I like how this could be subtweeting any number of main characters today.

All I can say is, if you're a working person earning less than £71k who honesly believes benefit claimants are earning that much, quit your job. Go on. What could go wrong?

he died as he lived: listening to some of the shittest music of all time, doing nothing of value and being surrounded by cunts.

The ipcress file is currently on BBC2.

(Also, it winds me up, this eternal framing of tax as a raid on 'people who work hard'. Pretty much EVERYONE I KNOW fucking works hard. They are not all appropriately looked after by society.)

Budget Responsibility is their entire shtick! Couldn't be more irresponsible. Superb.

The great and good have spent the last 20 years decrying Chinese state control of Internet access and now they think it's a great idea if it keeps the dreaded Russians from influencing our pure politics. Dumb cunts.

"Opposition Party's bureaucracy deliberately loses multiple elections and coordinates with media figures to deligitimise their leader" is the kind of lurid fantasy most centrist melts imagine about Russian or Turkish opposition parties, but as always the call is coming from inside the house.

We've disowned him! Doesn't matter how big and Irish his head is. 😁

When I was a Firefighter, we used to have two slices of B & B with every meal. If we got a call during the meal you put whatever is on your plate between the slices and take it with you! Lasagna, stew, pie, curry, you name it I've had it on a butty.

I chose to believe it's about political parties being buses not taxis.

So impressed that, from a huge pool of contenders, you pulled out the Barlow card. Superb.