Asking for it

Asking for it

People in today's news seem to be getting what they deserve.

Farage thought he could shut down the annoying questions about being bunged money by billionaires by forcing a by-election. Instead we have the tantalising prospect of him being undone by the same spirit that made Boaty McBoatface an electoral legend.

Bookmakers have slashed the odds of a regular joke candidate at by-elections to beat Nigel Farage in Clacton after all major parties refused to stand in what they have dubbed a “fake” election.

Go you good electors of Clacton! Make Count Binface your MP!

Couldn't happen to a nicer corrosive populist.

Trump thought he could unload some firepower on Iran and score an easy headline and instead he got himself a quagmire.

Couldn't happen to a nicer enemy of democracy.

Our PM who never stops talking about how hard he works has got himself a robot mower for what sounds like not all that much lawn tbh.

What's wrong with a bit of exercise, champ?
Does everything have to be a shortcut?

Slow down and smell the mown grass, it can do you good!

And now here is today's edition of HEY YOU GUYS, I MOVED.

Firstly, here's the memo, if you missed it.

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Secondly, here's today's quiz, which you can play for its own fun but also for glory.

Current rankings are as follow:

And thirdly, here's a cut-out-and-keep explainer you can show your NewstalkZB-listening friends who have happily swallowed the Labour-borrowed-and-spent-like-drunken-sailors-and-that's-why-the-economy's-fucked contention.

Glossary entry
Watches the world through the rear vision mirror, wonders what we’ve run over, writes about it.

You're welcome, plenty more where that came from, and you may find it helpful for Question 6 in today's quiz.

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