on this bill which is being debated on tuesday the 19th of march. if this bill goes through it will not only affect some of the most vulnerable people in the country but continue a precedent for the government to break the law without repercussions, ignoring not just the courts but ultimately the voice of the people they supposedly represent, pushing england down a path that undermines and destroys everything we have achieved in social justice since the Attlee ministry.

crudo-soy:

solent:

fyeaheasterneurope:

Ottawa has launched an unprecedented billboard campaign in the Hungarian city of Miskolc, home of many Roma refugees, trumpeting Canada’s rapid expulsion of failed asylum seekers.

Since last week, the Canadian government has erected six billboards in Hungary’s fourth largest city, proclaiming: “Those people who make a claim without sound reasons will be processed faster and removed faster.”

The $3,000 ad campaign, another attempt to curb the inflow of Roma refugees to Canada, has already created uproar among the Roma community here and there.

In media interviews, Miskolc Mayor Akos Kriza, a member of the governing conservative FIDESZ party, said he was outraged, not because of the billboards’ unwelcoming tone, but because Canada is expecting his city to take back the failed refugees.

“Canada cannot send anyone back to Miskolc,” Akos was quoted in one Hungarian news article. “I will not yield on this point!”

Aladar Horvath, founder of the Civil Liberties Foundation in Hungary, said the campaign will provide further ammunition for ultraright conservatives to justify their racist attacks on the Roma.

“This is unfortunate,” Horvath told the Star from Budapest. “People are angry, disappointed and sad because Canada shows the same discrimination like Hungary.”

…The government said the campaign is to raise awareness of Canada’s new asylum system and to deter abuse. It is part of a broader public education outreach through the use of Internet tools, web banners and a pop-up message that appears on targeted users’ computer screens.

“Virtually all Hungarian asylum claims are abandoned or withdrawn by the claimants themselves, or determined to be unfounded by the independent Immigration and Refugee Board,” said Kenney’s spokesperson Alexis Pavlich.

“Canadians have no tolerance for those who abuse our system and seek to take unfair advantage of our country at great expense to taxpayers.”

(There’s more at the source.)

mindenki fasz.

I can honestly say that I am fucking sick of the goverment we have. I am sickened by the people who voted this party in. Not that the libs were any better, but they weren’t this fucking secretive, racist, and oppressive. FUCK CANADA. Harper is pissing on human rights and all we care about is the fucking NHL. Fuck it fuck. 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/voters-brainwashed-by-tory-welfare-myths-shows-new-poll-8437872.html?origin=internalSearch

this doesn’t even touch on the amount of unclaimed benefit - which is factored into the budget but not actually used

compare benefit fraud to tax fraud and ask which is really affecting our economy

politicians should live on the same wages as those on benefits - only then will we see a system that treats those struggling with finding employment (for whatever reasons) with the compassion, help and financial support they actually need

watching the complete dismantling of the welfare state by the coalition is truly heartbreaking

I suspect that Miller is pro-life. I suspect that abortion repels this healthy, wealthy, influential woman, and she does not understand why any woman would want an abortion, because she has never needed one. Empathy, as ever, is an abstract to this government, a barrier to its ideological commitment to dismantling the state, and demonising those who need it. Women who are suddenly impoverished or vulnerable or very young – they are beyond her understanding, and her brief.

tanya gold - the guardian

another dick move from the tories

i think we need new insults to describe the magnitude of cameron’s sheer ass-holery