Today’s Question

What took 661 engineers 6 years to build? Answer: the Dyson A.I-controlled toothbrush. Which costs a mere £450.

A dose of truth

Put’n the Poisoner had his tail tweaked by the P.M of India over his unwinnable war against Ukraine. He was told we need move from endless war to the end of war. Not that this is anything the poisoner can do.

Self-harm

Not allowing VAT-free shopping for tourists is preventing £11.5 billions of economic growth and 153,000 jobs, the experts reckon. The extra spending by visitors would make £2.6 billion available to the government to buy benefits votes.

Another early release

Bier Smarmer, the U-turn king, pledged, vowed, promised to serve on as a backbench MP to the next general election. No surprise that he has done another U-ey and he’s going to quit right away after being deposed.

Agenda for disaster

What is the aptly named Jonah Burnbum all about? Reversing the changes made by the Thatcher governments; the ones that took the country out of economic stagnation in the 1980s. Piling on taxes to bloat the benefits budget even more. And betrayal of Brexit, of course.

Selectivity

The Labour plan for reducing the prison population is to prevent the early release of dangerous criminals who have attracted public attention and release other dangerous criminals with a lower public profile. But when the wheels come off that, what?

Like the Jonah Effect?

Could it be that Meta, which used to employ former Trivial Democrap politician of the Coalition era Nick ‘Calamity’ Clegg, will blame him for having to stump up £13 billion to settle claims made in the Untied States that its so-called media harm children?